Taking bearings from Dover and London, from elegy and protest, from official structures that determine where people can go, and the futures that cross them, this book explores the social spaces in which we all move. It asks what it means to be at large in the world, and what language we have to document the journey.
'In Search of Fat' is a translation of some of Bewketu Seyoums's popular poems from Amharic. The poems in this bilingual edition mark his distinctive humorous but cutting style in predominantly short form. The translations, with input from the author, aim to replicate in English the energy and vitality of his voice. Bewketu Seyoum is a popular ......
Presents an exhilarating, freewheeling ride through landscapes and languages. In this title, the poems, all written on the move (tramping the Gobi desert, cycling in Irish drizzle, paddling in Tonga) have the fizz of travellers' tales, the enchantment and the melancholy of the open road.
New Selected Poems is a poet’s choice of over thirty years’ work. Minhinnick’s poetry explores the complexities of belonging in the world. It is rooted in the rich particularity of industrial south Wales and the Welsh seaside resort in which he now lives, but its scope is global. New Selected Poems includes ‘An Opera in Baghdad’ as well as ......
In Slowly, As If, Karen Press looks clear-eyed at what it means to live in a complex society, a fragile world. She celebrates the connectedness that sustains us – in dance, in love, with the natural world, in cities where ‘strangers seem happy / to let you be’ – and sees it betrayed by our unreflecting complicity in poverty and violence. The death ......
Paralogues, which takes its title from the Greek word for ‘ballads’, is the British début of an original Canadian poet and editor. Evan Jones explores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from contemporary perspectives. The myth of Actaeon is re-imagined in three ways, and Paralogues concludes with a sequence retelling ......
Begins with poems and ends with a collection of epigrams. Between these, the author's published collections appear in chronological sequence. It deals with subjects such as: love, relationships, memory, and all kinds of daily exchange.
Buoyed by music as well as water, notably the Aegean Sea and the rare rains of the eastern Mediterranean, this title includes poems that combine delicacy and vigour in their pursuit of an elusive equilibrium.
Features poems and their prose commentary ("The Fathers are Watching") that navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings.
