In these novellas Adelaida Garcia Morales explores sensitive territory, and her narrators observe it with the adolescent's amoral clarity. "In The South", Adriana's sad enigmatic father presents her with his own suicide on her fifteenth birthday. Sh...

In "Walking Out of the World", triolets, quatrains and villanelles are interspersed with finely modulated free verse, culminating in the striking sequence "The Sentences of Death". Mead's curiously fascinating poems, with their beguiling echoes of th...

"The Revolutionary Art of the Future" is a selection from three hundred poems by Hugh MacDiarmid discovered by John Manson in the archives of the National Library of Scotland in 2003. This is the first time many of them have appeared in print. The...

In October 1879, Mallarme's eight year old son Anatole died after months of illness. Mallarme's letters tell nothing of the 210 sheets of pencilled notes towards a poem about this death, and they did not appear in his lifetime. When first published i...

Early one morning in London – on Boxing Day – a minicab driver and his customer discover they have much in common. They are of a certain age, came to Britain at about the same time, in their teens, lived in the same street in Kilburn in the 1950s and...

The lyric and satirical muses have kept busy with Les Murray. "Subhuman Redneck Poems", awarded the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, Dog Fox Field (1991), "Translations from the Natural World" (1993) and "Conscious and Verbal" (1999) are added to his expanded...

Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mi...

Illusions and delusions, joys and jokes, mysteries of memory and temporal paradox figure in Andrew McNeillie's new collection. Here are new sequences of bird poems, and tree poems, lines from an autobiography, lines from America, and poems about old...

Poems "The Size of Photographs" is the latest collection of brief, humorous and insightful poems from the prize-winning Australian poet, Les Murray. This accessible and beautiful book will appeal to both occasional and dedicated poetry readers.

David Morley declares, "The concept of this text is that each piece of writing is a scientific paper of itself, a series of findings. The practice of writing science and poetry is, for me, a single discussion of perception carried out with the same e...