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Sequel to his acclaimed debut The Crumb Road, Buddhist priest Maitreyabandhu's new collection is about the stories we tell: a vivid and at times di...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and winner of the Griffin Trust Lifetime Recogn...

Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of p...

Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into ...

How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes her sequence 'Dolorime...

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised ...

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, w...

Lawrence Sail is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Forty-six years on from the publication of his first book, Guises offers the fruits of ...

Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards ...

First collection by one of Ireland's most distinctive new lyrical voices, winner of the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection Prize. Her poems a...

A noctuary is a diary for the late hours, a time for reflection in these lyrical poems about discovering what it means to be a young father, anxiou...

Fourth collection of poems from Sarah Wardle with a focus on recovery from mental health problems.

First English edition (bilingual) of leading Italian poet of Sardinian parentage translated by leading British poet and foremost translator of poet...

Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was both a virtuoso and a paradox. Her fiction, drama, essays and children's books won her wide acclaim in Denmark an...

Seventh collection from northern poet previously shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Glass Swarm (2008) - his first since his Bloodaxe ret...

Abigail Parry's first collection is concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from mot...

The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and mea...

This second collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of p...

The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emble...

Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer with a wide readership. Her urgent new collection is a book of personal, ecological and political re...

Clare Pollard's second colleciton includes poems from the edge, confronting evil in its manifestations, especially the bondage of sex and cruelty. ...

This is a highly unusual book: every poem in Matthew Caley's "Apparently begins" - or occasionally ends - with the word 'apparently'.Publisher: Blo...

Features poems that reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. This work examines the human condition through subjects ranging from sp...

Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. Her poems consider notions...

The Fool asks questions in Greta Stoddart's fourth collection. When knowledge is ours at the tap of a key, what is it we're accumulating, and is it...

Fairoz is a a powerful portrayal of human vulnerability, a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's sus...

Frank Ormsby's seventh collection of poems reflects not only the beauty of the Irish landscape and the sensuous and aesthetic impact of the small f...

One of Ireland's leading poets publishes his Collected Poems with an audio CD, drawing on thirteen collections as well as new uncollected poems and...

Catalan poet Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. In this final collection he faces the approach of death with courag...

DescriptionKen Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. His...

Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britai...

Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complic...

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows would-be poets how to write better, how to write authentica...

Trawlerman's Turquoise, Matthew Caley's sixth collection, brings together elements as diverse as telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, mu...

The late U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was a later developer as a writer, not publishing any poetry until she was 45. This gathering of her early, unc...

A giant crane appears at the back windows of a residential street, its red 'eye' overlooking lives on the other side of the glass where Susan Wicks...

Powerful, visionary book by leading African American poet confronts tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of m...

Debut collection by one of Britain's most original young poets, winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017.

Jen Campbell is already a bestselling author of children's picture books as well as a popular books vlogger with a big following on YouTube. Her de...

David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. His title, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned wi...

Whether wildly or wryly funny, each poem in Phoebe Stuckes' debut presents an episode in the up-and-down life of a wise-cracking party girl inhabit...

Pascale Petit's Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother's Indian heritage and the f...

These poems gives voice to the people who came on the first ships from the Caribbean, whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages whi...

Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are 'The Kids'...

In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, past and present, character and writer. Shaped through s...

Reissue with new audio CD of Frances Horovitz's Collected Poems (1985), one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry.

The poems in Miriam Gamble's third collection journey surreally through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind. By turns uncann...

A collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's second collection Stone Fruit nonetheless speak across their many common preoccu...

The third book in the Staying Alive poetry trilogy. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to conte...

Deborah Landau's Soft Targets draws a bull's-eye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of anni...

Come, Thief centres on the beauty and fragility of our lives, touching on love, science, ageing and mortality, war and the political, the revelator...

Hirshfield is one of America's leading poets. This is her fourth book from Bloodaxe, following Come, Thief (2012), T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Aft...

Swedish poet, novelist and philosopher Lars Gustafsson is one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the searc...

A book of poems and drawings that presents themes which are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, rel...

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) was one of the most significant and influential American poets of the 20th century. Her poetry confronts the turbulent cu...

The Malarkey was Helen Dunmore's first poetry book after Glad of These Times (2007) and Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), and was followed b...

The recurrent themes of Little Silver are inheritance, loss, and the relationship between real and imagined lives. Moments of crisis prompt reflect...

Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her perspective in Ox-Eye ...

The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In Mexico a taxidermist tends animals in their afterlife and conte...

These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through darker days of new parenthood, teasing out anxieties over violence against ...

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our exp...

A collection of poems that are inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where the author would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with ...

Book-length sequence by one of Britain's leading poets about the life and hard times of her grandparents farming in New Zealand, her third book sin...

High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Ra...

This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, co...

Eleanor Brown's debut, Maiden Speech, published by Bloodaxe in 1996, included her much anthologised "girlfriend's revenge" poem 'Bitcherel' along w...

Anne Stevenson is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Completing the Circle is a swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations writ...

Dom Bury's first collection Rite of Passage is an initiation into what it means to be alive on the planet in the midst of extinction, of climate, e...

Postcards from god was Imtiaz Dharker's first book from Bloodaxe. It combines two collections published separately in India, Purdah (1989) and Post...

Covers Selima Hill's books from "Saying Hello at the Station" (1984) to "Red Roses" (2006), and "The Hat" (2008). This book is a selection drawn fr...