Don't Forget the Couscous

The *untsiad

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

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

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

Mad Parade

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

Song of Stars

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

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

Underneath

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

Darkling

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

Screaming Olives

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

A selection, in English, of the work of forty-five contemporary Kurdish women poets, including Be...

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

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

Marginal Future

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

Great Fugue

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

At the beginning of the Fifth Gaza War, the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer defiantly promised th...

Machine Poems

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

Plague Songs

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

The Love Songs of Late Capitalism

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

Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges

Bigger on the Inside is a neuroqueer imaginary of Timelords, psychologists, octopuses, sparkly th...

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...

Grace Note

Stretch

Anxious Corporals

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