Frank Kuppner's seventh Carcanet collection, consisting of three books in one, asks the big questions: What is reality a commentary on? Why does non-existence have such a huge opinion of itself? Why don't the eternal silences of space shut up and giv...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was, as T. S. Eliot recognised, a supreme ballad-maker, a storyteller who relished the adventures and characters encountered in the wide world, and a man whose sympathies lay with those whose work and dedication sustained...

A nature poet by inclination, Sidney Keyes was drawn to the work of Holderlin and Rilke, taking them – paradoxically – to war against the Germans. They draw out his essentially Wordsworthian temperament; he was also touched by the very different imag...

Within this collection of her poetry, Mimi Khalvati weaves themes rooted in her childhood home, the British Isle of Wight. Through poetry she considers the houses in which she lived, the past coming into focus, and the most memorable feature of the i...

Thomas Kinsella stands apart in modern Irish poetry. His work, employing traditional and modernist elements in individual poems and open sequences, deals in a range of subjects from the most intense and psychic privacy to political satire and social...

"Un Tour d'Ecosse" provides a vision of Scotland from the handlebars of the ecologically friendly machine the French call "la petite reine". Here are poems of loss and desire, poems in Scots and English and poetry in English about Scots. There is an...

Volume 22 in the Peppercanister series, this volume features poems by Thomas Kinsella. It includes the poems "Complaint", "Migrant", "Close of Day" and "House Guest".

The bewildering range of the Scottish writer Frank Kuppner's work, as evidenced in the ten books he published in the last century, is such that many people did not know where to start. Here, for them, is the obvious place to do so, at least where his...

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...

Music is the motif which underlies the poems in Marius Kociejowski's second book. In "Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin's Sonata in B minor", a musical theme illustrates the solitude of a troubled woman "who is no man's, only music's bride"; elsewhere, music...