The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose "Selected Poems" was published in Britain in Karen Leeder's brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with "All Under One Roof", a wide-ranging selection from her radical r...

From the first "New Poetries" anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve nota...

Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, "Poetry" magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here", which has invited readers "from outside the...

Called "the master of the poetic one-liner" by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignan...

From "Let Me Hear You": Outside is inside now The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into...

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From the canals of St Petersburg, the steppes of Central Asia, the mountains of the Caucasus, and the landscape of Palestine, this collection from award-winning Russian poet Sergey Stratanovsky is overtly conscious of the continuing dislocations and...

H?kan Sandell's "Dog Star Notations" is the first selection available in English from one of contemporary Sweden's finest poets. Since abandoning a university education decades ago, Sandell has resolutely gone his own way, drawing on any tradition th...

Writing in the long Bengali tradition exemplified by Rabindranath Tagore and Sukumar Ray, Annada Shankar Ray created poetry of ingenious rhyme and sound patterns, startling yet apt metaphors and descriptions, and dazzlingly imaginative subjects that...

In her foreword to "All The Poems" (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, "Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write 'poetic' prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my perceptions of even...