An eye for detail informs these poems by Anthony Howell. The book charts his wanderings from Hampshire to Australia, and finally to Sicily. His renewed interest in the description of emotional as well as geographical landscape is one of the pleasures...

Philip Holmes's third book centres on a sequence of poems about the Swaledale lead mines in Yorkshire and those who lived, worked, stayed or emigrated to America from there. These poems, and three other groups which complete the collection – poems in...

Part of the "A and R Modern Poets" series, this title contains selections from the work of A. D. Hope, chosen by David Brooks. Hope has also written "Collected Poems" and "Orpheus".

David Hartnett's first collection introduces a poet with an assured voice and a strong and subtle technique. His poems deal with the fragility and tenaciousness of our relationships, both with others and with the natural order, in the present and the...

This book brings together Anthony Howell's previously uncollected poems written between 1964 and 1982. His early collections of poems "Inside the Castle" (1969) and "Imruil" (1970) established him as one of our most talented new voices, a view which...

Robert Henryson (?-1508) is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the "Moral Fables" is distinctively that of his place – Scotland – and his chosen tradition. His debt to Chaucer, from whom...

This is the late Geoffrey Holloway's third collection of verse, following "To Have Eyes" (Anvil, 1972) and "Rhine Jump" (London Magazine Editions, 1974; a Poetry Book Society Choice). "All I Can Say" is a wide selection of his poems from many years o...

Most of the poems in this first collection were written during his time as a student at Oxford.