Bøger i James Dickey Contemporary Poetry serien

This collection of poems by Robin Magowan represent moments such as a child mat-riding on Red Flag day, and drug overdoses during an affair with a terrorist dragon lady. It aims to take the reader inside, using an instinctive notation to register his fascination with sensation, movement and colour.

Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist sensibility with a sense of connection to the realms from which the forces of generation emerge. The poems, range outward and backward through the history of her family's women.

Rosen creates a novel in poems, through a questing alter ego Gordon Penn who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Each poem relates another episode in Penn's ongoing confrontation with contemporary society.

After 100 years, the secrets of his identity and motivation remain a mystery. This text attempts to get to the heart of the legendary enigma, presenting a collection of dramatic, lyric and narrative poems backed with biographical facts about the man who terrorized London in the autumn of 1888.

Stella Johnston's poems in this collection invite the reader into widely different places; from the nightmarish landscape of a morphine hallucination, to the last moments of a Gary Cooper western, to the bedside of a dying Roman emperor.

This collection of poems describes a world flooded with memories and apprehension. The poems seek to distil experience into crucial moments of knowing, when we come alive to the facts of our existence as revealed in the alterations between solitude and love, grief and joy, incapacity and insight.

This collection of Lesser's poetry is a bridge spanning the poets and languages, family and friends she has made her life and her work. The three sections of the volume explore her long relation to Sweden - her adoptive country, her return home, and her preoccupation with translation.