The Oxford Poets anthologies introduce the work of writers whose poems extend the rich tradition of the Oxford list, now continuing to develop through Carcanet in association with the English Faculty, Oxford University.
The work of both new and established poets is introduced to a wider readership in this fourth anthology in the Oxford Poets series.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE PRIZE This sharp and unpredictable collection opens in the Cold War. Berkeley’s father was a V-bomber navigator, a conflicted inheritance of pride and guilt...
Recent poems by Daniela Crasnaru, the distinguished young Romanian writer, are here translated by well-known poet Fleur Adcock. This collection is revealing of the self-censorship and the anger experienced by...
Illusions and delusions, joys and jokes, mysteries of memory and temporal paradox figure in Andrew McNeillie's collection. Here are sequences of bird poems, and tree poems, lines from an autobiography,...
... The First World War in Irish Poetry (2002), surveys the work of over thirty Irish poets in an attempt to understand how Irish war poetry helped shape Irish war memory.5 But scholars venturing beyond this rather small enclosure of ...
Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard University Press, 2007, 287–335. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Ode to the West Wind.” Shelley's Poetry and Prose, ed. ... Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address.
Introducing selections of both promise and achievement, this rich collection of British poetry highlights new talent along with established artists. Presenting poems that display an intelligence of purpose and design,...
He has published a number of volumes since then, including Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (1993), Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999), and Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems 1985–2005 (2006), which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry ...
Well known as a poet in her own right, and as a translator, Fleur Adcock's new collection is both varied and lively. Her subjects ranges from domestic matters: recalling the...
An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.