Tom Lowenstein's first full-length book of poems shows his development from meditative and hermetic earlier poems, through formalism to a mode of controlled ironic wildness, in which he explores in concrete detail the fantasies that emerge from metap...

This volume brings together Peter Levi's early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are "Five Ages" (1978), "Private Ground" (1981), "The Echoing Green" (1983), "Th...

"A House Against the Night" collects Harry Guest's poems written mainly during 1969-73 – the latter part of his time in Japan, and the first two years since his return to England.

The second collection of a major American poet. Of her previous collection of poems, "Firstborn", published in England in 1969, John Fuller wrote in The Listener: "Her words are alive and her perceptions have strength. This is a very genuine and enjo...

Although The Brontes have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne...

"Turns" is the American poet John Matthias's second collection of poems (Bucyrus appeared in America in 1971), and his first to be published in England. Many of the poems in "Turns" were first printed in English magazines, and his work has strong Eng...

In the four years between the appearance of his first collection of poems in 1961 and his death at the age of forty-eight, Johannes Bobrowski gained lasting international recognition as the outstanding East German poet of his time. He received major...

This booklet contains early poems, mostly written in 1968, by the brilliant editor of Carcanet Press and "PN Review". Born in Mexico in 1947, he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He has published several critical books and collections...

Most of the poems in this first collection were written during his time as a student at Oxford.