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Francois Jacqmin is one of Belgium's most influential poets of the twentieth century. This twelfth collection of his poems is inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where the falling...

Never published in verse form before, these translations of some of the earliest known German poetry give us a rich glimpse of a life that, while alien in so many ways, was not so different after all...

The Caprices is a sequence of poems written in response to Goya's Los Caprichos, a series of aquatints in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Each of the 80 poems is illustrated by the etching to which it...

For Gilles Ortlieb, the day's ration is hard won. He takes the art of noticing to a new level, petrifying us with moments of bleakness and ushering us out of them through his humanity. He states...

In Mara Bergman's first full collection, the poet travels from the tenements of New York City to the Sussex countryside, from childhood to motherhood, and beyond. These are probing poems, seeking to...

The Illegal Age is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It explores the enduring potential for human beings to...

A collection of poems that present vivid images from the poet's youth and of both rural and urban Cuba.Author: Victor Rodriguez NunezPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: May 28, 2008Number of...

We may have heard of, or even read, Sunzi's Art of War, but this anthology is the first opportunity that the majority of English-language readers will have to read first-hand accounts from those...

Every year, people living in our towns and cities - the homeless, suicides, old people living alone - are found dead. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends. In Amsterdam in 2002, F...

From both revered, established writers and exciting contemporary poets, the work in this anthology offers a broad picture of Maori poetry written in English. The encounter between Maori writers and...

The Nameless PlacesAuthor: Richard LambertPublisher: Arc PublicationsPublication Date: Jul 17, 2017Number of Pages: 61 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469002ISBN-13: 9781911469001

His last published collection of poems, confirmed Tom Rawling as a spiritual poet. Drawing on his childhood in Cumberland, his passion for trout-fishing and his relationship with his wife, he creates...

Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of mankind and its wail. This work presents the...

The Night We Were Dylan Thomas - 9781910345511Author: Mara BergmanPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: May 01, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Reveals how the great figures of Russia's 'Silver Age', despite the great geographical and social distances that often divided them, maintained an intimate, almost metaphysical, kind of contact with...

The Play Of WavesAuthor: Immanuel Mifsud, Maurice RiordanPublisher: Arc PublicationsPublication Date: Oct 27, 2017Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Alamgir Hashmi has been writing poetry for the past forty years, and is the first English-language writer to bring such recognition to English writing in Pakistan. Of his work, Ted Hughes wrote:...

Egill Skallagrímsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to...

Arjen Duinker is one of Holland's highly respected poets with over ten collections to his name, and an array of prizes including the prestigious Jan Campert Prize in 2001. This is a collection of...

In this masterful first book of original poems, Iain Galbraith explores how people's actions and experiences shape not only their own lives but the world around them. His poems are full of sharp...

Çapan's poetry manages to sound ancient and traditional while being firmly rooted in today's world; it is both thoroughly Turkish and at the same time European - and beyond that, part of a greater...

The Wound takes the form of two short books in conversation with each other; the first from the perspective of Sweeney, anti-hero of the epic poem Buile Suibhne, the second an 'interaction' with...

In this poignant new poetry collection, one of New Zealand's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims,...

Time Begins to Hurt responds to our extraordinary times of pandemic, refugee migration and species extinction. The poems interweave the intimate and the worldly to explore growing older and the...

Stein Mehren, Norwegian poet and playwright, writes in the language of the heart, weaving his themes and imagery into a kind of baroque music, in poems that swell and fall like symphonies. Writing...

Will Stone's outstanding new translation, complete with contextualizing essays, promises to rekindle interest in the work of this seminal poet.Author: Georg TraklPublisher: ARC...

Osip Mandelstam's second collection of poems, Tristia, astonished Russian readers in 1922 with its daring verse forms and meditations on revolution, exile, death and rebirth. Thomas de Waal's new...

Trust - 9781908376749Author: Anna T SzarboPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: April 01, 2021Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1908376740ISBN-13:...

Twist is a slant look at the connections binding us together - familial, social, political - in poems which range from the curious and disturbing to memories and evocations of the ordinary magic at...

Vanishing Points is Lucia Stupica's fourth book of poetry and comes after a decade of silence in which her poetic voice has become more complex and sensitive to the cracks in time and in the world...