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The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.

An edition of the "Collected Poems" of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth-century.

The first ever collection in English of Ice Age Poetry, drawn from the cave drawings and inscriptions at Lascaux, unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century.

Rapt new collection of fifteen poems and sequences, in hardback, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.

Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death.

An autobiography emerges from this Covid diary by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright.

An erotic, humorous, inventive translation of the late Roman poet Catullus through the lens of shibari (Japanese rope bondage).

A translation of Pablo Neruda's poems that were written in "Los versos del capitan" as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film "Il Postino".

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise Gluck.

New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female poet.

We are inside a pre-biotic chemical reaction some million years ago, as it suddenly forms a membrane and becomes a prokaryot cell. In this title, the author blends her narratorless technique with an extension of ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures that have none, indeed have no consciousness, to move steadily through evolution.

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with luminous precision.

Includes poems that are based on a painting by the American artist.

A landmark gathering of the first three decades of work by America's preeminent living poet.

"There is an Anger That Moves" is written by a poet from the Caribbean.

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John Berryman.

A selection from the work of one of modern Greece's poets. It is drawn from various periods of his career and traces his development from early surrealism, in which he transforms French influence into a distinct personal voice and mythology, through the dramatic style of "The Axion Esti" with its blend of spirituality and earthiness.

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's concentrated and richly faceted poems.'

Carl PhillipsâEUR(TM)s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing thatâEUR(TM)s based on human memory.

This is Gabriel JosipoviciâEUR(TM)s most melodramatic and enigmatic fiction to date, as though one of MagritteâEUR(TM)s paintings had come to life to the rhythms of a Bach partita.

Sidetracks, Bei DaoâEUR(TM)s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poetâEUR(TM)s first long poem and his magnum opusâEUR"the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language.

The Strongbox, a modernist poem, is an extended work that develops elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and the cultures of wars, both ancient and painfully recent.

A collection of new and selected poems about life, love, and growing older.

Coco Island is an integrous first collection from the Jamaican poet and novelist Christine Roseeta Walker, exploring the bittersweet effects of a postcolonial world.

Frank Kuppner's new book consists of three hilarious, philosophical, existential sequences: The Liberating Vertigo of a Final Passage of Meaning, Not Quite the Greatest Story Never Told, and Not Quite a False Fresh Start.

Come Here to This Gate is a three-part collection, focusing variously on caring for an alcoholic father with dementia, the personal and global conflicts that shape our lives, and what happens when imps, ghosts and boggarts have to reckon with the modern world.