Poetry by Individual Poets

In the Postface to his 114 Songs of 1922, Charles Ives wrote: Some of the songs in this book, particularly among the latter ones, cannot be sung, a...

The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet,...

When Columns, a slim volume of poems written by an unknown young Russian poet named Nikolai Zabolotsky, appeared in 1929, it took the literary worl...

Mary Leader's The Wood That Will Be Used is a tour de force exemplifying what results from a lifetime of labor in the word, a lifetime of one's por...

Like the landscapes where the poet walks, climbs and watches, language is fractured in these poems. The reader becomes a climber too among words th...

without title : it's a modest name for a book, but also a refusal of the very idea of human ownership of land (was there ever a sillier phrase than...

'A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth' Dunya MikhailIn her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets ...

Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. In Sounding ...

Luke Roberts had this to say about Scammer: Flaubert said with my burned hand I write about fire. In Scammer, Dom Hale plunges his whole head into ...

Allama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the qualit...