Alan Farmer 
Distant Mists 

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 …

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 …

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 …

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless …

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape …

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 …

‘Bracing’ is a full collection of poems, mostly about contemporary life, experienced richly, intensely, unsentimentally and with humour. The writing is humane and accessible, wearing its intelligence …

Poetry from “one of America’s most consistently interesting singer/songwriters” (Stephen King).   Fans who have enjoyed the lyrics and music on such albums as Cardinology, Easy Tiger, …