Poetry

The Eagle's Mile

by James Dickey

Poems that marked a new direction for a master poet

The Poems of Norman MacCaig

by Norman MacCaig

‘I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaig’s work. It is an ongoing education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry . . . He means poetry to me’ – Seamus...

Dreaming Frankenstein

by Liz Lochhead

‘Human relationships, especially as seen from a woman’s point of view, are central: attraction, pain, acceptance, loss, triumphs and deceptions, habits and surprises; always made immediate through a storyteller’s...

Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish

by Breyten Breytenbach

Hertzog Prize winner Breyten Breytenbach's imaginative and inspirational elegy to Palestine's greatest poet.

Mothers and Daughters: A Poetry Celebration

by June Cotner

Celebrate the life passages shared only between mothers and daughters in this uniquely moving collection.

Mothers and Daughters reveals the full breadth and depth of the mother-daughter bond as only poetry...

Country Music: Selected Early Poems

National Book Award for Poetry 1983

by Charles Wright & David St. John

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.

Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3

by Mark Rudman

The remarkable third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1

National Book Critics Circle for Poetry 1994

by Mark Rudman

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.

Erasures

by Donald Revell

A celebrated poet struggles with the century's events

Beautiful Shirt

by Donald Revell

The world that Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties, as he searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities....

Of Gravity & Angels

by Jane Hirshfield

A precise and passionate collection by a brave new voice in poetry.

Death Tractates

by Brenda Hillman

A celebrated poet asks anguished questions about separation and loss.

Sea Room

by Maria Flook

A poetic exploration of love, fear and god.

Selected Poetry, 1937-1990

by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto & Djelal Kadir

Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time.

The Known World

by Don Bogen

Stunning poetry that explores the complex relationship between past and present.

Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems

by Robert Bly

Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth

Things Come On: An Amneoir

by Joseph Harrington

National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir

To See the Earth Before the End of the World

by Ed Roberson

Generous, visionary new work by this major American poet

Elegguas Elegguas Elegguas Elegguas Elegguas

by Kamau Brathwaite

Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet

Buckdancer's Choice: Poems

National Book Award for Poetry 1966

by James Dickey

Poetry that is a blend of superb gift and subtle imagination by a mature and original poet at his finest.