Hugo von Hofmannsthal 
The Lyrical Poems of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal 

If you stop and look around you, you”ll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cu …

”Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent ‘down some profound dull tunnel’ in …

Discover the joy of expressing what’s inside you, with fill-in-the-blank poems that are sparking a creative movement. We all have stories inside us, whether or not we consider ourselves ‘creative’. A …

These quotations were developed and written or posted sometime between 1976 and 2016, and there is no particular order to how the quotes are arraigned except I did tend to put that most recent quotes …

In 2010, with the full support of the MOD, John Jeffcock, poet and a former soldier in the Coldstream Guards, invited contributions for a book of modern war poems. He was overwhelmed by the response: …

Through this verse translation of Vergil”s Book VI of the Aeneid we journey with Aeneas through the Underworld to meet his father. Accompanied by Sibyl, the prophetess, who instructs him first to pl …

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2023* * An award-winning poet explodes the notion of translation, showing us the poem in a supple, malleable form ”Form …

King Alfred”s West-Saxon Version of Gregory”s Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for …

Brooding Clouds is a posthumous collection of short stories and poems that were written as a prequel to Phaswane Mpe”s acclaimed bestseller, Welcome to Our Hillbrow. In these thematically linked sto …

In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act in pursuit of a new kind of communication. By turns political, social, theological, historical and personal, the poems in this debut …