This is the first translation of Spanish poet Manuel Vilas's two major collections "Heaven" ("El cielo", 2000) and "Heat" ("Calor", 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into freewheeling megalomaniacal fli...

"The Perfect Order" is the first extensive selection of Nasos Vayenas's poems to appear in English. Spanning thirty-six years from 1974 to 2010, it covers every phase of his long and varied writing career – from the first registrations of his poetic...

How can language retrieve memories and identities? A young man, a first-generation American, explores a true story of three generations of upheaval, migration and homecoming. Rooted in autobiography and in twentieth-century Armenian history, it is al...

This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello's poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello's "Time of a Flower" (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems from his later books. Vianello's exceptional lyric gif...

Paul Valery's most celebrated collection Charmes was first published in 1922. It contains several of his most famous poems, including "ebauche d'un serpent" and "Le cimetiere marin" – in Yvor Winters' view "the two greatest short poems ever written"....

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) wrote three secret collections of verse, of which "Femmes and Hombres" remained almost unobtainable even in France until the 1970s. These strangely unrespectable poems celebrate the pleasures of sex, with women and men respe...

Francois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution and ill health, robbery and murder, torture and exile. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, the poems he produced in just six years capture in...