Edgell Rickword (1898-1982), one of the great radical editors and critics of the century, was a poet whose three volumes and a scattering of layer poems merit the accolade of The Times Literary Supplement: he is the best English poet between Eliot an...

This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Norman Cameron (1905-1953) to appear in Britain. As Jonathan Barker writes in his introduction, it is "the product of the shared transatlantic enthusiasm of Warren Hope and myself for the work of a...

"The Covenant" contains Dick Davis's poems written since 1979. It is his third collection, following "In the Distance" (1975) and "Seeing the World" (1980), which received the Royal Society of Literature Award under the W. H. Heinemann Bequest in 198...

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 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...

The title of the American poet John Matthias's second English volume suggests both continuity and change. The first two sections continue the idiom of "Turns" (1975) and include many poems on English themes. The two concluding sequences chart voyages...

This volume brings together Peter Levi's early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are "Five Ages" (1978), "Private Ground" (1981), "The Echoing Green" (1983), "Th...