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There is a greeting used in urban America, 'What's good?', which seems to go beyond a mere 'How are you?' or 'What's happening?' to demand an optimistic response. This anthology seeks to rectify both these oversights by showcasing established Caribbean poets from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere.

Presents a collection of poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S Robert Southwell. This book offers texts based on the manuscripts which were circulated in secret among English Catholics in the years after the poet's death.

Inspired by Shakespeare's songs, the short poems of Emily Dickinson, and Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, this collection of songlike poetry is based on the ubiquitous spread of weeds - like the shallow rooting plants, small poems can grow anywhere. It demonstrates a mastery of traditional forms and experiments with the Ghazal, an ancient Persian form.

Reflects upon a writer's deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Lyrical, wise, meticulously observant, this work records the experience of living and working on the land, observing the world from a particular place, and the continuity and remaking of the source.

There is more to Thomas Chatterton than the romantic archetype. This selection, with its detailed notes, shows the historical significance and unexpected range of Chatterton's poetry, and also enables the reader to enjoy it for its rich resonance and wonderfully memorable rhythms.

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s.

"Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems" explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering and funny.

This volume is a collection of Thomas Kinsella's work from 1956 to 1994, making his earlier works accessible in one volume.

An exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means for Boland to be a woman poet, finding her own voice within a tradition.

A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.

Presents a collection that meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry.

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Chinua Achebe's poetic output is gathered together in this volume by arguably the most influential African writer of the 20th century.

One of the most important and yet neglected 20th-century women poets is restored to her rightful place in the modernist tradition with this original collection, which operates on both a mythic and a domestic level.

Charles Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His work encompasses myth, history, scholarship and politics. This book includes extracts from a range of Olson's poetry and prose, including letters, interviews and the full text of the key essay 'Projective Verse'.

Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life.

Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death.

In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an Ireland which recent history has changed and yet not deeply, a country observed through eyes that travel and time have made dispassionate and disabused.

In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book.

This work was specially commissioned as the text of an oratorio for the 1993 Hay on Wye Festival and is based on the story in the Mabinogion of Branwen, the daughter of Llyr. The book also contains a variety of other poems. Gillian Clarke has also written "Letting in the Rumour" (1989).

Featuring a selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, this work displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry.

A second bilingual collection since the author's enforced exile from China in 1989.

A collection of both secular and devotional poems. It covers various literary genres and religious modes on which the author drew.

Vernon Watkins was a great lyric poet. This work offers a selection of his poetry since his death, with an introduction and notes, outlining the literary and biographical context of his work, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

This collection of Sir Thomas Browne's writings includes the complete text of "Urn Burial", selections from "Religio Medici", and much else to give account of Browne as doctor, scientist, philosopher, Christian, political and social being. It includes substantial annotation and a full introduction.

Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created a body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and the changes in language which is her medium in every sense.

A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but keeps on driving all the same.

Presents an exploration of what it means to be a writer and a woman in contemporary society.

Explores the meanings and non-meanings to which, in the end, life and art lead us.

Includes "Penelope's Song" in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's "Odyssey". This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the "nostos", the homecoming.