Sturla or arson is one of only a handful of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be known by name, and he is certainly one of the most significant.
This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "e;poem of place"e; in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect.
Step into the dark and gripping world of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a timeless psychological thriller that challenges the very notions of guilt, morality, and redemption.
In this, her twelfth collection, noted poet Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, with poems steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands.
"e;Full of life: politicially astute, well-made and formally experimental poems celebrate even sadness in fresh language, natural rhythms and subtle music.
'Cusp', this new collection from Graham Mort, features many of the qualities readers have come to admire; keen observation, a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances the human interactions in his poems, the sense of the individual as part of a larger society of which we are implicitly responsible.
Already well-known for his prizewinning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, and for his scholarly non-fiction, Grahame Davies has now produced his first collection of poems in English.
With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford Davies's Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-seventeenth century.
Here is the best of Sheenagh Pugh's early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning 'M.
"e;Through the use of deadpan humour, lightning wit and a commitment to poking fun at pomposity, Bryony Littlefair's poems show us what the world is really like.
'A poet who instinctively sees the possibilities of defamiliarisation wherever she casts her penetrating, colour-loving eye' (Carol Rumens, Guardian)'Her poems wrestle at the interface between self and other and from the heat of that fight she forges startlingly original imagery' (Poetry London)re:Loudness '.