How do I read a poem? This comprehensive guide demystifies the world of poetry, exploring poetic forms and traditions which can at first seem bewildering. Showing how any reader can gain more pleasure from poetry, it looks at the ways in which poetry interacts with the language we use in our everyday lives.
'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with history, philosophy, religion, art and music. -- .
Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date
History proposes and disposes of its patterns. Behind all this there may be a 'hidden order' - and that is both a hope and a fear. Does God help us to understand any of this? Does Art? Is the 'soul' a sanctuary?
The latest collection from the author of Poetry the Basics (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.
The ninth Carcanet collection from one of the finest living English poets.