The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose "Selected Poems" was published in Britain in Karen Leeder's brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with "All Under One Roof", a wide-ranging selection from her radical r...

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...

Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.

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...

"As When" spans the range of Tom Raworth's poetry to date, and includes work omitted from his "Collected Poems" (2003) as well as poems previously only issued as fugitive cards and broadsides. This edition of Tom Raworth's poems is beautifully arrang...

"An Aviary of Small Birds" is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after long labour, the baby's heart gives out. Howeve...

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel "A Hero of Our Time". But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living poet. He achieved almost instant fame in 183...

"A poem must say something that is true, in the same way that a scientific article makes true assertions. And, similarly, these assertions must not be trivial, they should appeal to the emotions of the reader" – Nachoem M. Wijnberg in an interview T...

"All Just", David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcement...

James Harpur's fifth collection journeys into realms seen and unseen, ranging from the landscapes of Ireland to the visionary realms of the mystics. Through the finely textured music of his poems, he explores emotional and spiritual intimacies while...