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Dreaming of Still Water
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SynopsisFaithful, Cliff Ashcroft’s ‘mesmerising first collection’ (New Statesman) was described by Kathleen Raine as “an impressive collection of poems … ambitious and remarkable … a recall to serious issues long...
Read it Again
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SynopsisThis is a wide-ranging, incisive study of contemporary poetry, its predicament and its rich traditions. While it focusses on Australian cultural conditions, it sees them in terms of the English-language...
The Hutton Inquiry
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SynopsisThe political events of Summer 2003 is the setting for the main sequence of poems in “The Hutton Inquiry.” The poems move quickly, as scraps of information, piecing together the...
The Imaginary in Geometry
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SynopsisThe instruction for this new volume was to write poems with no autobiographical content – going straight to personal myth. The Imaginary in Geometry is named for a book by...
And Then Something Happened
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SynopsisAnd then something happened is divided into four main parts. The first, “The Philosopher’s Child,” is composed of short and long poems that address issues of childhood, memory, and prospective...
Ghost Station
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SynopsisIn this long awaited second collection, Sue Hubbard gathers together five major sequences which combine to form in a journey of love, loss and redemption. The central theme is an...
Hearing is Itself Suddenly a Kind of Singing
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SynopsisThis is Simon Perril’s first full-length collection. Perril reinvents domestic idylls, epithalamia and combines these with poems on power, perception and ontology. Savvy, funny and littered with raids on literature,...
Living with the Earth
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SynopsisThis book is about the relationship between humans and the earth, people and place, culture and nature. It argues that the concepts and categories of natural history, scientific ecology, landscape...
Tin Pan Arcadia
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SynopsisThis book contains by far the largest selection from the project of interconnected texts called Twentieth Century Blues that Robert Sheppard produced between 1989 and 2000. Other parts include Empty...
For the Living
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SynopsisThis revised first volume of Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten consists of longer poems written between 1965 and 2000, in Greece, Italy, England and Yugoslavia. While some poems, like ‘Avebury’...
Untitled Deeds
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SynopsisOver the past quarter of a century or so, Peter Robinson has gained a reputation for his lyric poetry, translations, and critical writings devoted to modern and contemporary verse. Untitled...
Eckhart Cars
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SynopsisEckhart Cars consists of a series of 18 poems. Although conceptually related, the individual poems are formally distinct from one another. The book draws on a number of source texts,...
Only by Failure
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SynopsisOnly by creativity and the risk of failure can one succeed. This book is the first attempt to trace the life of Terence Gray, a man who always wanted to...
New and Selected Poems
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SynopsisThis book includes selection from Ouyang Yu’s poetic work, published or unpublished, for more than a decade straddling the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century, in...
Press When Illuminated
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SynopsisThis volume assembles work long unavailable in print, which forms part of a literary movement – the so-called ‘Cambridge Poets’ –of great interest to many scholars and writers. Nick Totton...
Recollections of Being
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SynopsisThis new book by Nathaniel Tarn contains two series of “domestic poems”; a set of poems about New Mexico, and a set of lyrical poems on contemporary issues: philosophical, environmental...
New Selected Poems
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SynopsisJohn Matthias’s New Selected Poems brings together both short and longer poems from eight previous books. It ranges from early lyrics written in America during the 1960s to meditative and...
Doppler Effect
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SynopsisThis new selection of John Kinsella’s innovative poetry gathers work from over fifteen years. Including seminal works like Syzygy and Erratum/Frame(d) as well as more fugitive publications like The Radnoti...
Lambchops with Sally Goodman
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SynopsisThis passionate and incisive book gathers together poems written by E.A. Markham under a range of pseudonyms and personae. Exploring perceptions of race and gender, community and identity, Markham steers...
The Roads
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SynopsisAt the heart of David Kennedy’s new collection is a sequence of elegies: for the poet’s father, poets Jack Beeching, Ric Caddel and Kenneth Koch, the actor Anton Walbrook and...
The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite
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SynopsisThis is Anthony Caleshu’s first book of poems. Divided into five sections, themes range from the erotic to the religious in poems which are as inventive for their images as...
The Encyclopedia of Scotland
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SynopsisThe Encyclopedia of Scotland is a passionate invocation to a Muse at once abundant and excruciating, a performance poem for soul-voice and attendant daemons. At one time performed by Finch...
Collected Poems
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SynopsisThis book collects all the poems published by Andrew Taylor since his first book appeared in 1971, together with a substantial section of new work, and confirms him as one...
The Wayward
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SynopsisThe Wayward is an exploration into virtual life and theory. It uses tools from codework to traditional genre; much of its work is the result of programming intended to create...
Poetry on a Plate
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SynopsisA book to celebrate the theme of 'food', as part of the Poetry Society’s annual ‘National Poetry Day’ festivities. Perfectly appropriate for the armchair or the kitchen, “Poetry on a...
Speakbright Leap Passwood
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Synopsis Speakbright Leap Passwood is a major selection of Ulli Freer’s poetry covering more than a decade. The poems have been extracted from eleven major sequences beginning with Rushlight and...
False Memory
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SynopsisFalse Memory is a major political poem of unusual ambition, written through the events of the 1990s, representing the damaged world that we know in all its violence and inequality....
100 Poets Against the War
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Synopsis The most talked-about and successful ebook of recent years is published here for the first time in paperback. “100 Poets Against The War,” a trilogy of downloadable electronic chapbooks...
Reverdy Road
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SynopsisReverdy Road is a book of poems celebrating the aleatory. They are various responses to their now. Each poem is an open gift, a happy thing in the world –...
Aftermath
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SynopsisAftermath brings together several long poems concerned with masculinity, authority, and the politics of art, alongside a selection of shorter poems curious about science, memory and new technology, written over...
Blueroads
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SynopsisAt the heart of “Blueroads – Selected Poems” by Peter Hughes are two powerful poetic sequences which appear in their entirety. “The Metro Poems”, from 1992, consists of one poem...
Dear Deliria
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SynopsisWinner of the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2004. Pam Brown’s poems are insomniacs in the sense that Rimbaud might have given the term: they are totally awake at all times....
Rooms and Sequences
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SynopsisMike Ladd is the best-kept secret in Australian poetry. It’s not that he’s not well known; he is. It’s more that few fully appreciate his range and uniqueness as a...
Exigent Futures
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Synopsis‘This book gathers together poems from four of Michael Heller’s major collections along with some new work from this remarkable poet. An air of profound elegy, loss and remembrance permeates...
The Imageless World
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SynopsisThrough momentary glimpses and unaddressed, unsigned missives, The Imageless World evolves into a snapshot of contemporary experience – its anxieties, intimacies, absurdities and occasional horror. Dipping between parody and mourning,...
a.m.
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Synopsisa.m. achieves something quite remarkable: a calm that is a sublimated urgency, a meditation on distance that opens into a habitat for human intimacy: ‘the emptiness that forms before love...
Gallery
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Synopsis‘With the publication of Shoot in 1999, Mark Pirie established himself as one of the most promising of the younger New Zealand poets. Gallery brings together the best of Pirie’s...
beautiful, unfinished
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SynopsisThis wondrous book of parables, meditative cantos, mysterious songs, lyrical and exploratory poems mapping interstices between experience, emotion, and realization casts Zen-like nets – those of a boldly honest, brilliant...
Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm
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Synopsis Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm playfully experiments at the edges where languages meet. These poems probe the technologies of language and the languages of technology. This is “technology”, with an...
Contrivances
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SynopsisContrivances consists of four constellations of poems. It is characteristic of John Wilkinson’s writing that each poem can be read either as self-sufficient or as interdependent with other poems in...
Trio
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SynopsisTrio is a 162-page omnibus collection of three books of poetry by leading Australian poet John Tranter published over a period of wide-ranging stylistic experiment in the 1970s.Red Movie, John...
Studio Moon
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SynopsisThe poems in Studio Moon were written over the last fifteen years, and cover a wide range of styles and approaches: poems that are answers to other poets’ work, sometimes...
Collected Poems
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Synopsis‘In 1996, Iain Sinclair, briefly surveying ‘what has mattered over the last thirty years'’, mentions John Temple as one of two ‘fine poets who haven’t published for some time’. This...
Order of the Ordinary
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SynopsisOrder of the Ordinary brings three of Joe Francis Doerr’s longer cycles, Letters to Woodhenge, Corrigenda, and F U TH A R K 2K, together with many shorter sequences and...
The Sense Record
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Synopsis‘The Sense Record breaks every rule. Rather than being spare and fragmentary, Moxley’s work is lush with modifiers, full sentences, and subordinate clauses. Rather than shun the first person singular...
Selected Poems
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SynopsisNuttall grew up in a remote valley of Herefordshire, where his father became the village schoolmaster. Nuttall formed his standards of assessment in this valley and they have not altered...
Riff on Six
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SynopsisThis book contains poems from Reiss’s first four books, as well as rollicking new work in his fifth volume, Slap Me Five and his sixth collection of darkly humorous and...
Accumulus
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SynopsisAccumulus is a collection of Ethan Paquin’s first two books of poems, The Makeshift and Dead July. The former was released in the UK in 2002, to widespread critical notice...
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