This is the first extensive collection of Philip Sherrard's poetry. Highly regarded for his verse translations of such poets as Cavafy, Elytis, Seferis and Sikelianos, he has previously published only two booklets of poetry. He has a fine lyric gift,...

Peter Sansom's "Everything You've Heard is True" (Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 1990) was a notable debut. "The Times" declared the poems on his Nottinghamshire childhood "as good as Tony Harrison's adventures in a similar vein", celebrating "a...

Sue Stewart's first collection introduces a poet of lyric intensity who writes with a vivid aural and visual imagination. Her poems effortlessly bridge the real, the surreal and the mythic as they engage with both personal life and the natural world,...

Norm's wry, expansive poems tell stories, and his characters, ancient and modern – prophets, emperors and cabbies -address the old, unanswered questions with their lives, their failures and losses, their unanticipated moments of love. He shares the s...

The worries many people have about the Church of England and its future are not confined to the matters most hotly debated in Synod. C. H. Sisson does not pretend to have answers. What he does, in pieces which range over more than four decades, is to...

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...

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.

When he was twenty, C. H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. He was brought face-to-face with a realty of politics largely ignored by English radicals of the 1930s. He returned home at once more European and more viv...

"In Two Minds" advances a single argument: that reading and writing are collaborative ventures with past and future. Tradition is a living resource. Sisson considers literary vocation, the act of reading, the practice of real criticism and the comed...

E. J. Scovell has made her own terms with poetry. She has published only four book-length collections, her first in 1944, though she started writing in the 1920s. This volume reveals that she has not been as "scarce" a poet as her admirers have belie...