Mimi Khalvati's "Selected Poems" draws on her three Carcanet collections, "In White Ink" (1991), "Mirrorwork" (1995) and "Entries on Light" (1997). It provides us with the essential Khalvati, from the ambitiously wrought early formal poems, full of P...

In "The Sound of Light" John Heath-Stubbs, now in his eighties, gives us a coherent, shaped, celebratory volume on an antique model and scale, revealing once more how inexhaustible and adaptable forms – traditional and free verse – can be when handle...

We are inside a pre-biotic chemical reaction some 4,500 million years ago, as it suddenly forms a membrane and becomes a prokaryot cell. Then a eukaryot cell. Then a multicellular organism. That's for the first chapter, and from the cell's viewpoint....

Celebrating D. J. Enright's 70th birthday, this selection made, with advice by the poet himself, is the ideal introduction to the work of a man considered by the New York Times "to be quite simply the funniest poet alive".

This selection, made by Peter Scupham himself, brings together work from his eight individual collections, from his first book, "The Snowing Globe" in 1972 to his latest, "Watching the Perseids" in 1990

The life of Sergeant Roger Lamb, a young Dubliner who served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the American War of Independence, was the subject of a novelistic enterprise originally published in two parts because of war time paper shortages. The...

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) is a latter-day Jacobean, the author of blank verse plays and poems which are as bold, wild and fresh as they are archaic in manner. We read his plays less for character and drama than for the miracles that occur in...

Isaac Watts (1674-1748) has been sung by almost everyone whose first language is English, but read by only a few. The time has come to challenge that neglect. This book presents a selection of Watts's poems, showing that he was a consummate artist a...

Robert Minhinnick's is amongst the major voices of modern Wales. His "Selected Poems" draws on six collections published between 1978 and 1994. Several uncollected pieces are also included. The earlier poems are diverse: descriptions of work in heavy...

Andrew Young's poetry came into its own in the mid-1930s. He was nearly fifty when he achieved the terse, individual style of his maturity. Despite changes of fashion he remains popular; his unusual nature poems are widely anthologised. "His works ar...