The Stinking Rose is one of the names for a plant that arouses strong feelings: garlic. No one is neutral about it. Sujata Bhatt explores the various mythologies and the magical and practical aspects of garlic in a sequence of twenty-five parts, is a...

Building on the explorations and discoveries initiated in "A Journey" and pursued in "Outside History", the author brings her poems up more immediately than ever against the social and political realities of her Ireland. This book is a Poetry Book So...

Four hundred and fifty years ago, on 23 September 1543, three Portuguese merchants travelling on a Chinese junk were blown by a storm onto the south-western tip of Japan. So at last was discovered to the West that fabled country which Marco Polo repo...

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...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's most admired and popular poets. Her delicate, subtle and pointed poetry has gained her a large readership at home, where she has received the highest literary awards. Her poetry is direct, personal and uncompromising...

"Outside History" was Eavan Boland's first collection of new poems since "The Journey" (1987). Here she explores private themes, but in ways which open out on the wider public sphere. Often the poems arise from the place in which womanhood and natio...

This is a book not of memorable lines but of memorable poems. Eavan Boland's poetry is radically different in tone and texture from the work of her Irish contemporaries. Her concerns are never parochial. In 1979 she renounced "the evasion out of fear...

"Fish Magic" introduces the fascinating and individual West German poet Elisabeth Borchers, whose poetry has attracted critical acclaim since its first appearance in 1961. Her poems have the elusive and haunting quality of magic charms. As in the art...