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Legna Rodriguez Iglesias has quickly become one of the most celebrated Cuban poets writing today. Her intense - often confrontational - poetry refuses to conform, subverting expectations and challenging social mores. Co-published with The Poetry Translation Centre, this dual-language Spanish-English edition of her work is her first UK publication.

Taking its title from an 18th-century anatomical wax sculpture of an idealised woman, Ivory's fifth collection examines how women have been portrayed as 'other'; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs; and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets.

Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. This expanded edition of Selected Poems (1990/96), winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, also includes all of Hoelderlin's Sophocles (2001).

Second collection by popular London poet previously published by Salt. `One of my favourite poets writing today. Her delicate, dexterous writing belies the raw truths she tells...I love Amy Key' - Lauren Laverne. Poetry Book Society Wildcard Choice.

Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. As with Rumi, modern translations have a strong appeal to today's readers. Both ardent mystic and lover, Hafez fuses earthly and divine love.

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third collection, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize.

Twelfth collection by leading Irish poet features poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much portraits of the poet and the difficulties of writing poetry, plus surreal poems on birds and animals.

Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. This dual-language Somali-English edition is translated by Clare Pollard.

Anthology celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King receiving an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in November 1967, six months before his assassination in April 1968, with poems addressing the three major problems of our time named by King in his acceptance speech: racism, poverty and war.

A celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings.

Menna Elfyn is Wales's leading Welsh-language poet. Bondo is the latest of her collections to be published in Welsh and English at the same time: so there is no separate Welsh-language edition.

Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. Winner of the Laurel Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018, Mama Amazonica is her seventh collection, and her first from Bloodaxe.

Poems of a lost self and a lost brother. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, Limburg identified with Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Another of the book's main sequences was written in response to her brother's suicide.

This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous.

W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. This late collection written in his late-80s finds him deeply immersed in reflection on the passage of time and the frailty and sustaining power of memory.

The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries. All her published poetry is now available here for the first time in over 40 years, along with a selection of her prose. This second edition has an expanded introduction and an additional prose piece.

This first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations forms a sequel to Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features many more poems in covering the work of 26 poets from the 20th century. Irish-English dual language text.

Joanne Limburg wears comic camouflage to stalk serious subjects, from envy and guilt to bereavement and its tangled aftermath. Her often boisterous poems celebrate the defiant vulnerability of modern women, exploring their lives as daughters, mothers, friends and rivals. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection.

New book of satirical poetry from Ireland's most popular poet featuring Guff, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning.

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 or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its toll on his physical and mental health. 'Chick' was his gambling nickname.

Translations of the three great Japanese haiku masters, Basho, Buson and Issa, each selection featuring an introduction, around 100 haiku, and other poetry or prose by the poet, plus a superb essay on the art of haiku.

New book of previously uncollected poems by R.S. Thomas - all totally new to his thousands of readers.

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 loneliness by contemplating black swans, blue waves, seagulls, trees and rocks.

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 from ten collections, each offering variations on her abiding themes: women's identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family conflict and mental illness, men, animals and human civilisation.

'Throw in the Vowels' is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins including a free audio CD of poems read by the author.

Katrina Porteous has lived in the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years, formerly home to a centuries-old fishing community. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the place and its people. Her first collection also includes some of her own drawings featuring both fishing and industry in decline as well the wildlife of North-East England.All her poems are strongly physical in character, written to be read aloud. They take as their starting-point the tensions between time and eternity, change and stillness. In language which is both passionate and controlled, they express the endless struggle to discover new forms of order.The fishing poems develop these themes within a microcosm of the wider world. In a dialogue between her own voice and the fishermen's dialect, Katrina Porteous traces the identity of the community in its common memory and working practices, finding with the passing of the old ways of life a loss of spiritual direction. The poems suggest the way forward is neither to cling to the past nor to abandon it, but to change and remember.