Heinz Winfried Sabais's poetry first appeared in English translation by Ruth and Matthew Mead in 1968. Reviewing Generation and other poems in "Tribune", Richard Burns wrote: "Whether he is concerned with public statement or private emotion, Sabais r...

Asa Benveniste's most extensive collection of poems draws from his earlier books and from his previously unpublished work, with a nod (as the subtitle implies) in the direction of poems yet to be written. Lyrical, surrealistic, serious and funny, his...

This book brings together Anthony Howell's previously uncollected poems written between 1964 and 1982. His early collections of poems "Inside the Castle" (1969) and "Imruil" (1970) established him as one of our most talented new voices, a view which...

Attempted love and sexual identity form the recurring themes of W. G. Shepherd's third collection of poems. As in his previous books, "Sun, Oak, Almond, I" (1970) and "Evidences" (1980), he writes searchingly in a variety of styles, lyric, narrative...

Alan Marshfield's first major collection brings together poems written over twenty years. As the title implies many of his poems relate, however obliquely, to an idea of the feminine. Male and female polarities set the imaginative field in which he e...

"Fields of Focus" is Robin Fulton's first collection of poetry since his "Selected Poems" 1963-1978, and brings together poems written between 1974 and 1979. Like his previous work, this volume centres on themes of time and space and on the precariou...

Tony Connor left school at fourteen and worked as a textile designer in Manchester for many years. He finds his poems among the affections and troubles of everyday experience rather than in the esoteric or the literary. Yet he possesses a subtle sens...

"Airborn" is a bilingual sequence of sonnets written jointly by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz and his English fellow poet and translator Charles Tomlinson. In their forewords the poets explain how the poems came to be written and translated. As Charle...

Robert Henryson (?-1508) is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the "Moral Fables" is distinctively that of his place – Scotland – and his chosen tradition. His debt to Chaucer, from whom...