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"The word 'spiritual' is, in this volume, ripped away from the New Age and returned to its sources in Kabbalah and early Christian (gnostic) writings. But it carries with it the world as we have it now. A heap of horrors, remnants, a sense of the feminine under assault, and the drive to love." (Fanny Howe)

Here, for the first time in English, is a selection of work 'in the manner of Cavafy' by poets writing in Cavafy's own language, Greek. Together they embed the intimacy of shared culture, skilfully mirroring passions and preoccupations.

Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose. Her recent work also appears in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015).

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet now living in the UK. He is the author of several books and is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University in London.

A follow-up to Harriet Tarlo's 2004 collection, Poems 1994-2003, this volume is a major survey of the author's more recent work.

Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems, this volume also includes a number of Economou's own uncollected poems and translations, giving us a picture of both poet and translator, as well as a shadowy image of Cavafy himself, in the form of versions of the master's uncompleted poems.

Watersong begins with the first of the great cholera epidemics of 19th Century England. Focussing on the poet's home city of Exeter, the poems interlace select details from Exeter's 1832 cholera outbreak, in which over 400 people died, with imagined narratives of the epidemic, and other related episodes in the city, factual and invented.

This Almanac of two different woodlands, one in the Scottish Highlands and one on Finland's Baltic coast, celebrates those woodlands and their human lives.

Andrew Crozier presented this work to the University of Essex in 1973 as his Ph.D. thesis. Although it has remained unpublished to this day, the work in it and the concepts discussed remained central to his thinking. Ian Brinton has now prepared the thesis for publication, together with the commentary by the thesis' external examiner, J.H. Prynne.

Milestones (Vyorsty) is an early collection by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), published in Moscow in 1922, before she left the country for the West. The book was her most innovative collection to that point, as well as an indication of the way her work would develop in her full maturity as a writer.

The poems in this book arise amidst those remnants that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek Preserve to Koppel Farm Community Garden to a backyard on Pioneer Hill, these poems suggest that we need to not only understand the complex of relationships but also to listen deeply for meanings at every level.

In as much as you can read poetry and look at paintings you will find serious delight in David Kennedy's poems about Cezanne. The sort of concentration required here however is not an endorsed, mainstream activity. It does not sell beans or financial products; it is simply about seeing...

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015 includes original original poetry from the UK and the USA, plus translations of poetry from Spain, the Netherlands, Argentina, France, and Ancient Rome.

In 2012, Yang Lian and others started an online poetry competition in China. They expected a good response, but received more than 85,000 entries. This anthology offers some of the winning poems from the first two years of the competition, together with comments by the judges and essays by several of the people involved.

the road north is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Narrow Road to the Deep North is one of the masterpieces of travel literature.

"(Scully's) innovations... take a modernist inheritance, strip it of any redisual mythos, & use it to examine the interaction of the writer's reflecting mind with the daily life of everybody... & truly, if one seeks a poetry of the moment that records & wryly critiques the inequities of modern life, Maurice Scully's is it." - Marthine Satris

"This is poetry that goes direct to that other place and inhabits it. in possession of loss has a clear sparseness, almost a minimalism, that is also highly complex. Read as a single book-length poem, it thinks our world without telling openly. This is a poetry that shoulders the big questions.

This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influences and how they became involved in poetry. My main objective is to present the spirit of a brief era which, in retrospect, was exceptional in its momentum towards the democratisation of poetry.

The second volume in the Collected Poems of John Matthias, following Vol. 2 of the Shorter Poems in 2011, this volume covers all of the author's long poems from before 2010.

The legend goes that Florentino was the epitome of the great llanero: handsome, a great rider and cattleman, a ladies' man, but above all, a singer and poet. His improvisations were so fast and to the point that the Devil got jealous and challenged him to a night of singing. If the Devil wins before dawn, Florentino will go back with him to Hell.

The Purloined Letter is the author's third collection. "The Purloined Letter has a dolorous stately piercing almost martial music, like an Elizabethan court dance or Miles Davis in his electric period." -Edwin Frank

A chance encounter with an elderly man beside the orchard at Donaghmore was the catalyst which led Susan Connolly to explore the life of Francis Ledwidge in greater depth, and to write her sequence of poems, The Orchard Keeper. Francis Ledwidge enlisted in 1914, and survived until July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres.