This book is the only single-volume anthology in English that fully represents the scope of Mayakovsky’s artistic work. It includes new translations of his major lyrics, as well as versions of several
During the dark, disturbed years after Ireland’s economic collapse and humiliation in 2008, poet Thomas McCarthy retreated back into an intensely personal world where what was political took on an alm
In galleries and living rooms, on trains and trams and buses, mysterious scenes are briefly illuminated, their occupants caught in 'some small act' or dream - in the National Gallery a gardener steals
The January-February 2019 issue. New poems by Les Murray and Rebecca Watts. Vahni Capildeo on making multivocal performative texts. Michael Powell discusses Drawing in Drag, the first comic book publi
Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie-Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: w
In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird’s fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surre
The Michael Hamburger Reader is the definitive collection of poems, translations, essays, interviews and personal reflections by one of the most influential Anglo-German writers of the last century. D
The March-April 2018 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights include: winners and commendations from the PN Review Prize; a celebration
Frank Kuppner’s The Third Mandarin is made of 501 quatrains divided into five "books." Taken together, they collage an alternative Imperial China of drunk poets, grumpy sages, and sex-
Julian Turner’s Desolate Market takes as its tuning fork a line from William Blake’s Vela, or the 4 Zoas: "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." Fascinated by the interaction
The Antwerp-based poet Leonard Nolens (born in 1947) once claimed to be more interested in his "poetic identity" than in biography. His curriculum vitae should consist of his name and the thousand or
This is a book of two complementary halves. The first half, Grimspound, is a four-part work, part prose, part poetry, that distills ten years of writing on site at the Bronze Age compound on Dartmoor
John Heath-Stubbs was one of the defining poets of his age, a legendary performer (being blind, he recited even his major narrative poems from memory). This new selection by the young poet and critic
Sextus Propertius, the late Augustan poet, is best known today from Pound's famous "Homage," less a translation than brilliant experiment. Patrick Worsnip's new versions rise o
In Nameless Country, edited by American poet, scholar and Yiddishist, Merle Bachman, and Jacobs' UK champion and former publisher, Anthony Rudolf, Jacobs returns to us a unique poet, "split at the foo
Charles Tomlinson writes about foreign places and people but stays close too to the English country landscapes and cityscapes where he spent much of his life. His style is both muscular and intensely
This new Selected Poems, published to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, throws a bright light on one of the great survivor poets of that war, who along with Siegfried Sassoon and David Jon
Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the f
Waterman's debut collection was at times intensely personal, including poems about growing up in the wake of a parental split across two countries. His second does not eschew equally personal them
