"He avoids the pipes. He has his reasons. He has heard the story Of the octopus who was locked into a room For a week to practice. When they let him out the pipes had learned To play the octopus. The thing about musicians is They respond to glory"....

In "The Alexandra Sequence" John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the "mummers play", a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpo...

"Below the tree free-riding on the water a shadow plays, beguiling, ripe for idolatry. I believe the tree and note it down as the answer to its own question". Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape,...

Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the "Number Poems" abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welto...

The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet.

"Selected Poems" gathers writing from four decades of ?Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time. The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Blo...

Forty-four years after their first publication, Edwin Morgan's versions of the great twentieth-century Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky are back in print. Wi the haill voice collects twenty-five of Morgan's translations into Scots, accompanied by...

"What Must Happen" is Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date, recalling lost parents, relations and friends. Shared childhood memories, and the history of hometown Stoke-on-Trent, connect Wainwright's personal them...

Three psychogeographical sequences exploring Queneau's Oulipian "quennets".

Abdellatif Laabi is the most important contemporary Moroccan poet, editor, novelist, translator and public intellectual. From 1972 to 1980 Laabi was imprisoned for his peaceful activism against the repressive regime of Hassan II; he was adopted as an...