Poetry

'The only peace: to know my placeAnd what I now must do,Striding with the light full in my face,And gravel in my shoe.'Bright, elemental and as dex...

Conceived as an archive of wisdom written by a disabled man for his children, You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations gives voice to the ex...

The seventh volume in this series anthologises the best entries for the 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. The anthology is a truly demo...

Accident Dancing is a book of poetry by artist and musician Keaton Henson, detailing his life in fragments, from the extreme to the mundane. Accomp...

Another Anti-Pastoral, the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes words fail. With a bleat in [her] throat, the poet identifies ...

In October 2016 Peter Jickling left the Yukon to write in Toronto. His resulting poems document subjects ranging from subletting to subways ? illum...

Violent, indignant, ribald and often brutally physical, Villon''s verse has a formidable satiric thrust, and yet is also encompasses passages of po...

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English tra...

I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. So begins a poetic j...