Don't Forget the Couscous

Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic - John Berger is one of the major European...

If modern French poetry began with Rimbaud's observation that 'je est un autre,' Francis Combes b...

Song of Stars

After breaking a thirty-five year writer's block with Blues in the Park, Jeremy Robson's new coll...

Screaming Olives

The Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory. Between June 1941 and the libera...

The ground gives, the walls crack and our foundations are laid bare, revealing fragments of histo...

A new collection of poems for grown-ups from the 2007-to-2009 Children's Laureate. The absurditie...

Published in 1969, Les Chambres was Louis Aragon's last collection. Subtitled poème du temps qui ...

Undeterred by the embarrassing success of his ridiculous four-volume verse epic The Limerickiad, ...

Nomad is a book about Time - geological, mythic, historical and familial.

'Poetry can stick up for the weak' according to Michael Rosen, or it can 'mock the mighty'; it ca...

On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman we...

Plague Songs

Roque Dalton (1935-1975) is one of the best-known and best-loved poets of twentieth-century Latin...

Eating Thistles

Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Pu...

Michael Rosen is one of our best-loved and writers for children. He has written and edited over 1...

Anxious Corporals

Attempts on Death

Accursed Poets

Selina Rodrigues' much-anticipated first collection takes a long look at the invisible ecology of...

In her early sixties Fiona Sinclair decided to become a 'biker-chick'. Despite the disapproval of...

Stretch

Dummy!

Underneath

Olga Berggolts (1910-1975) was a Soviet poet, playwright and journalist, whose daily broadcasts o...

Mad Parade

The Knucklebone Floor is partly a verse biography of Susan Davidson (1796-1877), who spent thirty...

Grace Note

A selection of poems by the Kurdish writer ¿lhan Sami Çomak, imprisoned in Turkey since 1994. He ...

Great Fugue

Following their widely ignored 2019 anthology The Call of the Clerihew, George Szirtes and Andy J...

The Love Songs of Late Capitalism

Combining traditional Arabic verse-forms and free-verse, We Are Here to Stay some of his best-kno...

In 1973 Fred Voss abandoned a PhD in English literature at the University of California, Los Ange...

Montagu Slater (1902-1956) is best-known today as the librettist of Benjamin Britten's opera Pete...

Written with characteristic craft and wit, many of the poems in Chagall's Moon reflect the change...

Clive Branson (1907-1944) was born in Ahmednagar, India, the son of a major in the Indian army. H...

A book about what humans have done to the world and what we have done to ourselves. Specifically,...

Durham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit...

In 1661 Charles II ordered Oliver Cromwell's corpse to be exhumed and decapitated. The head was d...

An epic poem set in seventh-century Northumbria on the eve of the Synod of Whitby. Brother Oswin ...

What happens when the news gets into your dreams and unravels the work of the day? When you feel ...

For many poets there comes a point in their careers when a Selected Poems seems a logical step. T...

Babi Yar and Other Poems

Michael Rosen has been, for many years, a prodigious and prolific user of Twitter (now known as '...