Marvell's oeuvre must be one of the smallest of any major English poet, but that he is a major poet is no longer contested. Very little is known of his life: he was born in 1621, in Yorkshire; he tutored the daughter of the parliamentarian general Th...

This is the late Geoffrey Holloway's third collection of verse, following "To Have Eyes" (Anvil, 1972) and "Rhine Jump" (London Magazine Editions, 1974; a Poetry Book Society Choice). "All I Can Say" is a wide selection of his poems from many years o...

In John Digby's third book, as in "Sailing Away from Night", his poems are complemented with his very distinctive collages – in this book, all based on birds and animals. John Digby's work in collage began as an extension of his surreal poetry; in bo...

Peter Levi's first book since "Collected Poems 1955-1975" contains his poems written between spring 1975 and winter 1977. Of his "Collected Poems 1955-1975", John Heath-Stubbs wrote in The Tablet: "His is certainly one of the most authentic and origi...

Former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion's first collection of poems was published by Carcanet more than thirty years ago, in 1978. Its subjects are politics, relationships, geographies and the inescapable legacies of the past. The sequences "Inland" and...

Revewing Sally Purcell's first collection of poems "The Holly Queen" (1971), Clive Wilmer spoke of "the ghostly music" and "diamantine elegance" of her poetry. These qualities are evident in this collection which continues to explore the mysteries of...

Tom Lowenstein's first full-length book of poems shows his development from meditative and hermetic earlier poems, through formalism to a mode of controlled ironic wildness, in which he explores in concrete detail the fantasies that emerge from metap...

This volume brings together Peter Levi's early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are "Five Ages" (1978), "Private Ground" (1981), "The Echoing Green" (1983), "Th...

"A House Against the Night" collects Harry Guest's poems written mainly during 1969-73 – the latter part of his time in Japan, and the first two years since his return to England.

The second collection of a major American poet. Of her previous collection of poems, "Firstborn", published in England in 1969, John Fuller wrote in The Listener: "Her words are alive and her perceptions have strength. This is a very genuine and enjo...