A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translatorSappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been...

The word of Wyatt Prunty has been acclaimed by critics and poets alike. In this latest book of poems, Prunty finds beauty and violence, mystery and humor, in a variety of private and public worlds.

A long poem considers the life of French poet, Charles Peguy, who was killed during World War I

This collection won the Behan Memorial Award for the best first collection in 1991 and is being re-issued by The Gallery Press. Her poems embody the hills and holy wells, dolmens and flora, and the...

Wheat fires, salt hollows, lightning as a type of razor wire, lymphatic fog, parrots with bot-cutter beaks - here's an anamnesis of rural Australia, but a poet unafraid to honour it with the full...

Il s'efforçait depuis quelques jours d'être heureux des nuages qu'il amoncelait sur sa toile au-dessus d'un chemin de pierres. Mais qu'est-ce que la beauté quand on sait que l'on va partir ? Demain...

Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems...

Constantine Cavafy, though the foremost modern Greek poet, has only recently begun to gain widespread recognition in this country. He was admired by, T.S. Eliot E.M. Forster and W.H. Auden and...

Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of...

"This cahier unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, encouraging readers to experience them alongside and illuminating each other. 'Variations on the Right to Remain Silent' is an...

From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed...