August Kleinzahler says, "Christopher Middleton is, and remains, a shocking man. One hardly knows where to begin..." There are few risks Middleton will not take in his poems. For six decades and more he has uncovered new dimensions in language. The l...

Christopher Middleton's "Collected Poems" gathers over half a century's inventive, brilliant writing by one of Britain's genuinely Modern poets. Here is an English writer, a European sensibility, of exhilarating originality and passion. His concerns,...

In "The Anti-Basilisk" Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write "The Masque of Anarchy", reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a clarity that dazzles. Bruno Schulz in 1937 made...

The Word Pavilion is a dazzling construction: two-tiered, each tier divided into sections which, while they harmonise with one another, constitute structures in them-selves. To a selection of 110 poems from his eight earlier books, Middleton adds the...

Christopher Middleton has been making translations for more than forty years: translation is part of his own poetic project, and he brings us with generous authority poetry from German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and others, and from m...