The earliest poems in John Welch's first full-length collection are short poems written in the late sixties. In the seventies his writing became more consciously experimental, as in the "Grieving Signal" poems, but without losing sight of a proper hu...

This selection from Peter Russell's work of many years illustrates the range of a poet who, in Kathleen Raine's words, has "kept faith (as did his master Ezra Pound) with what is perhaps the greatest imaginative and philosophical conception of the Eu...

"Things Common", Properly is a major retrospective collection of Peter Whigham's poems and verse translations. The selection contains all the poems which he wishes to keep in print, and includes the whole of "The Blue Winged Bee", which was a Poetry...

"What poetry must do", Jane Cooper has written, "is alert us to a truth, and it must be necessary; once it exists, we realize how much we needed exactly this". "Scaffolding" presents Jane Cooper's new and selected poems gathered over three and a half...

"Northern Summer" is a representative selection from John Matthias's previous books, together with a group of poems written since 1980. Robert Duncan wrote of his first book, Bucyrus, that in part "Matthias is a Goliard – one of those wandering souls...

"Lost and Found" contains Harry Guest's work written during 1975-1982. "At their best Harry Guest's poems are outstanding for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion", John Cotton wrote in "P...

Over forty new poems in verse and prose make up "A Wave", John Ashbery's tenth collection. The title poem is a twenty-page meditation on change, loss and adjustment; it is a major poem that takes place alongside "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and...

Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her "Goblin Market and Other Poems" (1862) having been – as if by accident – the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best poems....

In "Later On" F. T. Prince brings together three contrasting long poems written since 1980: "The Yuan Chen Variations", which are inspired by the Chinese T'ang Dynasty poet Po Chu-i, "His Dog and Pilgrim", an account of the legend of St Rock told fro...