"Forms of Distance" is Bei Dao's second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, Old Snow, as "the work of one of the great poets of our time", and John Cayley wrote in the Times Literary...

Webster's Dictionary defines a "flow-chart" as a "schematic diagram... showing the progress of materials through the various stages of a manufacturing process". In this "Flow Chart", a book-length poem, John Ashbery charts the ebb and flow of life p...

"Fish Magic" introduces the fascinating and individual West German poet Elisabeth Borchers, whose poetry has attracted critical acclaim since its first appearance in 1961. Her poems have the elusive and haunting quality of magic charms. As in the art...

"Fields of Focus" is Robin Fulton's first collection of poetry since his "Selected Poems" 1963-1978, and brings together poems written between 1974 and 1979. Like his previous work, this volume centres on themes of time and space and on the precariou...

Peter Levi's first book since "Collected Poems 1955-1975" contains his poems written between spring 1975 and winter 1977. Of his "Collected Poems 1955-1975", John Heath-Stubbs wrote in The Tablet: "His is certainly one of the most authentic and origi...