Each of Carcanet's fifty years is marked by an exchange of lettersbetween an author and the editor. The aim is to reveal a half century'shistory of publishing and one small, ambitious press's contribution, thenature of editing, the author/editor rela...

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel "A Hero of Our Time". But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living poet. He achieved almost instant fame in 183...

"Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets" is the first anthology in decades to present to British readers the remarkable freshness and vitality of New Zealand poetry. Starting in the mid-1980s, it captures turning points in the work of Allen Curnow and...