The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries. All her published poetry is now available here for the first time in over 40 years, along with a selection of her prose. This second edition has an expanded introduction and an additional prose piece.
This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. Edna Longley shows the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points out the connections between them. Poets include Yeats, Hardy, Graves, Eliot, W H Auden, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and others
Poems on immigrants, their homeland and the plight of women by a poet who rec-ently returned to Kurdistan. The book's central sequence, Anfal, tells the stories of women survivors of genocide.
New collection by prizewinning poet and novelist: poems about mortality, illness, being alive and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld.
A series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, where contempory poets speak about the craft and practise of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the University. These lectures give readers the oppurtunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject.