When C. H. Sisson was 20, he gave up writing poems. He began once more in his 30s under the stress of war-time, stationed in India. Verse came intermittently, exiguously; the bulk of his early writing in translation ("fishing in other men's waters" h...

These translations were completed in the 1960s and 1970s. "We were trying to make poems in English which, to whatever extent in different cases proved possible, would provide equivalents to the effects of the Russian and German originals. I emphasize...

"The Errancy" is a pensive and erotic new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Dream of the Unified Field". In these poems Jorie Graham approaches a number of numinous characters, each an embodiment of sexual, emotional, political...

"A Season in Granada" brings together poems, essays and excerpts from letters by the great twentieth-century poet Federico Garcia Lorca, including two sequences of poems and an essay previously unpublished in English. The writings form a dazzling, el...

"Little by little the idea of the true way returned to me", John Ashbery writes early in his new collection. Each sense is wakened up. So are all the spirits. Many whispers, voices chantant dans la coupole: passions, leaves, loves, flutes, insects, p...

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W. H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, af...

In the twelve years since Peter Bland's last collection, "The Crusoe Factor", was published by London Magazine "Editions", the poet has not been idle. Setting the best of his earlier work, long unavailable, beside a full volume of new poems, he lets...