Edgell Rickword (1898-1982), one of the great radical editors and critics of the century, was a poet whose three volumes and a scattering of layer poems merit the accolade of The Times Literary Supplement: he is the best English poet between Eliot an...

An introductory anthology of ten new poets who had previously only appeared in poetry magazines. Many have gone on to further publication and established reputations. Poets included: Shirley Bell Patricia Doubell Mimi Khalvati Felicity Napier Bibhu...

Tu Fu (AD 712-770) is China's greatest classical poet. He radically altered the poetry of the High T'ang period; in addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all asp...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's most admired and popular poets. Her delicate, subtle and pointed poetry has gained her a large readership at home, where she has received the highest literary awards. Her poetry is direct, personal and uncompromising...

"Outside History" was Eavan Boland's first collection of new poems since "The Journey" (1987). Here she explores private themes, but in ways which open out on the wider public sphere. Often the poems arise from the place in which womanhood and natio...

This comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame-workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christ...

Clare records that it was "a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stock a piece of greensward full of field flowers & place it a an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are called Midsummer Cushions". This "cottage custom" suggeste...