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Some Do Not ... is an unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society facing catastrophe, as the energies of sexuality and power erupt in madness and violence.

The poems in The Sleepwalker at Sea tread a fragile line between dream and wakefulness, memory and loss, presence and longing.

Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of subjects.

Baudelaire's prose poems were written over many years and published in magazines between 1855 and his death in 1867. This book presents translations of Baudelaire's work. It shows the poet at the height of his powers, totally uninhibited in his expression of wonder, tenderness and compassion.

Contains "Les Fleurs du mal (1857)", "Nouvelles Fleurs du mal (1868)", and "Les Epaves (1866)".

Frank O'Hara composed poems "any time, any place", collaborating with artists, dancers, musicians and poets. The city was a place of endless possibility, and he captured the pace and rhythms, the quandaries and exhilarations of city life. This selection of his work is edited by Mark Ford.

Features poems that inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. This collection finds unforeseen connections between place and displacement.

Sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times.

Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants.

Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. This title introduces Brock-Broido's poetry to British readers with generous selections from her three acclaimed collections: "A Hunger", "The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind".

Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed.

Muriel Sparks's celebrated autobiography with a preface by the poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein.

Celebrates life as an early twenty-something. This book presents a collection of poems of Caroline Bird.

A collection of poems that explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood.

Presents a selection of Lorca's poems in Spanish. This book is suitable for newcomers to Lorca who know, or are prepared to grapple with, a little Spanish.

Intends to form a meditation on human loss.

Includes poems that form a three-way dialogue between the modern poet, the Christian heretics awaiting Judgement Day beneath their enigmatically-carved tombstones, and the heretic-hunters.

In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. This work is the chronicle of that obsession.

The poetry of Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) was distinguished by clarity of language combined with mystical content. His masterpiece "Awater", written in 1934, is the most important Dutch poem of the 20th century. This title features three English translations of "Awater", made at different periods, for comparison.

Traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. This book moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section. It celebrates how imagination and memory enable us to cope with violence and death.

Explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. This title includes poems that sustain belief in the power of language to reveal, interrogate and heal.

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. This collection shows Averno as the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Both epic and intimate in scope, it explores the enduring drama of love and death.

A book of portraits, experiments and objects made of words; they find their locations between Cape Town and London, between the dawn of the new millennium and the present day.

Explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which we first named the world.

A selection of the startling and beautiful poems of Charlotte Mew.

A selection from the poems Grey Gowrie has written since 1958. This work draws on the best part of a year spent in hospital when the author, dying of a virus on the heart, was jolted back to life and writing by the surgical gift of a heart from a living donor.

Explores what is lost to time and change, and what endures and is transformed: languages and landscapes, artefacts and songs, carried through a lifetime, across oceans, across centuries.

Provides a translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, which excludes only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. This book includes all the poems published in the first (1857) and second (1861) editions, as well as those added to the third (1868), published after the poet's death.

In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary poetry. This collection of her prose writings, accompanied by evocative family photographs, discloses the world that she transformed into poetry.

A book of poems by the world's celebrated poet.