In her second collection, printer's daughter Heidi Williamson mines the rich language and history of printing to consider themes including belonging, parenthood, love, and communication.
Ex-Salt poet Mark Waldron joins Bloodaxe with his third collection. 'Mark Waldron is the most striking and unusual new voice to have emerged in British poetry for some time.' - John Stammers
Mapanje was imprisoned by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences in his previous books. Now he returns to Africa.
Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. Combining vigour with ingenuity, translator Mario Petrucci reanimates for the Eng
Friedrich Hoelderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations.
Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966. Somewhere Else
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations.
Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets during the 1980s and 90s.
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees spoken as witness to a Highland hanging, ten dream poems and 35 death sonnets deconst
Helen Dunmore's final collection Inside the Wave was 2017 Costa Book of the Year. Counting Backwards is a posthumous retrospective covering ten of her collections written over four decades.
Keith Hutson is a comedy writer turned poet. His debut book from Bloodaxe celebrates the lives and foibles of extraordinary music hall and variety artistes past and present.
