An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and black-and-white image. Although a McBeath photograph (of a statue of Apollo wrapped in polythene) is directly invoked in one poem, much of the success of this beautifully produced book has to do with indirection and evocation. It's as if this book presents us with a distinctly new genre - photometry.

In beeldryke verse word die "liefdesgeskiedenis" van die liriese subjek gekoppel aan San- en Khoi-mitologie. Die meeste verse in Grobler se bundel vorm tematies 'n geheel omdat dit die eie bodem en kultuur ontgin en aanspreek. Daar is twee afsonderlike afdelings – te wete Evasgesange waarin die Khoikhoi en die Xhosa hoofsaaklik in gedigte gestalte vind en Boekreis waarin die geskiedenis van Vasco da Gama, die strafekspedisie teen Kalikoet, Catharina de Ataide en kolonialisering 'verdig' word. Catharina was natuurlik die vrou "wat Vasco se swerflus later/ met sewe kinders laat bedaar/" het!

Wierenga skryf met ’n drif en vernuftigheid en voer die swakhede soms tot komiese uiterstes, veral wanneer sy klaarspeel met die verraad en ydelheid van minnaars. Tog bly die oorheersende indruk die van ’n menslike kyk na ander mense. Wierenga steek egter nie in die persoonlike vas nie, maar takel op moedige wyse openbare kwessies. Wanneer sy dit het oor die onreg aan ander, die vernieling van die omgewing en die vernietiging van lewende wesens, skryf sy met ’n vreesloosheid en drif wat van hierdie bundel iets besonders maak.

A new collectable edition of Poe's poetry which demonstrates his skilful and imaginative command of the English language. Often regarded as the founder of the modern short story Poe also laid the foundations for the symbolist poets and futurists of the 20th Century, his razor-sharp dissections of the world offering dark romantic notions to the reader. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The original text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Deernisvol verken die digter in hierdie bundel ’n denkbeeldige gemeenskap met herkenbare karakters. Die gedigte verbeeld samehorigheid en verlies in ’n spektrum van komiese en dramatiese emosies. Polsend van liefde en die lewe, deurspek met legendes en mites, word die dorpie in sy tydlose volheid vertoon. Uiteindelik vind die leser in die karakters se universaliteit sy of haar eie kleurvolle menswees terug.

Gregory Woods (born in 1953 in Egypt) is a British gay poet, critic and academic poet who grew up in Ghana. The people in these poems are coping with the extremes of ordinary life. In looking to the past, to exalt or repudiate it, they make and unmake their futures. Using unrhymed iambic trimeter, Woods plays forty variations on the sonnet's simple progress from octet to sestet. Pared down to its basics, all sinew and bone, the form is efficient and starkly beautiful.

Beyond the delivery room is a powerful, angry, tender and evocative debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poem collections that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection combines story-telling, resistance, re-naming, and remembrance. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape or Kaaps.

Michel Houellebecq, wie se poesie as melankolies, pynlik selfbewus en bytend satiries teenoor die lewe en die verbruikersamelewing beskryf kan word, is al die “Baudelaire van die supermark”, of “Baudelaire gekruis met Philip Larkin” genoem. Benewens die liriese en melancholiese aard van sy werk, is talle van die sy gedigte ook uiters kompleks weens die diep en ryk filosofies-teologiese en kosmologiese idees wat dit onderle.

This collection of poetry by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman explores the difficulty of living with an awareness of the eventual death of all living things. Each of its four sections suggests a coping mechanism for this inevitable predicament, from storytelling, to accepting darkness and death as a creative force, to enjoying disruption and chaos, and finally to embracing the mystery of life as the most triumphant story of all. These difficulties come ""not quite haphazardly"" and not without a ""last light"" something beyond and as ""sweet as apples"". With these moments of grace, Harshman taps into the satisfying richness that comes from unexpected revelations, helping us rise above the fragile recesses of life and death, all while portraying the lost rural worlds of the Midwest and Appalachia in ways untouched by sentiment or nostalgia.

*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize * The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet's father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience. Audiobook now available from Audible, Amazon and iTunes.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written between 29 and 19 B.C., The Aeneid tells the legendary tale of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the heroic ancestor of the Romans. This epic poem tells the story of Aeneas' nomadic travels from Troy to Italy, followed by the Trojans' victorious war against the Latins. Following on from his appearance in The Iliad, Aeneas' disconnected wanderings and vague association with the founding of Rome were compiled by Virgil into a compelling, epic and fantastical national foundation myth.

Improvised Explosive Device is a startlingly innovative exploration of extremism, hate crime and violence by poet Arji Manuelpillai. In this powerful and unsettling first collection, Manuelpillai presents a vision of the contemporary haunted by Melville's image of the whale - the terror beneath the surface of the sea. His uncompromising focus on violence is laced with gallows humour and the surreal, framed against the mundane detritus of modern life: two boys playing Mortal Kombat; a field of old trainers; the lonely glare of laptop light; a suspicious looking package in the back seat of a van. The poems in Improvised Explosive Device emerged through research and interviews with academics, sociologists, and former members of extremist groups and their families - from the English Defence League and the National Front to ISIS and the Tamil Tigers. These complex, unnerving texts ask a series of important questions. What drives a person to commit a radical act of violence? How is that violence mediated through screens and social media? And how does the British government police marginalised groups? Improvised Explosive Device is a brave, surprising and risk-taking book; it will change the way you look at the world. "Refusing glib analysis and easy answers, Improvised Explosive Device is a work of radical empathy, fuelled by honesty and compassion, both for those stirred to violence against minorities, and those who suffer from it." Rishi Dastidar "The project of Arji Manuelpillai's Improvised Explosive Device leans into the mighty disciplines of poetry, sociology, and reportage to formulate an arresting debut which contests the ways we're conditioned to internalise notions of terrorism, nationalism and belonging...a bold and startling new work." Anthony Anaxagorou

The Way Out offers entertaining, poignant and funny poems. A fresh and contemporary voice addressing the personal, the political, the everyday and the absurd. Kate North's second collection shows that the only way to harness the future is live ones choices with assuredness in the present. Sharp observations of addiction, illness and loss rub shoulders with celebrations of the body, exploration of the world and the value of loving relationships.

In Tydelose Gety lewer Lina Spies verse wat spreek van ’n positiewe lewensuitkyk, wat wil uitstyg “bo alles wat vals is en stereotiep”.

Selfs vir die sewentigjarige hou die lewe nog ’n volheid in en kan die vervulling van die liefde beleef word. Sy bring hulde aan groot figure soos Nelson Mandela, weer eens aan Anne Frank en aan ’n onbekende oorlewende van die holocaust wat met oop gordyne slaap om elke nuwe dag te verwelkom.

Vir Spies is daar geen twyfel nie dat die Afrikaanssprekende nog ’n plek in Suid-Afrika het en hier sinvol en gelukkig kan lewe. Die beheerste lewensvreugde van die laaste verse spreek van ’n oorwoënheid en soberheid wat aan Elisabeth Eybers se laaste gedigte herinner.

Vir die eerste keer neem Spies ook enkele vertaalde gedigte in ’n bundel op waardeur sy ’n bydrae lewer tot die bekendstelling van wêreldpoësie in Afrikaans.

By the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar. In Wild, Amy Jeffs journeys - on foot and through medieval texts - from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen, Catastrophe, Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world. From the Old English elegies to the englynion and immrama of the Celtic world - stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals. Illustrated with original wood engravings, evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, Wild: Tales From Early Medieval Britain will leave readers feeling 'westendream': delight in the wilderness.

Wound is the Origin of Wonder introduces UK readers to the work of a rapidly rising star in American poetry. Maya C. Popa is a naturally gifted poet, lucidly engaged with the most profound questions we face in our collective responsibilities and our relations with each other. She writes with love and wonder of a world poised at a perilous moment: "My children, will they exist by the time / it's irreversible?" she asks. "Will they live / astonished at the thought of ice / not pulled from the mouth of a machine?" Popa takes seriously the poet's duty to pay attention, to seek what Seamus Heaney called "the images... adequate to our predicament". To read her poems is to pause again and again at the precision of imagery, breadth of ideas, and the warmth and generousness of her lyric voice.

Denise Inge introduces a selection from Thomas Traherne's writing in this, the third volume in this series on seventeenth century spiritual writers. This volume will contain some biographical detail and historical context, the story of the discovery of his work as well as a discussion of its literary and spiritual power. The main body of the anthology will cover both well known works such as a selection from the Centuries and also excerpts from newer discoveries, including a recent find from Lambeth Palace Library. Thomas Traherne 1636?-1674 was schooled at Brasenose College, Oxford, was ordainded and served in the village of Credenhill, Herefordshire.

Christopher Bunce's first volume of poetry exudes an air of mystery. Created by many tones and timbres, his work is both emotive and amusing. 'Not Everybody's Cup Of Tea' is an accessible collection, the poet4s inspiration and subject matters are intriguingly varied. Christopher Bunce lets his highly individual imagination play on a wide variety of subjects, concocting a strong brew of emotion, faith, love and disaster. It is a volume that is sure to be read again and again, with tears, laughter and appreciation.

Marilyn Lambert writes with the experience of a daughter, wife and mother about the joys and sorrows of life. Her poems deal with such issues as marriage, sacrifice, relationships and loss. She also has time for the magical moments of laughter, comfort and companionship.