Features a poem in which four individuals are haunted in different ways by what they have not forgotten. This is a collection in which, whether recent or distant, personal or cultural, the past is keenly felt. The poems range from the barbaric civility of the classical world to the perplexed certainties of the present.

This title is a selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind.

The fourth collection by an award-winning young poet, who published her first collection when she was just fifteen.

The compelling works of John William Polidori (1795-1821) such as "The Vampyre" and "Ernestus Berchtold", exerted a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. This is a collection of Polidori's works, along with his lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his pamphlet on the death penalty, his poetry and diary.