Purabi brings together 52 of Tagore's poems and songs. The collection reveals a very different Tagore from the one the West has come to know, bringing to light a passionate poet who celebrated the wonders of this earth instead of just pondering the m...

Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of "Edw...

This collection of Trakl's essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, "Gedichte" (Poems, 1913) and "Sebastian im Traum" (Sebastian in a Dream, 1914), together with the later poems published in the magazine "Der Brenner" which...

In the great Bengali poet's autobiographical writings we discover what his translators describe as "a heart of love, a mind at its service that can cut like a knife, and in some sense the spirit of a child". The six prose pieces, centering on the poe...

Julian Turner's "Crossing the Outskirts" was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize best first collection. In his second book he explores his familiar themes of identity and loss, and new, more personal ones –...

This quarter-century opened with Janos Kadar exercising a third decade of political power, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of 1956. Hungary, however, was instrumental in the changes of 1989, initiating free elections. The transition to democracy w...

The poems in Charles Tomlinson's new collection celebrate the colours and textures of places, and the people and histories that have created them. "Skywriting" forms a journey through the landscapes of Tomlinson's imagination: Mexico, Italy and Japan...

Charles Tomlinson declares that this book, emerging from the practice, the art and magic of translation, concerns itself with "the way certain fables of metamorphosis have captured the poetic imagination and how translation – literary metamorphosis –...

Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 primarily for this work, parts of which he had rendered into the lucid, grave English prose of prayer. Although he wrote over 40 books of poetry, this is...