Poetry by Individual Poets

The life of George Oppen (1908-1984) thwarted the expectations of a literary career. After publishing his first book at 26 with a preface by Ezra P...

Monochromatic kaleidoscope of winter. Limited components revolving, generating a shifting mosaic that replicates the passage of the winter days the...

The work in Mary Leader's third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the con...

With a fragmented yet rich lyricism, 'Shifting Registers' crosses borders between lost and rediscovered identity. The voices in the poems may be te...

Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry-though, like the sports headlines he writes for the News o...

We always live in the last moment of history. No one has ever come any further in time. All ages shape their own apocalyptic vision, a way of under...

Obsequy For Lost Things consists of three prose-poetry sequences. The first two share the setting of the Thames estuary. They all share, however, l...

Tessitura, Italian 'texture', borrows a musical conceptual term, denoting the textural sweep of melodic contour-kind of safe-space-for a singer or ...

Angwin's interest, broadly, is in a Zen take on psychogeography, and Bardo is a book of thresholds and transitions-inner and outer; a series of jou...

Landscape, textiles, plant-forms, the mysterious taxonomies of perfume are here themes for poetry that works the edge between lyric consonance and ...

Peter Robinson's new collection, The Returning Sky, carefully sequences the poems written over the four years from the time he left Japan and retur...

Locust and Marlin considers how, in lives bright and brief as a candle's burn, we tell our stories and locate the places where we live and love. Wh...

Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from A Michelin Guide, procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and co...

The small poems ...slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory, of thinking and looking and being in the world, a ki...

This collection, the author's first full-length book, gathers poems written over the past decade. The poems, some gathered from previous pamphlets,...