The spare and subtle poems of Nina Bogin's third collection map personal territory – places of memory and love as much as of language and geography. An American writing in her adopted France, in the eastern border region close to Switzerland and Germ...

"What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning..." For Nedim Gursel, the state of exile isn't a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which he, and countless...

Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. From Archimedes' bath to Newton's apple, vivid accounts of scientific discovery help us understand the principles behi...

Kei Miller's work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer Olive Senior as "Some of the most exciting poetry I've read in years... An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace". "A Light Song of Light" sings in the rhythms of r...

The portraits in "Likenesses" attend to how people relate to one another. To settings and things. Husbands and wives, actors and directors, parents and children, a set-designer and his crew, a poet in his landscape, a professor among his books: here...

"The Living Fire" brings together a rich selection of the poetry of Edward Hirsch, from seven books of poetry spanning thirty-five years of writing. A poet who is also a passionate advocate of poetry, and avoracious reader, Hirsch infuses his poetry...

Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as "a writer of great intelligence and vitality who can command a very powerful wry political comment", E. A. Markham was a leading light in British Caribbean writing. He was a poet, novelist and short story writer, ess...

The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ("Geraldine") family that has tilled the...

Peter Pindar (1738-1819), the pen name of John Wolcot, dared to ridicule the foibles, corruptions and misdemeanours of King George III and those in power in his kingdom. His satire was merciless, but Wolcot survived accusations of treason, protected...

This sequence of poems in three voices introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. A man and two women explore their memories in conversational poems which, in their combination...