For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called "Habitat" (her most recent book was "Poppies in Translation" in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose. Appa is a physician, a fat...

A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English. Born in Jerusalem in 1978, Najwan Darwish is one of the most beloved poets of the Arabic-speaking world. In this definitive col...

This "Collected Poems" spans Mimi Khalvati's nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems.

Fabio Morabito is one of Mexico's best loved and most entertaining contemporary writers, his narratives marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time. Some of his poems...

The poems in "One Little Room" enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem from the outside: they expand and interconnect to produce new and dazzling perspectives out of the limit...

This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of 31-syllable sparkles, probably set off by accident, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered & enjoy...

A sequel to Philip Terry's "Dante's Inferno" (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still. Dante's Virgil is substituted with Ted Berrigan as guide....

This tragi-comic, or comi-tragic grief journal blends loss and low vision into poems that issue in startling joy. "Emotional Support Horse" tracks the course of a lived bereavement intensified by sight loss and eco-stress. But wit is not only an elem...

In "Conjurors", a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (1917-1974) published only in magazines during her lifetime. She was a key figure in the Carcanet anthology of the mid-century, Apocalypse (2020), but this is her first collecti...

"Tablets: Secrets of the Clay transforms" the world's first letter symbols, cut onto clay tablets, into matters of our modern everyday life. The poems are accompanied by drawings inspired by the ancient Sumerian images. These short poems, which can b...