In the five volumes of poetry he has published since 1989, Peter McDonald explores an intimately known territory that becomes strange: pulled out of shape by history, made unfamiliar by distance, made new by the attentive imagination. McDonald's "Col...

In "Ice" Gillian Clarke turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. The poem "Polar" is the poet's point de repere, evo...

"Overwintering" is coming through, emerging into the light of a new season. Pippa Little's book explores what survives and grows from the dark energies of winter, night and loss, from the buried past and the imagination's depths. Landscapes speak of...

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sa...

Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his vers...

In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody i...

Elves make magic for a poor shoemaker and his wife in this much-loved tale originally told by the Brothers Grimm.

When a brother and sister lost in the woods come upon a tempting gingerbread house, they can't resist entering. Little do they realise that inside lives a witch and she thinks they'd make a delicious dinner! Lavishly illustrated and lovingly retold,...

Fee, fi, fo, fum! When Jack plants a packet of seeds, they grow into an enormous beanstalk. Soon he's off on a magical, dangerous adventure. Children love this story of a clever boy who manages to outwit a big, strong giant and claim a golden goose.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. When a beautiful girl imprisoned by an enchantress meets a handsome prince, her long hair is the only means of escape, if she can fool the witch. Lavishly illustrated, lovingly retold, these new Silver Penny St...