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Below This Level recounts the experience of prostate cancer: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive lyricism is dedicated to a sustained recognition of the kindness and intelligence of others.

The Franks Casket is an Anglo-Saxon treasure chest in the British Museum, decorated with runes, Latin text and images. Each rune has a pictorial value; I determined the sequence of images given by the runes and then used these images to write the poems, which aim to capture something of the layered histories of the river Teign and its surroundings.

Cagliostro is a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, centred on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The book owes its style of presentation to the example of German expressionist cinema, of the kind exemplified by The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.

In the 1990s Khaled Hakim published sparingly and performed semi-improvisatory routines. This book gathers all the work previously published. As the first-and for some time afterwards the only-black or Asian experimental poet in the UK, the work remains freakishly singular as he forged an occasional poetry mixing narrative, theory, and stand-up.

Including Occupation Stamps as issued before the war and Liberation & Victory Commonwealth Stamps.

Imagems 2 contains six statements by a poet who continues to challenge modernism and post-modernism alike. Here, the borders between poetic theory and practice blur, for some of these texts are prose-poems in themselves. While their themes are rooted in the here-now, their structures call to mind early 20th century manifestos.

"Observant, musical, coheres to nature; it's been a pleasure to read Joseph Massey for some years now. A poetry pared down to the essential inside the world where language interacts with itself and becomes the landscape it emerges from." -Tom Pickard

After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves on to this collection of poetry crystallising out of extended stays in Cambridge and Berlin.

"The Fool & the Bee is a fabulous book of the poetic imagination." -Peter Gizzi"A stunning, pleasurable book." - Alice Notley

"Few men know death: we do not usually undergo it deliberately, but unthinkingly and out of habit and most men die because men cannot help dying" -Francois de La Rochefoucauld"All my friends, dead for so many years - even their ghosts are dying." -Clive Faust

'Are you English?' is never a neutral question. In the 11th century a `Presentment of Englishry' was the offering of proof that a dead man was English and therefore unimportant. In the 12th century a priest living in Areley Regis, set out to `tell the noble deeds of the English - no one knows why he chose to write his poem in English.

For Manuel Rivas, words are the most sensitive of creatures. In the same way that frogs or glow-worms are the first to manifest signs of pollution, words suffer as a result of corruption in the socio-political sphere. In his work he is a custodian of all sensitive creatures; his writings document damage and alert us to potential future harm.

In this trailblazing narrative about where we are going as a species, Rosenberg shows us how he became a writer both ancient and contemporary. The crucial Jewish poet of his time, rooted in the Hebrew of the Bible and the existential sublime of the New York School, Rosenberg has been read mainly for his experimental vision.

This selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro's work, from 1914 until 1948, moving from the early symbolist work, though the high avant-garde phase, then through the highpoint of his career with Altazor and Skyquake, and on into the late poetry which settles down into a post-vanguard style. Also includes manifestos and interviews.

Joao is a book of sixty-two sonnets recounting twelve years of the life of a poet who travels widely, encountering friends and loves, translators and, sometimes, famous authors. Its protagonist is Joao of eGoli; his christian name is Portuguese for "John" and his epithet - "Place of Gold" - is that of his birthplace, Johannesburg, in Zulu.

The open mouth of the Orcus, in the front-cover photograph, represents an entrance to the underworld, according to all the symbolism embedded in the Gardens of Bomarzo, built in the 16th Century in central Italy. And this book actually seems to play with different strata of reality and perception...

Flying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes - reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death. The book ends with a series of heartbreaking elegies for the poet's father, unflinching in their grief-stricken gaze. Poems about Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer musing on their art and subversive pastorals on our loss of biodiversity extend Saxton's focus into new areas. ere are dramatic monologues too - a returning cosmonaut disappointed not to be more generously treated; a Polynesian ambassador in Venice in the time of Casanova; a young man who falls for a girl in the American 'Neverglades' and serves with her brother in Viet Nam. Themes include love savoured, compromised or lost; identity, being and nothingness; and faith versus unbelief. In this dazzlingly various collection, plain-spoken storytelling is set against more oblique or lyrical voices, while sonnets, sestinas, villanelles and 'triplets' (juxtaposing conventional and consonantal rhyme) offer the pleasures of accomplished form. The common factor is a vividly observed aliveness, often inflected with wit. Saxton has conjured a teeming world of phenomena, ideas and emotions that never fails to surprise, as well as entertain or move.

Square Horizon is Huidobro's first book in French and is heavily influenced by the work of Apollinaire, but it marks the author's definitive arrival on the avant-garde scene in Paris, and kicks off a frenetic period of two years in which he published two full collections and four chapbooks.

The Year of the Crab tells the story of an endless seaside summer. It is a musical interplay of emotions and ideas, with recurring motifs and characters, often very funny, often profound, with a sense of childhood discovery remembered in maturity, an idyll with the background voices of fear, illness and death never far away. It is a magical poem.

This book is an exploration through a wandering mind in the middle of external chaos. The poems trace private and public histories, from Lincoln mythos to serial killers, tied together through contorted bodies, whipped lungs, one eye firmly on the abyss, and one hand reaching back from it.

After Russia is Marina Tsvetaeva's last collection, published in Paris 13 years before she died. Containing many poems addressed to Pasternak, the book also, towards the end, contains many references to Russia-studiously avoided in earlier poems - making the final obeisance to a Russian peasant woman and to Pasternak in Moscow a fitting close.

Surely it's time to write a poem according to John James. Two quatrains please, written to the opening of A Theory of Poetry."And so the request went to 29 friends and collaborators of John James, 28 poets and one artist. John James published his New and Selected Poems, Sarments, with Shearsman Books in April 2018, but passed away a month later."Surely it's time to write a poem according to John James. Two quatrains please, written to the opening of A Theory of Poetry." The collaborators are Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Perril, John Hall, Peter Riley, John Temple, Alan Halsey, John Wilkinson, Ian Patterson, Andrew Duncan, Denise Riley, Karlien van den Beukel, Peter Hughes, Gavin Selerie, John Goodby, Simon Smith, Geoff Ward, Anthony Mellors, Anthony Barnett, Lyndon Davies, Tony Lopez, Nick Totton, Chris Cornwell, Linda Kemp, Cliff Yates, Robert Vas Dias, Mark Leahy, J.H. Prynne, Romana Huk and artist Bruce McLean.

In May 1926, Rilke sent his publishers an arrangement of German-language poems as a possible manuscript; most date to 1924, but the collection also included material from a recovered 1906 daybook and a final set of poems from his last two years. This volume is the first English translation of these poems in the arrangement Rilke set down in 1926.

This is the missing volume in Andrew Duncan's compendious survey of British poetry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An overview of trends during a period of more than 30 years, and a consideration of some individual poets whom Duncan feels deserve greater attention.

Being an account chiefly of events which transpired during the first year of the Japanese occupation of The Philippines.