Will Eaves' first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience – of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, enjoying the natural world in all its nearness and remoteness – provides his them...

In these 99 meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking – a pair of scissors, perhaps – is both a small, human v...

The opening poems of the Cork-born writer's fourth collection draw on stories from her Irish childhood, tales of the impact of the Black and Tans on her family's locality in the 1920s. The heady brew of Irish politics and religion is close to the sur...

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as "one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems". It can be se...

This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his developme...

Martina Evans's third collection of poems begins and ends in the dentist's chair. In between come stories ranging from an Irish childhood to present-day London, featuring voices from the poet's own to those of her family, her cat, and a supporting ca...

In the food chain, language is the harrier. How it craves young breath. Yn y gadwyn fwyd iaith ydyw'r boda ac mae'n rhaid cael cnawd ac anadlu ifanc os yw'r heliwr am fyw. from Gwyneth Lewis, "Ewyllys yr Iaith" / "The Language's Will and Testament"...

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) was known to his contemporaries as "the most accomplished gentleman of his age", noble learned and elegant. A man of his time, at the centre of the dangerous power games of the court of Henry VIII, Surrey was...

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".

Martina Evans's new collection mines the rich seam running between rural Ireland and urban England, between personal and folk memory, and between fiction and reality. These are poems that simultaneously engage with the real world, while keeping a lin...