If the apparently didactic title of Anthony Howell's book belies the poems in it, that is to be expected of a writer for whom little is what it seems. The law adhered to in "Howell's Law" is the law of surprise. And from the start – a lengthy poem in...

This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Norman Cameron (1905-1953) to appear in Britain. As Jonathan Barker writes in his introduction, it is "the product of the shared transatlantic enthusiasm of Warren Hope and myself for the work of a...

In this unusual selection, one of the great poet-critics of the twentieth century encounters and re-appraises the greatest poet-critic of the nineteenth. William Empson, assisted by David Pirie, chooses from Coleridge's vast and uneven ouevre the sal...

"Poetry World" was the short-lived successor to the original series of "Modern Poetry in Translation". Contents: Stanislaw Baranczak: "Artificial Respiration" – translated by Chris Zielinski Sumerian Poems – Thorkild Jacobsen Amarusataka – Rahul Bon...

With all his contradictions, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the fathers of modern literature and the Duino Elegies one of its great monuments. Begun in 1912 but not completed until 1922, they are "modern" in almost every sense the word has...

"The Intelligence of Clouds" is Stanley Moss's third collection of poems. "We must be grateful to the Anvil Press for importing Stanley Moss", wrote John Fuller of his first, "The Wrong Angel" (1969). Reviewing "Skull of Adam" (1979) in Poetry Review...

Janos Pilinszky (1921-1981) was a unique and compelling voice among the generation of European poets whose work bore first-hand witness to the horrors of war. The distinction of his poetry, as Ted Hughes argues, is both spiritual and artistic: "the d...

This is a book not of memorable lines but of memorable poems. Eavan Boland's poetry is radically different in tone and texture from the work of her Irish contemporaries. Her concerns are never parochial. In 1979 she renounced "the evasion out of fear...

"Fish Magic" introduces the fascinating and individual West German poet Elisabeth Borchers, whose poetry has attracted critical acclaim since its first appearance in 1961. Her poems have the elusive and haunting quality of magic charms. As in the art...