The explosive and highly controversial 2002 film of "The Crime of Father Amaro" ("El crimen del Padre Amaro") is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, Eca de Queir...

At last the massive oeuvre of Tom Raworth's poetry is available in a single volume. It will change our way of seeing British poetry, in particular the modernist tradition.

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...

"Chinese Whispers" is the title poem of this outstanding collection. It refers to the ways in which a single word or idea can mutate and evolve through repetition and replication to become something wondrous, strange and illuminating much like the br...

"Collected Poems" covers some thirty years from 1972 until 2001. His individual collections have usually taken as their subject one predominant theme – the enigmas of prehistory, his wartime childhood, the passing of the Edwardian generation his pare...

Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Containing all her published work along with over 70 uncollected poems, this is the definitive edition of a poet with a growing body of admirers. Clive Wilmer spoke of "the ghostly music" of Sally Purcell's poetry and described her first book as "a m...

Elaine Feinstein's voice is clear, passionate and subtle. She writes about love, loss, jealousy and the pressures of living as mother and wife, drawing coherent shapes out of her own inner uncertainties, tenderly calling up an ageing father, a child...

"The Country of Perhaps" is a work in two parts. Part I, a collection of lyric poems, explores the nature and the power of human illusion, and shows how that power is generated not from 'cultural forces' but from the demands of individual choice in t...

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...