Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, an "heroic comedy" of love and honour, has enjoyed various revivals in the cinema and on the stage, and undergoes yet another metamorphosis in this brilliant translation by Edwin Morgan. Made for the Communicado T...

The Count of Lautreamont – a nineteenth-century poet about whom little is known, except that he spent his brief adult life in various hotels in Paris, checking out of his transient existence at the age of 24 – is one of the forgotten presences alive...

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, (1561-1621) is now regarded as one of the considerable poets of her time, and "The Sidney Psalms" as one of the most important but now least-known works of the Elizabethan period. These verse translations of the Psa...

The life and works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) have a perennial fascination for the theatre-going and reading public, and it is surprising that no separate edition of the poetry has been published for decades. Malcolm Hicks provides a generous and tim...

Laura (Riding) Jackson died in 1991 at the age of ninety. "The Poems of Laura Riding" were published in 1938, after which she renounced poetry, an act which still challenges her readers. That volume omitted some two hundred early pieces, all written...

"Forms of Distance" is Bei Dao's second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, Old Snow, as "the work of one of the great poets of our time", and John Cayley wrote in the Times Literary...

Layered with rich insight, this powerful collection of proseprovides an unidealistic stance on homosexualitythat evokes the many landscapes of sensuality and desire.

This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addi...

These writings by David Wright collect his written conversations with friends, most of them fellow poets. Norman Nicolson, C. H. Sisson, George Barker and Charles Causley are among those included. The elegies, written in informal and direct language,...