In her fourth collection, Hilary Davies embarks on pilgrimage - poetic, religious, psychological. Using a dazzling interplay of narrative and lyric line, she travels through real and imagined territory in search of answers to the great questions which preoccupy us as human beings.
Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime, and that the title is apt. The poems range over times and places, commemorating friends (especially the poet Peter Porter), and draw on memories, hard-won faith, self-questioning.
Gypsy Ballads is the best-known book of poems by the greatest Spanish literary figure of the 20th century. This new bilingual edition brings Lorca's verse both to the general reader and the student, illuminated by photos and illustrations of and by Lorca, his own reflections on the poem and introductory notes by leading Lorca scholars.
Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos's short lyric poems: brief, compressed narratives that have an irresistible potency.
Over the years the author has gained the reputation of being at the forefront of the experimental movement in contemporary British poetry. This book collects his work and includes his recent "The Odes to TL61P."
The peerless U. A. Fanthorpe roots herself in the very earth of English poetry, connecting herself to Hughes and Browning, but also and more pertinently to the real experience of English living... so clear-eyed and so, well, completely poetic. -Stephen Fry.