The title of the American poet John Matthias's second English volume suggests both continuity and change. The first two sections continue the idiom of "Turns" (1975) and include many poems on English themes. The two concluding sequences chart voyages...

Matthew Mead's third collection of verse follows "Identities" (1967) and "The Administration of Things" (1970). In his own words, his is "a quiet voice for quiet rooms" – but the voice is distinct and compels attention. As Richard Holmes wrote of his...

"Selected Poems" draws on all the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points. It represents the poet's own distillation of the first two decades of her writing – the poems which established her as one of the most passionate and precise...

Marvell's oeuvre must be one of the smallest of any major English poet, but that he is a major poet is no longer contested. Very little is known of his life: he was born in 1621, in Yorkshire; he tutored the daughter of the parliamentarian general Th...

This is the late Geoffrey Holloway's third collection of verse, following "To Have Eyes" (Anvil, 1972) and "Rhine Jump" (London Magazine Editions, 1974; a Poetry Book Society Choice). "All I Can Say" is a wide selection of his poems from many years o...

In John Digby's third book, as in "Sailing Away from Night", his poems are complemented with his very distinctive collages – in this book, all based on birds and animals. John Digby's work in collage began as an extension of his surreal poetry; in bo...

Peter Levi's first book since "Collected Poems 1955-1975" contains his poems written between spring 1975 and winter 1977. Of his "Collected Poems 1955-1975", John Heath-Stubbs wrote in The Tablet: "His is certainly one of the most authentic and origi...

Former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion's first collection of poems was published by Carcanet more than thirty years ago, in 1978. Its subjects are politics, relationships, geographies and the inescapable legacies of the past. The sequences "Inland" and...

Revewing Sally Purcell's first collection of poems "The Holly Queen" (1971), Clive Wilmer spoke of "the ghostly music" and "diamantine elegance" of her poetry. These qualities are evident in this collection which continues to explore the mysteries of...