Treatise on the "Arte of Limning" is one of the most important documents in the history of English art. Published in paperback for the first time, this edition provides a transcript of the original manuscript copy facing a modernised version, extensi...

An introductory anthology of ten new poets who had previously only appeared in poetry magazines. Many have gone on to further publication and established reputations. Poets included: Shirley Bell Patricia Doubell Mimi Khalvati Felicity Napier Bibhu...

"At the Window" is Heather Buck's first full-length collection of poems, many of which have appeared in magazines over the past ten years. A clear personal voice speaks from these poems, which recount an inward journey through pain, loss, fear and th...

This selection from Peter Russell's work of many years illustrates the range of a poet who, in Kathleen Raine's words, has "kept faith (as did his master Ezra Pound) with what is perhaps the greatest imaginative and philosophical conception of the Eu...

"Airborn" is a bilingual sequence of sonnets written jointly by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz and his English fellow poet and translator Charles Tomlinson. In their forewords the poets explain how the poems came to be written and translated. As Charle...

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...

Matthew Mead's second collection of poems will hold the attention of all who found in his "Identities" (1967) an exciting consummation of his concern with "our time", with poetic experiment, and with "the single poetic theme". "His poems speak soberl...

This book has two purposes. The first is to entertain, by presenting a story told in vivid images. The second purpose is to satirise, with the seriousness and occasional ferocity with belong to that style of writing. The novel focuses on three Englis...