C. H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a generous selection of his poems, translations and essays. The poems are drawn from all periods of Sisson's writing life, from the darkly satirical work of th...

"The Canals of Mars" begins with a poem elegising the poet's father and welcoming his newborn son. It concludes with a moment in which everything "is finished and about to happen". Patrick McGuinness's poems in this powerful first collection sharply...