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 Creation of the World" is the autobiography of one of Portugal's most celebrated modern writers, Miguel Torga. Six days comprise "The Creation", published in English in its entirety for the first time. We begin with Torga's childhood in the wi...

"A Champion for the Poor" brings together for the first time John Clare's longest poem, "The Parish" – in a new and corrected text – and his forceful satires "The Hue & Cry" and "The Summons". Some previously unpublished poems are included, too. Ther...

Andrew Waterman's themes encompass love and loss, the human textures of England and the hurt and hope of Ireland, our core existential plight. He ranges from lyric intensity to narrative abundance. In the vivid land- and cityscapes subtle epiphanies...

The Canzoniere of Petrarch (1304-1374) is among Europe's most famous and influential books of lyrics. The focus of this large collection (7,500 lines) is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and various...

"Conscious and Verbal" is Les Murray's first book since his celebrated verse novel Fredy Neptune, described by Peter Porter in the Independent as, "a true verse novel, not just a tour de force but a sustained piece of storytelling in poetry". Conscio...

The American poet John Peck's poems draw on both modernist and traditional resources, quarrying in the large gaps among contemporary audiences for poetry. The badge of "difficulty" is routinely pinned to his work. Yet it may be that such poetry makes...

The place: Palermo, 1783. The barons reject the reforms of the principled viceroy Caracciolo, pursuing their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And porcine abbot Vella, forty years old, is drawn like a fly to th...

When C. H. Sisson was 20, he gave up writing poems. He began once more in his 30s under the stress of war-time, stationed in India. Verse came intermittently, exiguously; the bulk of his early writing in translation ("fishing in other men's waters" h...

Josipovici's novel is based on the life of Pierre Bonnard, the painter of enchanting domestic interiors and innocently unsensual nudes. A thoughtful and deeply felt piece.