A "New Selected Poems" of Vernon Watkins – major, neglected poet – 100 years after his birth. Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) was called by Kathleen Raine: "the greatest lyric poet of my generation". Dylan Thomas referred to him as: "the most profound an...

Mark Ford's "The New York Poets": an anthology, selections from the work of John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, provided an exhilarating introduction to the innovations of the "New York school". "New York Poets II" celebrate...

Ten years ago Carcanet published Eavan Boland's first Collected Poems, a book which confirmed her place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. "The New Collected Poems" brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding "The Lost Land" (1998)...

Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary l...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), one of the greatest German-language poets, is among the key figures in modern Western literature. "The Neue Gedichte" (New Poems of 1907-8 are some of the freshest and most accessible of his works. For some months duri...

This collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse... Travellers pass along these ways, in the darkness, in transi...

For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competi...

George Oppen's "New Collected Poems" gathers all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-1984). It adds previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. One of America's most vigorous modernists, he was a member of th...

One of the greatest poets of the subcontinent, Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) redefined the parameters of Bengali poetry in the wake of the impression left by the work of his more traditional compatriot, Rabindranath Tagore. Idiosyncratic in style and w...

The lyric and satirical muses have kept busy with Les Murray. "Subhuman Redneck Poems", awarded the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, Dog Fox Field (1991), "Translations from the Natural World" (1993) and "Conscious and Verbal" (1999) are added to his expanded...