Receiving a call from the State Department that her daughter Pearl has been protesting global violence by chaining herself to a flagpole at the American embassy in Dublin and refusing to eat, liberal New Yorker and single mother Maria Meyers heads to...

Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, one of Australia's best-loved poets, writes in "Rondo" a book that distils his life-long themes of nature, time and love; he is civilised but also relentless in his dedication to "troubling the stubborn world for meaning".

"Errant" is Israeli poet Gabriel Levin's sixth collection. It is a book of riddles by an imagination whose fate is that of the wanderer who keeps waking up and watching the dream vanish just before he can quite grasp it.

In the spirit of a flaneur, the poet goes about her daily life in and around Paris, with an eye for the diversity of human experience in a great city. A new collection from award-winning Canadian poet Beverley Bie Brahic.

A fourth collection by a Cheshire-born, Yorkshire resident poet who combines poetic skill, deep thought and feeling in poetry that grows out of his social work and his sense of a self-impoverishing world.

Christine Marendon grew up in Bavaria with German and Italian as her languages; she is a significant translator as well as a radical eco-poet, keenly aware of social issues. This collection is translated into English by the leading UK translator Ken...

Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar's poetry has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His new book wonderfully recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have occurred before.

John F. Deane's poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins and R. S. Thomas. Like theirs, his concerns are...

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...