In "The Hoop", his first book of poems, John Burnside takes his bearings from Celtic mythology and from landscape, especially that of Gloucestershire. "The things that contribute to how I work are botanical texts and drawings, fairy stories, Celtic a...

E. J. Scovell has made her own terms with poetry. She has published only four book-length collections, her first in 1944, though she started writing in the 1920s. This volume reveals that she has not been as "scarce" a poet as her admirers have belie...

A selection of poems from the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart. This book includes his four most famous works.

In F. T. Prince's new poem a visit to Rome brings back memories of fifty years ago, today's graffiti contrasting with Mussolini's slogans. Things seen, a plaque for Stendhal or a chapel with paintings by Caravaggio, are used to suggest young and olde...

George Meredith (1828-1909) is best known as the author of "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways". His poetry, however, notably the poems from "Modern Love", is emerging from long eclipse, and this selection reveals the diversity and originality o...

Thomas Traherne's poems were discovered in London in 1896 and originally assigned in error to Henry Vaughan. Later scholarship has established their true authorship. Traherne (1637-1674) was a remarkable religious writer. The son of a Hereford shoe-m...

The tone of much of this new collection by Donald Justice is autumnal, memorial. These tributes in the form of elegies and homages to the almost forgotten – people and places and times past – constitute an attempt, in the author's words, to "rescue w...

This special edition of poems by Ivan V. Lalic was jointly published by Anvil Press Poetry and Turret Books to mark the occasion of his participation in Poetry Live, May 1987. It is a selection from his book "The Passionate Measure".

"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...

A hundred was "a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court" (OED); the Chiltern Hundreds were the three subdivisions of South Bucks – from west to east, Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last, named after Stoke Poges, is today shared w...