O get your house ready! Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day? In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and catch the spring (but she's elusive);

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This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem is typical in that it begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary.

These letters reveal how Edith Sitwell grew up in a wealthy literary family, headed by an unpleasant though amusing father. They show how she developed from a lively poet into an intensely serious critic and poet, addressing themes of suffering, God and eroticism.

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.

During Emily's life only seven of her 1775 poems were published. This collection of her work shows her breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Once branded an eccentric Dickinson is now regarded as a major American poet.

Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, the author has lit up the poetry scene in the UK. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes his original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke.

This collection of poems presents Gunter Grass's preoccupations - social, sexual, moral, gastronomical - as a mixture of expressionist grotesquerie and political outspokenness that has characterized his fiction.

A reprinted selection of the earliest work of Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn which should be valuable as a historical document. It shows certain shared features and also serves to demonstrate, with the benefit of hindsight, how distinct these two talents were from the outset.

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work provides a suitable introduction to this most influential of poets. It includes poems that are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees.

Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection "The Lost Leader" was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. "The Lost Leader" won the Forward Prize and revealed a poet of dazzling virtuosity, eloquence and subtlety. This title brings together the best work of the Scottish poet Mick Imlah.

A collection of poems from a major twentieth century poet. It demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet, and as - in the round - a secular visionary.

Includes a selection from Pessimism for Beginners.

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.

Presents translations of the poetry of Osip Mandelshtam.

Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion.

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. This title intends to show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.

One of Spain's greatest and most well-loved poets, Lorca is admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work. From the playful "Suites" to his dark vision of urban life, "Poet in New York", his range was remarkable. This title provides versions by various poets and translators, drawing on books of poems published by Lorca.

Charts the unique literary talent of one of Britain's most influential poets and social critics. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and celebrations of urban life, Linton Kwesi Johnson's use of Jamaican dialect to tackle British subjects contributed to a revolution in the notion of literary English.