The central focus of "The White Silhouette" is a lyrical, meditative poem inspired by the "Book of Kells", which explores the spirit of medieval Celtic art and its inner and outer landscapes, including those of Iona and Kells. Like Kells's interlacin...

Despite his disingenuous claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, "Urgent Copy" (1968) and "Homage to Qwert Yuiop" (1986); a posthumous collection of occasi...

Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter's face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole – the imagination can translate and transform th...

"Now We Can Talk Openly About Men" is made up of dramatic monologues, in two parts, the first at the time of the Irish War of Independence, the second at the time of the Civil War. Martina Evans uses two distinct narrative voices. First comes Mrs Kat...

Vahni Capildeo's new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. "Venus as a Bear" places the non-human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or stra...

"The Multiverse" sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme, and the poems subtly find their way into memory not only as sense but also as sound...

From the first "New Poetries" anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve nota...

A substantial selection drawn from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing.

A new translation of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age.

First full debut from a promising young poet reflects a risky exploration of the unfamiliar and a search for strangeness, spirituality and stories.