Back in 1996 when Tin Cat Alley was first published by Spout (a small, independent English publisher) one reviewer wrote that 'it would be a shame if Murphy was overlooked by the big publishers.' Quarter of a century later, he is still looking to branch out and find a wider audience for his work.Nonetheless, the themes, preoccupations, and questions proffered in Tin Cat Alley are still relevant to today's readers. By releasing Murphy's first chapbook along with Other Poems: Not to ...

"Fabulous."—Dan Richards, author of Holloway"Terrifically strange and thrilling."—Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley"A modern-day bard."—Madeline Miller, author of CirceThis is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age.In Courting the Wild Twin, acclaimed scholar,...

In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings. Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the rugged, majestic landscape of his birth, the west of Ireland, here he also creates a unique vision of a place and time, and the echo of a memory that will never fade.

A poetic, roaming work of creativity and intellectIs it possible to live wondrously by fluorescent light?In The Ruin of Magic, award-winning writer Kate Holden follows in the footsteps of Katherine May, Maggie Nelson and André Aciman, crafting essays of intimate personal experience and sharply informed rumination on life in strange times.In gorgeous prose Holden meditates on her instinctive yearning for long-ago Europe versus the natural belongin...

A walk is like a knot that gets undone,And yet it keeps us closer.In Marston Meadows, John Fuller celebrates the rewards of a life lived in rich attentiveness to the world. The book opens with the extraordinary title sequence, a corona of fifteen intertwining sonnets written for the poet’s wife on their diamond wedding anniversary. At once magisterial and delicate, they build into a moving meditation on how our selves are shaped, and deepened, by l...

A remarkable collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction**WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023**'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR'A master of language' HILARY MANTELIn this powerful, moving book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters grea...

The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison, or in island detention camps. Despite this, his lifetime's work ...

Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. Included here as well are poems from Reid's powerful and moving elegiac volume, A Scattering, which was named Costa Book...

U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey write: 'Wordsworth speaks of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. This seems an apt description of these love poems. They are not important resonant pieces of writing: they simply happened when one of us felt like writing to the other, quite often when one of us was away from home. Some of them coincided with Valentine's Days or birthdays, but that was more a matter of good luck than foresight. Quakers, rightly, maintain that Christmas Day is only...

‘Michael Dransfield is now recognised as one of the most influential Australian poets,’ writes John Kinsella in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection that showcases Dransfield’s distinctive style: ‘often simultaneously streetwise and sophisticated, and intentionally “naive”‘ but ‘always innovative, often unique’. The poetry of Michael Dransfield (1948–1973) has appeared in literary journals and newspapers. His published collections include Streets of the Lo...

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating humour, as well as with a charming, 'Larkinesque' crankiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grievousness of losing friends and colleagues. But for all its intimate, hearthside rumination, this is a volume of poems that looks outward in eq...

In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.