Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, d
This edition brings together three series of prose poems, Le Jardin des langues (1974), Le balcon de Babel (1977) and Bois dormant (1983). Other books by Mace have as their subject literary figures s
A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid - from one shore, the Bristol Channel, f
Mixing semantic and sonorous sense, this book features poems that come to life through metamorphosed moments, showing that nothing can be taken literally in a world 'endowed with sense and meaning'.
Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, George Szirtes, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. George Szirtes' lectures cover poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, George Seferis,
Published on her 70th birthday, Shuttle's latest collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory.
Reissue of 1985 Collected Poems by a neglected mid-20th-century British poet. This edition is co-published with the book's original publisher, Whiteknights Press at Reading University.
The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestory.Part novel, part poem, part fa
An anthology that draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing, while not isolating women's writing from its intersect
Brings together many favourite poems from the author's four collections - "The Adoption Papers", "Other Lovers", "Off Colour" and "Life Mask" - as well as some previously uncollected poems, and some l
Poems on immigrants, their homeland and the plight of women by a poet who rec-ently returned to Kurdistan. The book's central sequence, Anfal, tells the stories of women survivors of genocide.
Poems from the diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, or someone imagining themselves to be such a rake, having drunk too many espressos? A series of beautifully skewed, left-field, back-handed lo
Swedish poet, novelist and philosopher Lars Gustafsson is one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness.
What are the contours of a life? This collection of poems features: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain ad
