Claude Rawson 
Cambridge Companion to English Poets 

This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation”s all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll”s curious ”Jabberwocky” to lesser known and forgotten gems …

Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built …

”This is a courageous, arresting debut from a poet to watch” Independent ”A vital contribution to literature” Huck Chosen as one of Bustle ”s Best Debut Books of 2021 Chosen as one of Glamour”s …

Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated t …

The long poem at the centre of John Hartley Williams” new collection is a dramatic monologue narrated by a laconic, possibly lamed, forest dweller, a lowly crewmember on a barge travelling an …

James Lasdun”s new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new theme …

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond – Jack to his family, John in later life – was born in Birkenhead in 1902 and made his living as an advertising copywriter, but his true writing life was in poetry, …

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet …

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 …