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E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 01434-611581 Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems simultaneously completes and advances the oeuvre of the Nobel CATALOGUE ISBN: 978 1 78037 400 0 BLOODAXE BOOKS 2 3 parts of the world, including America, , Canada, Denmark, , Finland, Guyana, , Italy, Jamaica, , Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland and Sweden, as well as from Britain and Ireland. Most of the films present informal, one-to-one readings, with the poets reading to you in person. They enhance your appreciation of the poetry. You hear how the poems sound; you see how the poets read and present their work. Poets writing in other languages read in the original with the English translations read by themselves or by their translators. Some poets are also captured in live performance. T.S. Eliot once described poetry as ‘one person talking to another’, while W.H. Auden believed it was essential to hear poetry read aloud, for ‘no poem, which when mastered, is not better heard than read is good poetry’. In Person: World Poets presents the oral art of poetry in that spirit. There are over 14 hours of readings on four DVDs packaged with the book, and all the poems included DVD- in the films are printed in the anthology, with poems BOOK written in other languages alongside the translations, LAND OF THREE RIVERS enabling you to follow either language as they are Hoard The Poetry of North-East England IN PERSON: WORLD POETS read on the film. Like the original In Person: 30 Poets, this new compilation gives readers a personal festival edited by Neil Astley Filmed and edited by of poetry in DVD and book form for viewing at Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to Pamela Robertson-Pearce & Neil Astley home on laptop or TV. It is also a unique keep under wraps for several years because they Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East educational resource for the teaching and didn’t suit the themes of her last two collections, England in poetry, featuring its places and people, In 2008, Bloodaxe published the world’s first DVD- appreciation of poetry. The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include culture, history, language and stories in poems and anthology, In Person: 30 Poets, a new concept in reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its publishing: readings by 30 poets published by 25 May 2017 £15 paperback with 4 DVDs typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill- bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title Bloodaxe in its first 30 years captured on film, with all 978 1 85224 985 4 320 pages 234 x 156m considered second marriage followed by her (from Vin Garbutt’s song ‘John North’), the book the poems included in the footage printed in the book Previously announced migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), maps the region in poems relating to past and of the films. and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. present, depicting life from Roman times through PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE is an artist medieval Northumbria and the industrial era of Its sequel, In Person: World Poets, is another inter- and filmmaker. Her films include Imago: Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow March in 1936, mining and shipbuilding up to the present-day. national collaboration between Bloodaxe Books and Meret Oppenheim (1996), Gifted Beauty (2000), makes two appearances, joining Coleridge, several award-winning film-maker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. Life is Immense: Visiting Samuel Menashe Introductory essays by Rodney Pybus and Neil (2009) and Benjamin Zephaniah: To Do Wid ancestors and two dogs. The most recent poems in Her style of filming combines directness and simplicity, Me (2013). She has shown her work in solo the book recall Adcock’s visits around the North Astley emphasise the importance of the oral sensitivity and warmth – the perfect combination for exhibitions in New York and Provincetown Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her tradition during the centuries when little “written these intimate readings. It is as if the poet were sitting (Cape Cod), and in group shows in the US renewed although not uncritical affection for the poetry” of note was produced in the region. There in the room with you, reading just to you, and and Europe. She co-edited the Bloodaxe country of her birth. are also fascinating commentaries on key historical anthology Soul Food (2007) with Neil Astley, sometimes saying a few things about the poems. and worked with him on In Person: 30 figures by the late Alan Myers. This new compilation on DVD with accompanying Poets (2008). Her live performance videos Poets and songwriters range from the first English are included in Bloodaxe DVD-books by 26 October 2017 £9.95 paper anthology covers a wide range of poets from many John Agard and Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze. poet, Caedmon, in the 8th century, to Akenside in 978 1 78037 396 6 80 pages 216 x 138mm the 18th and Swinburne, Skipsey and Armstrong in New Zealand: Victoria University Press POETS INCLUDE: ROBERT ADAMSON, MONIZA ALVI, ANTONELLA ANEDDA, , JEAN ‘BINTA’ BREEZE, DAN the 19th, with Gibson, Auden, Bunting, Reed and CHIASSON, STEWART CONN, KATIE DONOVAN, TISHANI DOSHI, RUTH FAINLIGHT, , CAROLYN FORCHÉ, TUA Raine followed by Harrison, MacSweeney, Silkin, FORSSTRÖM, TESS GALLAGHER, DEBORAH GARRISON, PHILIP GROSS, ROBERT HASS, JOHN HEGLEY, RITA ANN HIGGINS, FLEUR ADCOCK received the Queen’s TONY HOAGLAND, ESTHER JANSMA, JENNY JOSEPH, JAAN KAPLINSKI, KO UN, LULJETA LLESHANAKU, THOMAS LUX, Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for Pickard, Stevenson, Allnutt, O’Brien and Porteous, NIKOLA MADZIROV, MAITREYABANDHU, JACK MAPANJE, SAMUEL MENASHE, JULIE O'CALLAGHAN, LEANNE Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe, 2000). Her and lyricists from Alan Hull to Richard Dawson O'SULLIVAN, ADÉLIA PRADO, CLARE POLLARD, LAWRENCE SAIL, CAROLE SATYAMURTI, KAREN SOLIE, PIOTR SOMMER, later collections with Bloodaxe are RUTH STONE, ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, MATTHEW SWEENEY, PIA TAFDRUP, TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER, BRIAN Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013), The 28 September 2017 £12 paper TURNER, CHASE TWICHELL, PRISCILA UPPAL, TOMAS VENCLOVA, ROBERT WRIGLEY…AND OTHERS Land Ballot (2015) and now Hoard (2017). 978 1 78037 376 8 484 pages 234 x 156mm

4 5 ANA BLANDIANA ROBYN BOLAM NIA DAVIES The Sun of Hereafter Hyem Portobello Sonnets All fours • Ebb of the Senses translated by Paul Scott Derrick & Viorica Patea Robyn Bolam’s new collection, Hyem, explores Portobello, the district in Dublin where the Irish Bodies. Rhythms. Motion. Sounds. All fours is a debut what and who makes us feel at home. Both people, poet Harry Clifton lives, is a microcosm of a collection of poetry from Nia Davies, a book of Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a and creatures – from whales off Kaikoura in New changing, cosmopolitan Ireland. These sonnets, rituals in language that stalk the space between what leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and Zealand, New Forest cicadas, fish in the Thames, written on his return from sixteen years in is uttered and what is meant. These poems are now her country’s strongest candidate for the Nobel wrens, robins and starlings, to a climbing fox – face continental Europe, are at once a celebration of haunted by the strange traces of the longest words Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu challenges to find homes where they can thrive. place, a coming to terms with age and a in the world and folk-mythic figures such as Sinbad, regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, Hyem lets you walk London streets with Dickens or rediscovering of the universal in the local. Eurydice, Mossy Coat, Pan and Baba Yaga. They outspoken poems as well as for her courageous share the last moments of a 17th-century pose riddles with multiple or mysterious answers. ‘There is so much history in Harry Clifton’s poems, defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works helmsman, whose final home is Stockholm’s Vasa so much geography, landscape, cityscape, repeopled A swerving sweary jump into a terrain that is both have become the symbol of an ethical consciousness museum. A wolves’ valley becomes home to surfers precincts of the imagination, so much human drama comically musical and perplexedly political, that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian government. and a high voltage laboratory turns into a creative All fours and comedy’ – C.K. WILLIAMS speaks of the (mis)adventures of sex and human home for a poet. Hyem (home in Geordie) is also This new translation combines her two collections, communication, a life full-to-bursting with burning about growing up on Tyneside, loving a place ‘His dazzlingly accomplished book is arguably the The Sun of Hereafter (2000) and Ebb of the Senses questions. (2004), which mark a turning point in Blandiana’s through changes and celebrating those who first great work of Irish poetic post-modernism… poetic evolution, leading towards a new conception preserve its history and spirit. an Irish voice that is utterly contemporary in its ‘Nia Davies writes rich and adventurous poems. restless movement through time and space.’ Her work feels borderless, influenced by experi- of poetry as a reflection on being that culminates in Hyem is Robyn Bolam’s first book of poetry since – FINTAN O’TOOLE, , on mental American and eastern European poetries’ My Native Land A4 (first published in Romania in her retrospective New Wings: Poems 1977-2007. The Irish Times Secular Eden 2010 and published in English by Bloodaxe in 2014). – DAI GEORGE 23 March 2017 £9.95 paper 16 November 2017 £12 paper 26 October 2017 £9.95 paper 978 1 78037 347 8 48 pages 216 x 138mm 22 June 2017 £9.95 paper 978 1 78037 384 3 136 pages 216 x 138mm 978 1 78037 394 2 72 pages 234 x 156mm North America: Wake Forest University Press 978 1 78037 364 5 80 pages 216 x 138mm

ANA BLANDIANA was born in 1942 in ROBYN BOLAM grew up in Northumber- HARRY CLIFTON was Ireland Professor NIA DAVIES has been editor of Poetry Timisoara, Romania. An almost land and now lives in Hampshire. She is of Poetry in 2010-13. His most recent Wales since 2014. She also co-edits legendary figure, she holds a position in Emeritus Professor at St Mary’s Univer- Bloodaxe titles are The Winter Sleep of Poems in Which and works with the Romanian culture comparable to that sity. Her other books include the anth- Captain Lemass, shortlisted for Irish Times/ international literary projects Literature of and Vaclav Havel ology, Eliza’s Babes: Four Centuries of Poetry Now Award, and The Holding Across Frontiers and Wales Literature in Russian and Czech literature. Women's Poetry in English (Bloodaxe, 2003). Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004. Exchange. She lives in Swansea.

6 7 HELEN DUNMORE MENNA ELFYN CHERYL FOLLON THE MIGHTY STREAM Inside the Wave Bondo Santiago Poems in celebration of WELSH-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION Martin Luther King To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travel- Santiago is a highly unusual, highly entertaining third edited by Carolyn Forché & ling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are Bondo is Menna Elfyn’s latest collection in Welsh collection by a lively young Scottish writer in which concerned with the borderline between the living and English. Her title means in Welsh, referring 81 everyday objects, concerns and states are given eaves When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil and the dead – the underworld and the human living to poems about getting close to language as a voice. law at in 1967, Dr Martin world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. sanctuary. Other poems were written episodically ‘Idiosyncratic, bright as new paint, at times enigmatic, Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they over a number of years. These meditative poems at times as clear as water, Cheryl Follon’s Santiago address, speaking without notes, in which he said: explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage. began simply as a personal engagement with the is a collection – are they prose poems? are they ‘There are three urgent and indeed great problems grief of Aberfan, expressing solidarity with a nation’s Inside the Wave is Helen Dunmore’s 11th book of vignettes? – unexpected and colourful as contem- that we face today…That is the problem of racism, wound. Bondo is also the voice which echoes the poetry, her first since (2012), whose porary life, vivid with dailiness, packed with unusual the problem of poverty and the problem of war.’ The Malarkey role of the Welsh bard as remembrancer. title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. but strangely accessible ways of looking. It is a world As part of a fifty-year anniversary and celebration, All her poetry books have been published by Bloodaxe. Menna Elfyn’s extraordinary international range of in which a museum sapphire, considering, or a well’s this anthology gathers poets from both sides of the her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and surface reflecting the faces of onlookers, have things ‘ is a condition-of-England book, driven Atlantic to address the challenges set out by Dr The Malarkey generosity of vision place her among Europe’s to say to us, and in which subjects various as blood, by a concern for those who have little purchase on King. It’s a shock to think how little has changed, leading poets. Like her previous Bloodaxe titles, Hanoi, a grasshopper, and an exquisitely bored their own lives… Helen Dunmore’s best collection, and that Martin Luther King could well be speaking is a bilingual Welsh-English edition. Again, the Sultan mingle in enlivening juxtaposition. In a poetry the work of a grown-up for grown-ups who will Bondo right here, right now. In the spirit of Dr King and facing English translations are by leading Welsh culture frequently hamstrung by political correctness remember what in the nature of things they’ve had his work as a humanitarian and activist, this poets, in this case Elin ap Hywel, Gillian Clarke, and a sense of the worthy it is also, that increasingly to lose and what nevertheless they seek to celebrate’ anthology brings together poems that offer Damian Walford Davies and Robert Minhinnick. rare thing, an entertaining book.’ – GERRY CAMBRIDGE – SEAN O’BRIEN, The Guardian on The Malarkey powerful testimonies to the urgent issues Dr King defines and represents the polyphony of voices that 27 April 2017 £9.95 paper 26 October 2017 £12 paper 23 February 2017 £9.95 paper speak in resistance to our continuing problems of 978 1 78037 358 4 64 pages 216 x 138mm 978 1 78037 388 1 128 pages 216 x 138mm 978 1 78037 335 5 96 pages 198 x 129mm racism, poverty and war.

HELEN DUNMORE published her first MENNA ELFYN is the best known, most CHERYL FOLLON has published two book, The Apple Fall, with Bloodaxe in travelled and translated Welsh-language previous collections with Bloodaxe, All 1983, before becoming better-known poet. Her other Bloodaxe titles include Your Talk (2004) and Dirty Looks (2010). as a novelist. Her other poetry titles Murmur (2012) and Perfect Blemish: New Born and bred in Ayrshire, she now 16 November 2017 £12 paper include Glad of These Times (2007), and & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau teaches at a college of further education 978 1 78037 392 8 224 pages 216 x 138mm Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001. Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007. in Glasgow. Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 17 8 9 JANE GRIFFITHS PHILIP GROSS SELIMA HILL WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH Silent in Finisterre A Bright Acoustic Splash Like Jesus Alarum

The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a In these restlessly exploratory poems and sequences, Splash Like Jesus brings together three contrasting The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne strong presence in Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by the space between things is never empty, but alive but complementary, familial poem sequences by Holloway-Smith’s first collection Alarum exists in name, in incantation, or described in ways that with messages. Utterly physical even when it is at ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (FIONA the space between the peculiar thought and its recapture their irreducible reality to a child for its most enquiring, Philip Gross’s latest collection SAMPSON), Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers; Lobo- dismissal. It is a place in which commonsense is whom they are the totality of the world, they become contemplates space and sound. Even silence reveals Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His unfixed, where the imagination disrupts notions of a kind of memory theatre: for Jane Griffiths physical itself as multiple and individual. With each book in Bicycle, about exactly that. Like all of Selima Hill’s stability. ‘A single crow falling from the mind’ of the things are remembered both for their own sake his ambitious series since The Water Table, winner work, all three sequences chart ‘extreme exper- poet is something awkward left at our feet, and the and to explore how they continue to shape the self. of the T.S. Eliot Prize, Gross has taken a new step ience with a dazzling excess’ (DERYN REES-JONES), ‘air itself’ is the voice of skewered unease. in mapping where we live, in between language and with startling humour and surprising combinations ‘Jane Griffiths is a poet attracted to the cross- ‘Alarum is a collection composed in the “mournful hatchings of matter and spirit; inner and outer; air the world. A Bright Acoustic looks at and way beyond of homely and outlandish. shadows”, skulking beneath your window at that and water; foreignness and a sense of home…she the human, to a generously environmental view of ‘Hill is a complete original whose body of work is very hour of a sleepless night when you feel most has something of the Dutch still-life painter’s eye: the self in its relationships, at the same time playful unique in British poetry… Each poem tells an alone, to deliver up to you its glorious, melancholy the comprehension of solid form as nothing, finally, and profound uncomfortable truth, through fireworks of surreal verdict on living. By turns abject, bereft, exultant but the effect of light. Sensuously wrought and even, ‘At the heart of all of Gross’s collections has been images. Every image is a surprise, sometimes funny, and belligerent, the poems’ voices reckon with the at times, subtly erotic, her poems simultaneously his deep enquiry into and fascination with the nature usually shocking, but at the same time archetypal as things we can’t get hold of… air, anxiety, heartbreak evoke another level of pure abstraction, with words of embodiment and existence… Characteristic too a brand new fairy-tale, and all this is achieved with …take on an unbearable substance.’ – EMILY BERRY in place of coils of paint.' – ADAM THORPE, Guardian is his focused, sustained approach across the whole crystalline brevity.’ – PASCALE PETIT, chair of the ‘This book is funny, clever, serious, touching, and book.’ – JOHN BURNSIDE & JANE DRAYCOTT, 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize judges, on PBS Bulletin Jutland extraordinarily imaginative.’ – MARK WALDRON

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JANE GRIFFITHS grew up in Holland, and PHILIP GROSS is Professor of Creative SELIMA HILL’s most recent books inc- WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH has been a now teaches English Literature at Writing at Glamorgan University. His lude Gloria: Selected Poems (2008), People been a strong presence on the London Wadham College, Oxford. Her other other titles include The Water Table (2009), Who Like Meatballs (2012), The Sparkling poetry scene for several years, renowned books include her Forward-shortlisted winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, Deep Field Jewel of Naturism (2014), the T.S. Eliot for his wildly imaginative poems and com- Another Country: New & Selected Poems (2011), Later (2013) and Love Songs of Carbon Prize-shortlisted Jutland (2015), and The pelling stage presence. He teaches at the (2008) and by Terrestrial Variations (2012). (2015). He lives in Penarth in South Wales. Magnitude of My Sublime Existence (2016). University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield.

10 11 JOANNE LIMBURG RODDY LUMSDEN MIRIAM NASH GRACE NICHOLS The Autistic Alice So Glad I’m Me All the Prayers in the House The Insomnia Poems

There are two acts of recovery in this book – one In his tenth collection, Lumsden returns to familiar Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of In her latest collection, Grace Nichols explores of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne themes in his work: the trials of oneness versus Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson’s those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, twoness, the seduction of small calamities, and vice family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by, and The Autistic Alice. In its title-sequence she uses Alice versa. And the everyday mysteries, of running water, of the island echo through her first collection, which the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass to salt and sugar, roller skates and back-up flats. holds the rupture and re-imagining of a family at its the lavender-scented pillow. Here memories of her explore her own experiences as a girl and young heart. Shifting and non-linear, the collection travels own Guyana childhood mingle with the sleeping So Glad I’m Me also contains many ‘conflation poems’ woman. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s, where Lumsden knocks the square peg of one sub- far from its coastal opening, moving south, crossing spectres of dreams and folk legends such as she often identified with Alice, a logical and curious ject through the round hole of another, often music- the Atlantic, visiting a women’s prison and a 17th Sleeping Beauty. A lyrical interweaving of tones and child adrift in an arbitrary world. Collaging lines and related. There are poems here about many songs century ladies dictionary. textures invites the reader into the zones between phrases drawn from the two Alice books, she creates and musicians, ranging from cult artists like Alex ‘Miriam Nash’s work is thematically satisfying, sleep and no-sleep, between the solitude of the a disturbingly effective language to express the Chilton and Robin Holcomb to Elvis and Morrissey. energetic and dynamic. These anarchic poems are dark and the awakening of the light. nature, discomfort and alienation of autistic exper- As ever, he relishes unusual words and interesting, the product of an original and febrile mind. A blast.’ ‘Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, iences. In her neurodiverse verse, a text can become taut forms, alongside a new strand of mid-length, – JACKIE KAY, Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016 and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable a rabbit-hole to another world, or a mirror. discursive pieces in the spirit of Chicagoan poets ‘Miriam Nash’s poems provide pleasure through the and clean.’ – GWENDOLYN BROOKS The poems that make up the book’s opening Albert Goldbarth and Marianne Boruch. Lighter and variety and veracity of their subject matter, her ‘Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any sequence, , were written in response less inward looking than his other recent collections, The Oxygen Man insight and freshness of approach, and the warmth number of gifts at her disposal’ – JEANETTE to the death of Limburg’s younger brother, a is Lumsden’s most optimistic and So Glad I’m Me she breathes into them.’ – STEWART CONN, Edwin WINTERSON brilliant chemist who took his own life in 2008. accessible book since The Book of Love. Morgan Poetry Award 2016

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JOANNE LIMBURG’s Femenismo (2000) RODDY LUMSDEN’s recent poetry MIRIAM NASH’s All the Prayers in the GRACE NICHOLS has published two other was shortlisted for the Forward Prize titles include Mischief Night: New & House was runner-up for the Edwin poetry books with Bloodaxe, Picasso, for Best First Collection. Paraphernalia Selected Poems, Third Wish Wasted , Morgan Poetry Award for 2016. She I Want My Face Back (2009) and I Have (2007) was a PBS Recommendation. Her Terrific Melancholy, Not All Honey, and was the first Writer in Residence at Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010). other books include a memoir on OCD, his anthology, Identity Parade. Born and Greenaway, Agatha Christie’s summer Born in Guyana, she came to Britain in anxiety and poetry. She lives in Cambridge. raised in Scotland, he lives in London. home, in 2016. She lives in London. 1979, and lives in Lewes, East Sussex.

12 13 FRANK ORMSBY PASCALE PETIT CLARE POLLARD PENELOPE SHUTTLE The Darkness of Snow Mama Amazonica Incarnation Will you walk a little faster?

The Darkness of Snow is Frank Ormsby’s most varied Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in The poems in Clare Pollard’s new collection are Penelope Shuttle’s new collection explores cities and versatile collection to date. It includes three the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the about our children and the stories that we tell them. (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, substantial sets of refreshingly and sometimes pain- brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, drawing on architecture, history and personal fully new poems. One is a suite of poems – sombre, Petit’s mentally ill mother and the consequences of describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about memory. These are poems drawn from the flipside good-humoured, flippant – about the early stages of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria surveillance at soft play, they blur the personal and of experience, undermining and rebuilding syntax in Parkinson’s Disease. Ormsby was diagnosed as amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untameable political. Pinocchio, Hamelin, Alice and The Tiger who order to precipitate language, and, in the main, having the disease in 2011. Another was prompted creatures – a jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird Came to Tea make appearances alongside biblical abjuring punctuation. The poems also engage both by the work of Irish painters in Normandy, Brittany – as she marries her rapist and gives birth to his tales: the ark, the whale’s belly, the Moses basket in with active and meditative thinking in order to and Belgium at the end of the 19th century. children. From heartbreaking trauma, there emerge the rushes. There are poems for lost daughters – establish a vulnerable and temporary equilibrium; ‘Frank Ormsby belongs to that extraordinary gener- luxuriant and tender portraits of a woman battling Amy Winehouse, Madeleine McCann, the victims of poems more interested in framing questions than ation of Northern Irish poets which includes Ciaran for survival, in poems that echo the plight of others honour killings – and lost sons. There are also arriving at answers. Carson, Medbh McGuckian, and Tom under duress, and of our companion species. Petit poems about innocence and responsibility which ask ‘One of our most compellingly sensuous poets… Paulin. He is a poet of the truest measure… From does not flinch from the violence but offers hope by what it means to bring new human beings into this Shuttle is a poet of immense reach, both in the his earliest work Ormsby has favoured a natural celebrating the beauty of the wild, whether in the world, and how we shape them through our words. range of her subject-matter and the breadth of her shapeliness… A plain-speaking, down-to-earth mind or the natural world. ‘Her work really is emphatically of our time, capturing language… the narratives of emotional, erotic and utterance may be the norm, but it teeters on the ‘Pascale Petit’s Fauverie is astonishing, one of those the world in its beauties and horrors in writing that’s maternal love that can be traced through these verge of taking flight, and sometimes gives way to books that breaks new ground in how to approach technically superb, but which also has what, if I was poems collocate into the drama of a life lived in the an exquisitely refined lyricism.’ – writing about the unwritable.’ – RUTH PADEL, London a sentimental chap, I’d call heart.’ – IAN MCMILLAN, full flood of being.’ – GERARD WOODWARD, TLS Review Bookshop Books of the Year The Verb (BBC Radio 3) 28 September 2017 £9.95 paper 978 1 78037 366 9 128 pages 216 x 138mm 28 September 2017 £9.95 paper 23 February 2017 £9.95 paper 12 May 2017 £9.95 paper North America: Wake Forest University Press 978 1 78037 294 5 112 pages 216 x 138mm 978 1 78037 337 9 72 pages 216 x 138mm 978 1 78037 353 9 112 pages 216 x 138mm

FRANK ORMSBY was editor of The Honest PASCALE PETIT was born in Paris, grew CLARE POLLARD has published six other PENELOPE SHUTTLE has lived in Corn- Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and edited up in France and Wales, and now lives in poetry titles with Bloodaxe, including The wall since 1970. Her retrospective, Unsent: John Hewitt’s Collected Poems (Blackstaff Cornwall. She has published six previous Heavy-Petting Zoo, Bedtime, Look, Clare! New & Selected Poems 1980-2012, appeared Press). His Goat’s Milk: New & Selected collections, including four shortlisted for Look, and Changeling, and her new 21st- in 2012. Published on her 70th birthday, Poems was published by Bloodaxe in the T.S. Eliot Prize, most recently, Fauverie century translation of Ovid’s Heroines. Will you walk a little faster? is her twelfth 2015. He lives in Belfast. (2014). She has won numerous awards. Born in Bolton, she lives in London. collection, her fourth book from Bloodaxe.

14 15 PAULINE STAINER ANNE STEVENSON AHREN WARNER C.K. WILLIAMS Sleeping under the Juniper Tree About Poems Hello. Your promise has been Falling Ill AND HOW POEMS ARE NOT ABOUT extracted Pauline Stainer is a poet ‘working at the margins of Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures Over the past half-century, C.K. Williams took upon the sacred’, conveying sensations ‘with an economy Ahren Warner’s third collection is a book in which himself the poet’s task: to record with candour and of means that is breathtaking… her poems are not These seven lectures by a leading UK/US poet trace the lyric runs in parallel with a series of photographs ardour ‘the burden of being alive’. In Falling Ill, his merely artefacts, they have an organic life of their the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets made by the author across Europe. From Paris, final volume of poems, he brought this task to its own’ (John Burnside). As in all her books, the in American and Britain since the 1930s. Giving Berlin and Budapest, to Athens during the height of conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind’s luminous poems of her ninth collection Sleeping special attention to the voices of T.S. Eliot, Ezra the Greek debt crisis and Kiev in the wake of the encounter with the brute fact of the body’s decay, under the Juniper Tree are minimal but highly charged Pound, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Maidan Revolution, the poems and images of this the spirit’s erasure. – with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit Stevens, Anne Stevenson argues that populist move- book form what Immanuel Kant might have called a Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless dis- incarnate in every part of the living world. ments in the US rose up against a university-based cosmopolitan dialogue: a conversation between cursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly ‘Over the past 20 years, Pauline Stainer has all but establishment after World War Two, introducing a two speakers in two utterly different languages. ‘the dreadful edge of a precipice’ where a futureless barbarian energy into the art while at the same time perfected the art of illumination without demystific- ‘This ground-breaking book develops a startling, future stares back at them. Urgent, unpunctuated, ation, in search of what she calls “the divining destroying its solid base in traditional rhythm and headlong, vertiginous, they race against time to trace form. Other poets covered in depth include Sylvia sometimes fierce, always compassionate engage- shiver”, a phrase that can only gesture towards the ment with the deeply troubled times in which we the sinuous, startling twists and turns of conscious- combination of physical immediacy and numinous Plath, W.B. Yeats, Robert Lowell, Frank O’Hara, ness. Here are no easy resolutions, false consolations. John Ashbery, Denise Levertov and . live. The schema is pitch-perfect in its lyric adapt- wonder that her marvellous poems possess… ations and wholly original in the way it incorporates Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep Stroke by stroke, apprehension by apprehension, Three of these lectures were given in the Newcastle/ a narrative of images to its purpose. This is work interrogation – a dialogue between the agonised ‘I’ in Stainer is building a unique and extraordinary body Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures series, three at Durham that demands our attention, yes, but more – our its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive ‘you’ FRANCES LEVISTON University and one at . of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach. of work.’ – , Guardian involvement.’ – DAVID HARSENT 23 March 2017 £9.95 paper 23 February 2017 £9.95 paper 27 April 2017 £9.95 paper 978 1 78037 345 4 144 pages 216 x 138mm 26 October 2017 £12 paper 52 colour illustrations 978 1 78037 355 3 64 pages 234 x 156mm 978 1 78037 341 6 64 pages 216 x 138mm Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 16 978 1 78037 378 2 128 pages 234 x 156mm North America: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

PAULINE STAINER has published eight ANNE STEVENSON was born in England AHREN WARNER’s Confer (2011) was C.K. WILLIAMS (1936-2015) was the other books with Bloodaxe, including and grew up in the US. Her latest Blood- shortlisted for the Forward Prize for most challenging American poet of his The Lady & the Hare: New & Selected Poems axe titles are Poems 1955-2005 (2005), Best First Collection, and both it and generation. He published a dozen (2003), Crossing the Snowline (2008) and Stone Milk (2007) and Astonishment (2012), Pretty (2013) were PBS Recommend- books in Britain with Bloodaxe, most Tiger Facing the Mist (2013). She lives in and her critical study, Five Looks at Eliza- ations. He is Poetry Editor of Poetry recently, Collected Poems (2006), Wait Hadleigh, Suffolk. beth Bishop (2006). She lives in Durham. London, and lives in London and Paris. (2010) and Writers Writing Dying (2013).

16 17 CHRISSY WILLIAMS TEN YANG LIAN ASHA LUL MOHAMUD YUSUF Bear poets of the new generation Narrative Poem The Sea Migrations: Tahriib edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf translated by Brian Holton translated by Clare Pollard with The lively ‘bears’ in this playful and poignant CHINESE-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION Mohamed Xasan ‘Alto’ & Said Jama Hussein collection will surprise you on every page. They are Presenting the work of ten exciting British poets SOMALI-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The from diverse backgrounds, this is the third anthology Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, ephemera of popular culture is used to confront from The Complete Works poetry mentoring Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in mortality, and you’ll be transported from the scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional influential poets in China. Narrative Poem, his most exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as British Library to the Alps to the International black and Asian poets founded in 2007 by Bernardine personal work to date, draws on a series of family one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well Space Station, along with a vibrant cast of Vikings, Evaristo. Already making a big impact on the British photographs, the first of these taken on the day of as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still videogames and Angela Lansbury. From the poetry scene, poets from the series have included his birth, 22 February 1955, and the last dating from largely dominated by men. She is a master of the ludicrous to the domestic, these profound, wry and Sarah Howe, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; Mona the time he spent under-going ‘re-education through major Somali poetic forms, including the prestigious very real bears affirm that hope may be found even Arshi, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First labour’ – and digging graves – during the mid-1970s. gabay, by which she presents compelling arguments in our darkest moments. Collection 2016; and Warsan Shire, who collaborated The book weaves together lived experience with with astonishing feats of alliteration. The key to her with Beyoncé on her visual album Lemonade in 2016. meditations on time, consciousness, history, international popularity is in her spirit and message: ‘In spite of its almost absurdist character and her poems are classical in construction but they are This latest anthology in the series includes poets language, memory and desire, in a search for apparent playfulness, Chrissy Williams’s Bear is a Ten unmistakeably contemporary, and they engage with even more diverse backgrounds, ranging from new/old ways of speaking, thinking and living. collection of poems that deal with all that is most passionately with the themes of war and Somalia and Nigeria through to Jamaica and the multi- 敘事詩 serious in human life. From start to finish, these Narrative Poem, or (Xùshìsh ), was published displacement which have touched the lives of an culturalism of Macau, and features the first poet from ī wonderfully various, entertaining and original in China in 2011. This edition presents the Chinese entire generation of Somalis. poems speak the language of compassion, intimacy Latin America. These are poets who interrogate text alongside Brian Holton’s masterly translation The mesmerising poems in this landmark collection and faith.’ – ANNIE FREUD race and explode any ideas of a page/stage divide. of a technically complex work of great beauty. Fierce, unexpected, sometimes beautiful and always are brought to life in English by award-winning passionate, here are ten poets to savour and enjoy. 22 June 2017 £15 paper Bloodaxe poet Clare Pollard. 25 May 2017 £9.95 paper The poets included are: Raymond Antrobus, 978 1 78037 351 5 272 pages 234 x 156mm 978 1 78037 332 4 64 pages 216 x 138mm Natacha Bryan, Leo Boix, Victoria Bulley, Will 16 November 2017 £12 paper 978 1 78037 398 0 160 pages 216 x 138mm CHRISSY WILLIAMS has published several Harris, Ian Humphreys, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Momtaza YANG LIAN lives in London and Berlin. Copublisher: The Poetry Translation Centre pamphlets, one shortlisted for a Michael Mehri, Yomi Sode and Degna Stone. He has published three other collections Marks Award. Bear is her first book- with Bloodaxe, Where the Sea Stands Still, The Poetry Translation Centre translates, publishes and tours contemporary poets from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Through innovative collaborations length collection. She directs the annual 16 November 2017 £9.95 paper Concentric Circles and Lee Valley Poems, between international poets and English-language poets, the PTC aims to poetry bookfair, Free Verse, works as a 978 1 78037 382 9 160 pages 216 x 138mm and co-edited the Bloodaxe anthology introduce new audiences to poetry from around the world and celebrate comics editor, and lives in London. 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On the Motion and Briggflatts WITH DVD & CD AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (1918-2008) (1941-2008) With Bunting’s reading of KATIE DONOVAN Immobility of Douve Return to My Native Land JACK COMMON (1903-68) The Butterfly’s Burden Briggflatts on CD and Peter Bell’s Off Duty Du mouvement et de Cahier d’un retour au pays natal Kiddar’s Luck translated by Fady Joudah film portrait of Bunting on DVD. Saif-Ghobash–Banipal Prize £9.95. 978 1 78037 316 4. 96pp. 2016. l’immobilité de Douve tr. Mireille Rosello with Annie Pritchard Autobiographical novel of working- translated by £12. 978 1 85224 826 0. 80pp. 2009. Arabic-English dual language edition. French-English dual language edition. class childhood in Newcastle. Rootling £12. 978 1 85224 788 1. 344pp. 2007. French-English dual language edition. Complete Poems Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 4 £9.95. 978 1 85224 127 8. 160pp. 1990. New & Selected Poems £9.95. 978 1 85224 184 1. 160pp. 1995. North America: Copper Canyon Press. HARRY CLIFTON Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 1 £12. 978 1 85224 527 6. 248pp. 2000. £10.95. 978 1 85224 881 9. 192pp. 2010. IMTIAZ DHARKER £7.95. 978 1 85224 132 2. 192pp. 1992. North America: New Directions.

BLOODAXE BOOKS COMPLETE LIST 22 23 Dooley – Farish COMPLETE LIST COMPLETE LIST Fischerová – Griffiths MAURA DOOLEY MENNA ELFYN & SYLVA FISCHEROVÁ MIRIAM GAMBLE The Man in the White Suit Blue Hour Life Under Water Forward Prize for Best First Collection JOHN ROWLANDS (eds.) The Swing in the Middle £7.95. 978 1 85224 618 1. 80pp. 2003. Pirate Music Poetry Book Society Recommendation £7.95. 978 1 85224 488 0. 64pp. 1999. The Bloodaxe Book of of Chaos North America: HarperCollins. £9.95. 978 1 78037 113 9. 72pp. 2014. £7.95. 978 1 85224 817 8. 64pp. 2008. JEHANNE DUBROW: See Bryony Doran. Modern Welsh Poetry Selected Poems CAROLYN FORCHÉ translated by Sylva Fischerová The Squirrels Are Dead SASHA DUGDALE, DAVID & 20th-century Welsh language Somerset Maugham Award The Silvering & Stuart Friebert & JACKIE KAY (eds.) Poetry Book Society Recommendation poetry in translation £7.95. 978 1 85224 868 0. 64pp. 2010. HELEN CONSTANTINE £8.95. 978 1 85224 859 8. 96pp. 2010. £9.95. 978 1 78037 094 1. 64pp. 2016. (eds.) Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation The Mighty Stream KATIE DONOVAN ELIZABETH GARRETT RUTH FAINLIGHT Centres of Cataclysm £10.95. 978 1 85224 549 8. 448pp. 2003. MARK FISHER poems in celebration of Sound Barrier (ed.) Martin Luther King Celebrating Fifty Years A Two-Part Invention Poems 1982-2002 Modern Poetry in Translation HANS MAGNUS Hwaet! Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 17. of £6.95. 978 1 85224 462 0. 56pp. 1998. £8.95. 978 1 85224 578 8. 160pp. 2002. £15. 978 1 85224 264 8. 384pp. 2016. ENZENSBERGER 20 Years of Ledbury Poetry Festival £12. 978 1 78037 392 8. 224pp. 2017. GAWAIN: See W.S. Merwin. The Honey Gatherers (ed.) HELEN DUNMORE New Selected Poems £9.99. 978 1 78037 313 3. 272pp. 2016. TUA FORSSTRÖM A Book of Love Poems translated by Michael Hamburger, David Constantine, ROY FISHER I studied once at DEBORAH GARRISON Anthology of classic poems. Glad of These Times £7.95. 978 1 85224 758 4. 56pp. 2007. & Esther Kinsky a wonderful faculty The Second Child £9.95. 978 1 85224 359 3. 320pp. 2003. The Long and the Short of It translated by David McDuff German-English dual language edition. £7.95. 978 1 85224 798 0. 64pp. 2008. Inside the Wave Poems 1955-2010 NEW EDITION and Stina Katchadourian BRYONY DORAN, £15. 978 1 78037 250 1. 352pp. 2015. North America: Random House MAURA DOOLEY £9.95. 978 1 78037 358 4. 64pp. 2017. Includes Standard Midland. ROY FISHER JEHANNE DUBROW, £8.95. 978 1 85224 649 5. 136pp. 2006. The Malarkey £15. 978 1 85224 959 5. 432pp. 2012. JACK GILBERT ELYSE FENTON, One Evening in October (1925-2012) Poetry Book Society Recommendation Lara Slakki ISABEL PALMER £8.95. 978 1 85224 940 3. 72pp. 2012. I Rowed Out on the Lake Transgressions Novel-in-verse based on Evaristo’s New & Neglected Poems translated by David McDuff Selected Poems edited by Peter Robinson Home Front Out of the Blue own childhood and family history. Swedish-English dual language edition. £9.95. 978 1 85224 752 2. 176pp. 2006. 1975-2001 £9.95. 978 1 85224 831 4. 192pp. 2009. £9.95. 978 1 78037 322 5. 80pp. 2016. Four collections by mothers or Poems £9.95. 978 1 78037 114 6. 80pp. 2015. North America: Knopf wives separated from loved ones £10.95. 978 1 85224 576 4. 256pp. 2001. BERNARDINE EVARISTO CHERYL FOLLON JANET FRAME DESMOND GRAHAM involved in conflicts overseas. G.F. DUTTON (1924-2010) & (1924-2004) £12. 978 1 78037 326 3. 256pp. 2016. (eds.) HELEN DUNMORE All Your Talk Storms Will Tell Making Poems and Their Meanings CAROLYN FORCHÉ The Bare Abundance Ten £7.95. 978 1 85224 658 7. 64pp. 2004. Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures TISHANI DOSHI Selected Poems 1975-2001 Selected Poems new poets from Spread the Word Literary criticism. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Dirty Looks £12. 978 1 85224 789 8. 234pp. 2008. Everything Begins Elsewhere Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 6 £8.95. 978 1 85224 589 3. 160pp. 2002. Multicultural poets anthology. £7.95. 978 1 85224 865 9. 64pp. 2010. £9.95. 978 1 85224 936 6. 72pp. 2012. ANDRÉ FRÉNAUD (1907-93) £7.95. 978 1 85224 761 4. 64pp. 2007. India: Harper Collins USA: Copper Canyon. MENNA ELFYN £8.95. 978 1 85224 879 6. 128pp. 2010. Santiago Rome the Sorceress ANDREW GREIG £9.95. 978 1 78037 335 5. 96pp. 2017. FREDA DOWNIE (1929-93) Bondo RUTH FAINLIGHT La Sorcière de Rome Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation As Though We Were Flying Welsh-English dual language edition. New & Collected Poems PETER FORBES Collected Poems (ed.) translated by Keith Bosley £9.95. 978 1 85224 916 8. 64pp. 2011. edited by George Szirtes £12. 978 1 78037 388 1. 128pp. 2017. £20. 978 1 85224 885 7. 544pp. 2010. We Have Come Through French-English dual language edition. MENNA ELFYN £8.95. 978 1 85224 301 2. 192pp. 1995. Murmur HELEN FARISH This Life, This Life JANET FRAME 100 poems celebrating courage in Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 7 Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation New & Selected Poems 1970-2006 (1924-2004) overcoming depression & trauma £8.95. 978 1 85224 318 0. 128pp. 1996. There’ll Always Be an England Welsh-English dual language edition. The Dog of Memory £12. 978 1 85224 713 3. 208pp. 2006. £9.95. 978 1 78037 318 8. 88pp. 2016. A Poet’s Childhood, 1929-1945 £9.95. 978 1 85224 944 1. 128pp. 2012. £8.95. 978 1 85224 619 8. 144pp. 2003. CYNTHIA FULLER: See Julia Darling. Illustrated memoir. Nocturnes at Nohant Co-published with Survivors’ Poetry. JANE GRIFFITHS £7.95. 978 1 85224 476 7. 160pp. 2003. Perfect Blemish TESS GALLAGHER New & Selected Poems 1995-2007 The Decade of Chopin and Sand CAROLYN FORCHÉ Another Country NICK DRAKE Perffaith Nam £8.95. 978 1 85224 941 0. 72pp. 2012. Midnight Lantern New & Selected Poems The Angel of History New & Selected Poems Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Los Angeles Times Book Prize £9.95. 978 1 85224 794 2. 152pp. 2008. The Farewell Glacier ELYSE FENTON: See Bryony Doran. Newydd 1995-2007 £12. 978 1 85224 934 2. 352pp. 2012. £9.95. 978 1 85224 933 5. 64pp. 2012. £7.95. 978 1 85224 307 4. 96pp. 1994. North America: Graywolf Press Silent in Finisterre Welsh-English dual language edition. North America: HarperCollins. HANS MAGNUS From the Word Go £9.95. 978 1 78037 356 0. 72pp. 2017. TESS GALLAGHER ENZENSBERGER £7.95. 978 1 85224 714 0. 56pp. 2007. £12. 978 1 85224 779 9. 304pp. 2007.

24 BLOODAXE BOOKS COMPLETE LIST 25 Griffiths – Herbert COMPLETE LIST COMPLETE LIST Herbert – Holub JANE GRIFFITHS (cont) JEN HADFIELD KEVIN HART W.N. HERBERT & Jutland TONY HOAGLAND Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Terrestrial Variations Almanacs Young Rain YANG LIAN (eds.) Application for Release £9.95. 978 1 78037 149 8. 112pp. 2015. £8.95. 978 1 85224 927 4. 64pp. 2012. £9.95. 978 1 85224 687 7. 80pp. 2005. £9.95. 978 1 85224 829 1. 80pp. 2009. with Brian Holton & Qin Xiaoyu from the Dream Australia: Giramondo. Nigh-No-Place The Magnitude of £9.95. 978 1 78037 298 3. 96pp. 2015. PHILIP GROSS USA: University of Notre Dame Press. Jade Ladder Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize Contemporary Chinese Poetry My Sublime Existence North America: Graywolf Press Poetry Book Society Recommendation A Bright Acoustic ROBERT HASS £12. 978 1 85224 895 6. 360pp. 2012. £9.95. 978 1 78037 305 8. 80pp. 2016. £9.95. 978 1 78037 368 3. 96pp. 2017. £9.95. 978 1 85224 793 5. 64pp. 2008. Unincorporated Persons PHILIP GROSS The Apple Trees at Olema TRACEY HERD People Who Like Meatballs in the Late Honda Dynasty RITA ANN HIGGINS Changes of Address JOHN HALLIDAY (ed.) New & Selected Poems £9.95. 978 1 85224 945 8. 128pp. 2012. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Poems 1980-1998 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Dead Redhead £8.95. 978 1 85224 872 7. 96pp. 2010. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Don’t Bring Me No Rocking Chair Poetry Book Society Recommendation The Sparkling Jewel poems on ageing £15. 978 1 85224 897 0. 368pp. 2011. North America: Graywolf Press £9.95. 978 1 85224 572 6. 224pp. 2001. North America: Ecco Press. £7.95. 978 1 85224 565 8. 80pp. 2001. of Naturism £9.95. 978 1 85224 987 8. 208pp. 2013. £9.95. 978 1 78037 103 0. 96pp. 2014. What Narcissism Means to Me Deep Field Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 14 The Essential Haiku (ed.) No Hiding Place Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Recommendation Splash Like Jesus versions of Basho, Buson & Issa £6.95. 978 1 85224 381 4. 64pp. 1996. £8.95. 978 1 85224 689 1. 144pp. 2005. £8.95. 978 1 85224 919 9. 64pp. 2011. NATHAN HAMILTON £12. 978 1 78037 349 2. 224pp. 2017. (ed.) £12. 978 1 85224 972 4. 320pp. 2013. Not in This World North America: Graywolf Press The Egg of Zero Dear World & Everyone In It North America: HarperCollins. Poetry Book Society Choice ELLEN HINSEY £7.95. 978 1 85224 726 3. 80pp. 2006. FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN CHOMAN HARDI new poetry in the UK JOHN HEGLEY £9.95. 978 1 85224 894 9. 80pp. 2015. SELIMA HILL Later £12. 978 1 85224 949 6. 336pp. 2013. Update on the Descent (1770-1843) £9.95. 978 1 85224 979 3. 80pp. 2013. New & Selected Potatoes MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ £8.95. 978 1 85224 833 8. 104pp. 2009. New Selected Poems USA: University of Notre Dame Press. Love Songs of Carbon CHOMAN HARDI £9.95. 978 1 85224 978 6. 160pp. 2013. European Poetry Translation Prize I Have Lots of Heart translated by David Constantine Roland Mathias Poetry Award W.N. HERBERT Selected Poems The White Fire of Time Poetry Book Society Recommendation Considering the Women Poetry Book Society Recommendation translated by Don Share £7.95. 978 1 85224 612 9. 104pp. 2003. Forthcoming expanded edition £9.95. 978 1 78037 258 7. 80pp. 2015. £9.95. 978 1 78037 278 5. 72pp. 2015. Cabaret McGonagall Spanish-English dual language edition. USA: Wesleyan University Press. including Hölderlin’s Sophocles: £7.95. 978 1 85224 353 1. 128pp. 1996. and Mappa Mundi £12. 978 1 85224 332 6. 160pp. 1997. JANE HIRSHFIELD Oedipus Antigone. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Life for Us The Laurelude £15. 978 1 78037 401 7. 320pp. 2018. £7.95. 978 1 85224 622 8. 80pp. 2003. £7.95. 978 1 85224 644 0. 64pp. 2004. Poetry Book Society Recommendation RITA ANN HIGGINS After £8.95. 978 1 85224 464 4. 160pp. 1998. Poetry Book Society Choice MATTHEW HOLLIS The Water Table KERRY HARDIE JANE HIRSHFIELD Ireland Is Changing Mother £8.95. 978 1 85224 741 6. 96pp. 2006. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize Omnesia Ground Water Poetry Book Society Recommendation £9.95. 978 1 85224 905 2. 72pp. 2011. North America: HarperCollins £9.95. 978 1 85224 852 9. 64pp. 2009. Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Recommendation £9.95. 978 1 85224 890 1. 104pp. 2011. ALTERNATIVE TEXT Throw in the Vowels The Beauty Ireland & Northern Ireland: Gallery Press £9.95. 978 1 85224 962 5. 176pp. 2013. £7.95. 978 1 85224 657 0. 64pp. 2004. GUILLEVIC (1907-97) New & Selected Poems + AUDIO CD £9.95. 978 1 78037 246 4. 104pp. 2015. North America: rights reserved REMIX £12. 978 1 85224 700 3. 224pp. 2005. North America: Alfred A. Knopf MATTHEW HOLLIS: See also W.N. Herbert. Carnac £9.95. 978 1 85224 969 4. 176pp. 2013. translated by The Zebra Stood in the Night Tongulish Come, Thief WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH French-English dual language edition. £9.95. 978 1 78037 111 5. 80pp. 2014. W.N. HERBERT & £9.95. 978 1 78037 303 4. 96pp. 2016. £9.95. 978 1 85224 924 3. 96pp. 2012. Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 9 MATTHEW HOLLIS North America: Alfred A. Knopf Alarum TONY HARRISON (eds.) SELIMA HILL JOHN HEGLEY £8.95. 978 1 85224 393 7. 160pp. 1999. Each Happiness Ringed by Lions £9.95. 978 1 78037 330 0. 64pp. 2017. TONY HOAGLAND . Strong Words SELINA GUINNESS modern poets on modern poetry Fruitcake Selected Poems (ed.) Includes press articles, photos and MIROSLAV HOLUB (1923-98) £9.95. 978 1 85224 848 2. 240pp. 2009. £12. 978 1 85224 693 8. 248pp. 2005. The New Irish Poets a defence by director Richard Eyre. Comprehensive selection of mani- festos and essays by some of mod- Gloria North America: HarperCollins Poems Before & After £10.95. 978 1 85224 673 0. 336pp. 2004. £9.95. 978 0 906427 97 2. 1985. Collected English Translations ern poetry’s finest practitioners: Selected Poems Hiddenness, Uncertainty, LARS GUSTAFSSON Second edition 1989: 80pp. translated by Ian & Jarmila Milner, Ewald Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Graves, Frost, £12. 978 1 85224 805 5. 336pp. 2008. Surprise: Three Generative Osers, George Theiner, David Young, Dana J.S. HARRY Selected Poems (1939-2015) Auden, Stein, Stevens, Lowell, Plath, The Hat Energies of Poetry Hábová, Rebekah Bloyd & Miroslav Holub translated by John Irons Not Finding Wittgenstein Bishop and other key figures. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures NEW EXPANDED EDITION Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Peter Henry Lepus Poems £12. 978 1 85224 515 3. 320pp. 2000. £7.95. 978 1 85224 806 2. 64pp. 2008. Literary criticism. £15. 978 1 85224 747 8. 440pp. 2006. W.N. HERBERT Dual language ebook available. £10.95. 978 1 85224 928 1. 240pp. 2012. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 7 MIROSLAV HOLUB £12. 978 1 85224 997 7. 176pp. 2015. Australia: Giramondo. £7.95. 978 1 85224 797 3. 64pp. 2008. (1923-98)

BLOODAXE BOOKS COMPLETE LIST 26 27 Holub – Kelley COMPLETE LIST COMPLETE LIST Kennelly – Longley MIROSLAV HOLUB (cont) PHILIPPE JACCOTTET KAPKA KASSABOVA DAVID KELLEY: See also Gérard Macé. JANE KENYON (1947-95) (1928-2015) The Jingle Bell Principle Under Clouded Skies Geography for the lost Let Evening Come Stranger to Nothing translated by James Naughton BRENDAN KENNELLY WITH Beauregard £7.95. 978 1 85224 765 2. 64pp. 2007. Selected Poems Selected Poems Brilliant, blackly funny “essaylets”. Pensées sous les nuages / Beauregard Australia & New Zealand: Auckland U.P. Blood Wedding (LORCA) Poetry Book Society Recommendation Poetry Book Society Special Commendation £7.95. 978 1 85224 123 0. 128pp. 1992. translated by Mark Treharne Someone else’s life £6.95. 978 1 85224 355 5. 80pp. 1996. Bloodaxe World Poets: 3 £12. 978 1 85224 737 9. 176pp. 2006. & David Constantine £7.95. 978 1 85224 617 4. 88pp. 2003. THE BOOK OF JUDAS: £8.95. 978 1 85224 697 6. 176pp. 2005. North America: Knopf FRANCES HOROVITZ (1938-83) French-English dual language edition. Australia & New Zealand: Auckland U.P. See The Little Book of Judas. North America: Graywolf Press GWYNETH LEWIS FRIEDA HUGHES Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 5 GALWAY KINNELL Collected Poems J. KATES Cromwell KIM HYESOON (1927-2014) edited by Roger Garfitt £8.95. 978 1 85224 259 6. 160pp. 1994. (ed.) £8.95. 978 1 85224 026 4. 160pp. 1987. Chaotic Angels WITH AUDIO CD In the Grip of Strange Thoughts I’m OK, I’m Pig! Poems in English KATHLEEN JAMIE translated by Don Mee Choi £12. 978 1 85224 925 0. 128pp. 2011. Russian poetry in a new era The Essential £12. 978 1 85224 723 2. 192pp. 2005. Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead foreword by Mikhail Aizenberg Brendan Kennelly £12. 978 1 78037 102 3. 160pp. 2014. FRIEDA HUGHES Poems 1980-1994 Russian-English dual language edition. Selected Poems WITH AUDIO CD North America: Action Books. A Hospital Odyssey Poetry Book Society Special Commendation £12.95. 978 1 85224 478 1. 446pp. 1999. ed. Terence Brown & Michael Longley £12. 978 1 85224 877 2. 160pp. 2010. Alternative Values GALWAY KINNELL (1927-2014) £12. 978 1 85224 586 3. 160pp. 2002. North America: Zephyr Press £12. 978 1 85224 904 5. 160pp. 2011. & Quantum Poetics Poems Paintings USA: Wake Forest U.P. Selected Poems Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures £12. 978 1 78037 266 2. 112pp. 2015. ESTHER JANSMA JACKIE KAY Winner of the Pulitzer Prize JAAN KAPLINSKI With 60 colour illustrations by Frieda Hughes Familiar Strangers Literary criticism. KO UN The Adoption Papers £9.95. 978 1 85224 541 2. 192pp. 2001. What It Is New & Selected Poems 1960-2004 North America: Houghton Mifflin £9.95. 978 1 78037 070 5. 64pp. 2015. Poems 1999-2009 £9.95. 978 1 85224 156 8. 64pp. 1991. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 15 Forthcoming selections from Selected Poems £12. 978 1 85224 663 1. 496pp. 2004. translated by Francis R. Jones Darling Strong Is Your Hold Wooroloo, Stonepicker, Waxworks Poetry Book Society Recommendation Sparrow Tree £8.95. 978 1 85224 780 5. 96pp. 2008. Glimpses New & Selected Poems Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2012 and The Book of Mirrors. Poetry Book Society Recommendation £8.95. 978 1 85224 562 7. 96pp. 2001. WITH AUDIO CD £15. 978 1 78037 403 1. 384pp. 2018. JENNY JOSEPH £12. 978 1 85224 777 5. 240pp. 2007. £8.95. 978 1 85224 768 3. 72pp. 2007. £8.95. 978 1 85224 899 4. 64pp. 2011. Guff North America: Houghton Mifflin KIM HYESOON: See Kim. Extended Similes JACKIE KAY, £9.95. 978 1 85224 983 0. 160pp. 2013. YANG LIAN: See YANG. £9.95. 978 1 85224 302 9. 224pp. 1997. ARUN KOLATKAR (1931-2004) HELEN IVORY JAMES PROCTER & Journey into Joy JOANNE LIMBURG JACKIE KAY Collected Poems in English DENISE LEVERTOV Extreme of things GEMMA ROBINSON (eds.) Selected Prose The Autistic Alice The Breakfast Machine £8.95. 978 1 85224 681 5. 104pp. 2006. edited by Åke Persson edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (1923-97) £7.95. 978 1 85224 873 4. 64pp. 2010. £9.95. 978 1 85224 343 0. 72pp. 2017. Out of Bounds £10.95. 978 1 85224 210 7. 272pp. 1994. £15. 978 1 85224 853 6. 384pp. 2010. Selected Poems British Black & Asian Poets India: Pras Prakashan Paraphernalia The Dog in the Sky This edition – including her much- £12. 978 1 85224 929 8. 368pp. 2012. The Little Book of Judas Poetry Book Society Recommendation £7.95. 978 1 85224 717 1. 64pp. 2006. loved poem ‘Warning’ – is drawn £8.95. 978 1 85224 584 9. 224pp. 2002. KO UN £7.95. 978 1 85224 754 6. 64pp. 2007. See also Carolyn Forché. Waiting for Bluebeard from Joseph’s first four collections. JACKIE KAY: First Person Sorrowful Martial Art ANGELA LIVINGSTONE: See Marina Tsvetaeva. £9.95. 978 1 85224 975 5. 112pp. 2013. £8.95. 978 1 85224 095 0. 160pp. 1992. translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé GARRISON KEILLOR £7.95. 978 1 85224 621 1. 96pp. 2003. & Lee Sang-Wha ATTILA JÓZSEF LULJETA LLESHANAKU A.B. JACKSON (1905-37) 77 Love Sonnets Now £9.95. 978 1 85224 953 3. 152pp. 2012. BRENDAN KENNELLY The Iron-Blue Vault WITH TWO AUDIO CDS £8.95. 978 1 85224 749 2. 104pp. 2006. Haywire GWYNETH LEWIS The Wilderness Party Maninbo New & Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Recommendation Selected Poems Garrison Keillor reads (or sings) all Reservoir Voices Peace & War Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation £9.95. 978 1 78037 260 0. 72pp. 2015. translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth the poems, music by Rich Dworsky. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation £8.95. 978 1 85224 836 9. 96pp. 2009. translated by Henry Israeli, Shpresa Qatapi, & Frederick Turner translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé £12. 978 1 85224 900 7. 104pp. 2011. £14.95 cloth. 978 1 85224 835 2. Luljeta Lleshanaku & others SARAH JACKSON £9.95. 978 1 85224 503 0. 160pp. 1999. USA: Common Good / HighBridge Audio. & Lee Sang-Wha £9.95. 978 1 85224 913 7. 160pp. 2011. When Then Is Now £15. 978 1 78037 242 6. 272pp. 2015. Pelt JAAN KAPLINSKI DAVID KELLEY & North America: New Directions. Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry Three Greek Tragedies JEAN KHALFA DENISE LEVERTOV £9.95. 978 1 85224 931 1. 72pp. 2012. Selected Poems (eds.) Kennelly’s modern versions (1923-97) EDNA LONGLEY translated by Jaan Kaplinski with Sam The New French Poetry Euripides’ The Trojan Women and New Selected Poems Hamill, Hildi Hawkins & Fiona Sampson Poetry & Posterity KIM HYESOON French-English dual language edition. Medea, and Sophocles’ Antigone. £9.95. 978 1 85224 653 2. 240pp. 2003. Literary criticism. LULJETA £12. 978 1 85224 889 5. 256pp. 2011. £10.95. 978 1 85224 260 2. 320pp. 1996. £12. 978 1 85224 743 0. 208pp. 2006. North America: New Directions. £10.95. 978 1 85224 435 4. 352pp. 2000. LLESHANAKU

28 BLOODAXE BOOKS COMPLETE LIST 29 Longley – Mapanje COMPLETE LIST COMPLETE LIST Margarit – Neruda EDNA LONGLEY GEORGE MACBETH & JOAN MARGARIT W.S. MERWIN TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI (cont) SARAH MAGUIRE (ed.) MARTIN BOOTH (1931-2011) The Bloodaxe Book of (eds.) My Voice Love Is a Place Garden Time translated by Anna Crowe Poetry Book Society Recommendation 20th Century Poetry The Book of Cats A Decade of Poems from So What & 1971-2005 from Britain and Ireland (ed.) £8.95. 978 1 85224 163 6. 376pp. 1991. the Poetry Translation Centre £12. 978 1 78037 328 7. 192pp. 2016. £9.95. 978 1 78037 315 7. 80pp. 2016. New Selected Poems £12. 978 1 85224 514 6. 368pp. 2000. North America: Copper Canyon Press Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF: See Woolf. Multilingual parallel text edition. Strangely Happy translated by Peter Cole, EDNA LONGLEY: See also . £12. 978 1 78037 107 8. 384pp. 2014. translated by Anna Crowe The Moon Before Morning Yahya Hijazi & Gabriel Levin MACGILLIVRAY Copublisher: The Poetry Translation Centre. Poetry Book Society Recommendation HANNAH LOWE MICHAEL LONGLEY: See Fran Brearton, £9.95. 978 1 85224 893 2. 144pp. 2011. Arabic-English dual language edition. W.S. MERWIN Brendan Kennelly & Frank Ormsby £12. 978 1 78037 101 6. 128pp. 2014. The Nine of Diamonds SARAH MAGUIRE: See also Al-Saddiq Al- £12. 978 1 85224 792 8. 224pp. 2007. Surroial Mordantless Raddi. Tugs in the Fog North America: Copper Canyon Press North America: Copper Canyon Press. FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Selected Poems £9.95. 978 1 78037 324 9. 96pp. 2016. Selected Poems See Clare Wills. JENNIFER MAIDEN Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation PAUL MULDOON: Blood Wedding translated by Anna Crowe £12. 978 1 85224 769 0. 184pp. 2007. new version by Brendan Kennelly KONA MACPHEE North America: Copper Canyon Press. Intimate Geography £9.95. 978 1 85224 751 5. 176pp. 2006. £6.95. 978 1 85224 355 5. 80pp. 1996. 1991-2010 Perfect Blue Selected Poems See Brendan Kennelly. The Shadow of Sirius The Pleasure Ground Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize MARTIAL: HANNAH LOWE £10.95. 978 1 85224 926 7. 256pp. 2012. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Poems 1952-2012 £7.95. 978 1 85224 866 6. 64pp. 2010. Australia: Giramondo. ISABEL MARTIN: See Peter Reading. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Chan WILLIAM MARTIN £12. 978 1 85224 854 3. 128pp. 2009. £12. 978 1 85224 986 1. 288pp. 2013. THOMAS LUX £9.95. 978 1 78037 283 9. 72pp. 2016. Tails MAITREYABANDHU (1925-2010) North America: Copper Canyon Press. Ireland & USA: Lilliput Press. PABLO NERUDA £7.95. 978 1 85224 660 0. 64pp. 2004. (1904-73) Lammas Alanna The Crumb Road W.S. MERWIN DALJIT NAGRA See Bernardine Evaristo. Chick £7.95. 978 1 85224 369 2. 128pp. 2000. (trs.) : Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2015 What Long Miles Poetry Book Society Recommendation £8.95. 978 1 85224 965 6. 64pp. 2013. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight ÁGNES NEMES NAGY £9.95. 978 1 85224 960 1. 72pp. 2013. £9.95. 978 1 85224 974 8. 80pp. 2013. Marra Familia (1922-91) £6.95. 978 1 85224 221 3. 64pp. 1993. Dual language edition. BARRY MACSWEENEY Yarn The Night of Akhenaton RODDY LUMSDEN £8.95. 978 1 85224 634 1. 192pp. 2003. (1948-2000) £9.95. 978 1 78037 262 4. 112pp. 2015. MARAM AL-MASSRI: See AL-MASSRI. North America: Knopf. Selected Poems Mischief Night Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Wolf Tongue OSIP MANDELSTAM translated by George Szirtes New & Selected Poems HARRY MARTINSON (1904-78) 1965-2000 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Selected Poems (1891-1938) NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 1974 (1932-2008) £8.95. 978 1 85224 641 9. 96pp. 2004. NIKOLA MADZIROV £15. 978 1 85224 666 2. 352pp. 2003. GRACE NICHOLS £8.95. 978 1 85224 672 3. 176pp. 2004. The Moscow and Voronezh Chickweed Wintergreen Come On Everybody MIRIAM NASH BARRY MACSWEENEY See Paul Batchelor. Not All Honey : Notebooks Selected Poems Poems 1953-2008 translated by Richard & Elizabeth McKane £15. 978 1 85224 946 5. 432pp. 2012. £9.95. 978 1 78037 112 2. 128pp. 2014. GÉRARD MACÉ Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation All the Prayers in the House introduction by Victor Krivulin Bernard Shaw Prize for Swedish Translation £9.95. 978 1 78037 362 1. 64pp. 2017. So Glad I’m Me Wood Asleep £9.95. 978 1 85224 631 0. 224pp. 2003. translated by Robin Fulton KENJI MIYAZAWA (1896-1933) PABLO NERUDA £9.95. 978 1 78037 370 6. 104pp. 2017. Bois dormant £10.95. 978 1 85224 887 1. 192pp. 2010. Strong in the Rain (1904-73) translated by David Kelley JACK MAPANJE Selected Poems NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 1971 Terrific Melancholy introduction by Jean-Pierre Richard £8.95. 978 1 85224 908 3. 64pp. 2011. Beasts of Nalunga translated by Roger Pulvers The Essential Neruda French-English dual language edition. £9.95. 978 1 85224 771 3. 64pp. 2007. The Boys at Twilight £12. 978 1 85224 781 2. 128pp. 2007. Selected Poems Third Wish Wasted Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 8 edited by Mark Eisner JACK MAPANJE £7.95. 978 1 85224 828 4. 64pp. 2009. Poems 1990-1995 NAOMI SHIHAB NYE £8.95. 978 1 85224 432 3. 160pp. 2003. Greetings from Grandpa ESTHER MORGAN Spanish-English dual language edition. RODDY LUMSDEN £9.95. 978 1 78037 311 9. 96pp. 2016. £8.95. 978 1 85224 512 2. 160pp. 2000. (ed.) NIKOLA MADZIROV North America: Houghton Mifflin. Beyond Calling Distance £12. 978 1 85224 862 8. 224pp. 2010. Identity Parade The Last of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize North America: City Lights Books. Remnants of Another Age SAMUEL MENASHE New British & Irish Poets Sweet Bananas £7.95. 978 1 85224 570 2. 80pp. 2001. Then Come Back translated by Peggy Reid, Graham Reid, New & Selected Poems (1925-2011) £12. 978 1 85224 839 0. 384pp. 2010. Magdalena Horvat & Adam Reed Grace The Lost Neruda Poems £9.95. 978 1 85224 665 5. 240pp. 2004. translated by Forrest Gander Macedonian-English dual language New & Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Recommendation THOMAS LUX edited by Christopher Ricks, with a film Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Spanish-English dual language edition. edition. by Pamela Robertson-Pearce WITH DVD Selected Poems £9.95. 978 1 85224 989 2. 104pp. 2013. £8.95. 978 1 85224 918 2. 64pp. 2011. £12. 978 1 78037 360 7. 192pp. 2017. £12. 978 1 85224 840 6. 240pp. 2009. North America: Copper Canyon Press. £12. 978 1 78037 115 3. 176pp. 2014. North America: BOA Editions. JOAN MARGARIT North America: Library of America. JULIE O’CALLAGHAN North America: Houghton Mifflin

BLOODAXE BOOKS COMPLETE LIST 30 31 Nezval – Pollard COMPLETE LIST COMPLETE LIST Pollard – Salzman ˇ VÍTESZLAV NEZVAL (1900-58) DENNIS O’DRISCOLL RUTH PADEL Ovid’s Heroines (tr.) SALLY READ ADRIENNE RICH: See Muriel Rukeyser. Prague with Fingers of Rain The Bloodaxe Book of Silent Letters of the Alphabet Modern versions of Ovid’s Heroides. Broken Sleep PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE: translated by Ewald Osers Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures £9.95. 978 1 85224 976 2. 112pp. 2013. £7.95. 978 1 85224 845 1. 64pp. 2009. See Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce Poetry Quotations and Benjamin Zephaniah foreword by Ivan Klíma Literary criticism. £9.95. 978 1 85224 744 7. 256pp. 2006. CLARE POLLARD: See also Caasha Lul The Day Hospital £8.95. 978 1 85224 816 1. 64pp. 2009. North America: Copper Canyon Press. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 8 Mohamud Yusuf and James Byrne. £8.95. 978 1 85224 948 9. 64pp. 2012. AMALI RODRIGO £8.95. 978 1 85224 827 7. 96pp. 2010. GRACE NICHOLS CAITRÍONA O’REILLY KATRINA PORTEOUS The Point of Splitting Lotus Gatherers See Bryony Doran. CAITRÍONA O’REILLY ISABEL PALMER: £7.95. 978 1 85224 685 3. 56pp. 2005. £9.95. 978 1 78037 287 7. 80pp. 2016. CLARE POLLARD I Have Crossed an Ocean Geis The Lost Music Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Recommendation REBECCA PERRY £9.95. 978 1 85224 380 7. 64pp. 1996. PETER READING (1946-2011) ANNE ROUSE £12. 978 1 85224 858 1. 192pp. 2010. Irish Times / Poetry Now Award Beauty/Beauty £9.95. 978 1 78037 146 7. 64pp. 2015. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Two Countries Collected Poems The Upshot The Insomnia Poems North America: Wake Forest U.P. £9.95. 978 1 78037 145 0. 88pp. 2015. £12. 978 1 85224 830 7. 192pp. 2014. 1: Poems 1970-1984 New & Selected Poems £9.95. 978 1 78037 339 3. 64pp. 2017. The Nowhere Birds £9.95. 978 1 85224 321 0. 320pp. 1995. £8.95. 978 1 85224 808 6. 128pp. 2008. Rooney Prize for Irish Literature ANDREW FUSEK PETERS KATE POTTS Picasso, I Want My Face Back Collected Poems CAROL RUMENS £8.95. 978 1 85224 850 5. 64pp. 2009. £9.95. 978 1 85224 560 3. 72pp. 2001. Sheep Don’t Go to School Pure Hustle 2: Poems 1985-1996 The Sea Cabinet Mad & Magical Children’s Poetry £8.95. 978 1 85224 903 8. 64pp. 2011. £9.95. 978 1 85224 357 9. 320pp. 1996. Self into Song STEPHANIE NORGATE Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL Poetry Book Society Recommendation from Eastern Europe Collected Poems ADÉLIA PRADO £7.95. 978 1 85224 408 8. 96pp. 1999. The Blue Den £7.95. 978 1 85224 705 8. 64pp. 2006. ADÉLIA PRADO 3: Poems 1997-2003 Literary criticism. £8.95. 978 1 85224 937 3. 80pp. 2012. £9.95. 978 1 85224 625 9. 320pp. 2003. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 5 FRANK ORMSBY PASCALE PETIT The Mystical Rose £7.95. 978 1 85224 760 7. 72pp. 2007. Hidden River Selected Poems -273.15 Mama Amazonica translated by Ellen Doré Watson £8.95. 978 1 85224 796 6. 80pp. 2008. The Darkness of Snow £7.95. 978 1 85224 679 2. 56pp. 2005. MURIEL RUKEYSER £9.95. 978 1 78037 366 9. 128pp. 2017. Poetry Book Society Choice £12. 978 1 78037 240 2. 192pp. 2014. (1913-80) NAOMI SHIHAB NYE North America: Wake Forest U.P. £9.95. 978 1 78037 294 5. 112pp. 2017. Vendange Tardive J.H. PRYNNE £7.95. 978 1 85224 884 0. 56pp. 2010. Selected Poems Tender Spot Goat’s Milk HEATHER PHILLIPSON edited by Adrienne Rich New & Selected Poems Selected Poems Poems Reading Peter Reading £12. 978 1 85224 990 8. 240pp. 2013. introduced by Michael Longley Instant-flex 718 THIRD EDITION LEANNE O’SULLIVAN SECOND EDITION ISABEL MARTIN North America: Library of America. PETER READING £9.95. 978 1 85224 970 0. 64pp. 2013. £12. 978 1 78037 280 8. 192pp. 2015. £12. 978 1 78037 125 2. 192pp. 2015. £25pb 978 1 78037 154 2. 688pp. 2015. Literary criticism. (1946-2011) North America: Wake Forest U.P. North America: BOA Editions. £35hb 978 1 78037 153 5. £10.95. 978 1 85224 467 5. 320pp. 2000. GIG RYAN ALAN PLATER (1935-2010) MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL SHAZEA QURAISHI Selected Poems SEAN O’BRIEN Close the Coalhouse Door DERYN REES-JONES Collected Poems Play based on Sid Chaplin stories. £9.95. 978 1 85224 921 2. 176pp. 2012. Journeys to the Interior The Art of Scratching Consorting with Angels Australia: Giramondo WITH AUDIO CD £9.95. 978 1 85224 489 7. 104pp. 2000. Ideas of England in £9.95. 978 1 78037 248 8. 72pp. 2015. Essays on Modern Women Poets £20pb. 978 1 85224 982 3. 832pp. 2013. LAWRENCE SAIL Contemporary Poetry CLARE POLLARD £10.95. 978 1 85224 392 0. 304pp. 2005. One Crimson Thread RAVING BEAUTIES (eds.) Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures The Quick Literary criticism. £12. 978 1 78037 127 6. 160pp. 2015. Bedtime Hallelujah for 50ft Women Modern Women Poets REBECCA PERRY £6.95. 978 1 85224 593 1. 64pp. 2002. £9.95. 978 1 78037 255 6. 72pp. 2015. LAWRENCE SAIL Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 12 LEANNE O’SULLIVAN poems about women’s Companion anthology to her criti- £8.95. 978 1 85224 932 8. 64pp. 2012. Changeling relationship to their bodies cal study Consorting with Angels. Waking Dreams Poetry Book Society Recommendation Cailleach £9.95. 978 1 78037 155 9. 176pp. 2015. £9.95. 978 1 85224 678 5. 416pp. 2005. New & Selected Poems JULIE O’CALLAGHAN The Hag of Beara £9.95. 978 1 85224 911 3. 64pp. 2011. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Rooney Prize for Irish Literature VIDYAN RAVINTHIRAN EVGENY REIN £9.95. 978 1 85224 883 3. 240pp. 2010. Tell Me This Is Normal £8.95. 978 1 85224 818 5. 64pp. 2009. The Heavy-Petting Zoo New & Selected Poems £6.95. 978 1 85224 481 1. 64pp. 1998. Grun-tu-molani Selected Poems EVA SALZMAN The Mining Road Poetry Book Society Recommendation £9.95. 978 1 78037 099 6. 96pp. 2014. ed. Valentina Polukhina £8.95. 978 1 85224 968 7. 64pp. 2013. Incarnation £8.95. 978 1 85224 790 4. 168pp. 2008. foreword by Joseph Brodsky Double Crossing £9.95. 978 1 78037 337 9. 72pp. 2017. Waiting for My Clothes Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation New & Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Recommendation PASCALE PETIT £9.95. 978 1 85224 674 7. 64pp. 2004. Look, Clare! Look! Russian-English dual language edition. CAROLE £7.95. 978 1 85224 709 6. 64pp. 2005. £9.95. 978 1 85224 523 8. 176pp. 2001. £8.95. 978 1 85224 661 7. 160pp. 2004. SATYAMURTI

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JACOB SAM - LA ROSE DAVID SCOTT KEN SMITH (1938-2003) ARUNDHATHI GEORGE SZIRTES: See also Freda Downie Sleeping under the SUBRAMANIAM and Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Breaking Silence Beyond the Drift The Poet Reclining Juniper Tree £9.95. 978 1 85224 915 1. 64pp. 2011. New & Selected Poems Selected Poems 1962-1980 £9.95. 978 1 78037 341 6. 64pp. 2017. When God Is a Traveller Reading George Szirtes Poetry Book Society Choice JOHN SEARS FIONA SAMPSON £12. 978 1 78037 104 7. 256pp. 2014. £7.95. 978 0 906427 51 4. 208pp. 1982. Tiger Facing the Mist Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Literary criticism. JOHN SEARS: See George Szirtes. Shed: Poems 1980-2001 £8.95. 978 1 85224 954 0. 64pp. 2013. £9.95. 978 1 78037 116 0. 72pp. 2014. £12. 978 1 85224 814 7. 248pp. 2008. Music Lessons £10.95. 978 1 85224 571 9. 336pp. 2002. Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures YI SHA: See YI. GJERTRUD You Again SALAH STÉTIÉ Where I Live PIA TAFDRUP ANNE STEVENSON Literary criticism. CLARE SHAW SCHNACKENBERG Last Poems & Other Words Selected Poems Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 10 Cold Water Shielded £8.95. 978 1 85224 824 6. 128pp. 2009. Queen’s Gate £8.95. 978 1 85224 909 0. 64pp. 2011. Head On £8.95. 978 1 85224 670 9. 168pp. 2004. Selected Poems Nordic Council Literature Prize £8.95. 978 1 85224 951 9. 72pp. 2012. translated by Michael Bishop translated by David McDuff ANN SANSOM KAREN SOLIE JULES SUPERVIELLE / French-English dual language edition. £8.95. 978 1 85224 567 2. 160pp. 2001. TATIANA SHCHERBINA MONIZA ALVI In Praise of Men The Living Option Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 10. £9.95. 978 1 85224 487 3. 224pp. 2000. Homesick for the Earth Salamander Sun and other people Life Without Selected Poems and other poems £9.95. 978 1 85224 633 4. 80pp. 2003. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Selected Poems Selected Poetry & Prose 1992-2003 translated by David McDuff translated by Sasha Dugdale £9.95. 978 1 85224 994 6. 160pp. 2013. ANNE STEVENSON Bilingual edition of Alvi’s versions of Romance £12. 978 1 78037 150 4. 160pp. 2015. Canada: House of Anansi / Brick Books Basque French poet from Uruguay. DAVID SCOTT £6.95. 978 1 85224 285 5. 80pp. 1994. Russian-English dual language edition. About Poems RUTH STONE £9.95. 978 1 85224 920 5. 112pp. 2011. Tarkovsky’s Horses (1915-2011) PETER SANSOM £8.95. 978 1 85224 642 6. 144pp. 2004. PIOTR SOMMER and how poems are not about Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures MATTHEW SWEENEY and other poems Writing Poems PENELOPE SHUTTLE Literary criticism. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Continued translated by David McDuff Practical guide with examples. £8.95. 978 1 85224 702 7. 144pp. 2005. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 16 Horse Music Unsent Pigott Poetry Prize (Listowel Writers’ Week) £9.95. 978 1 85224 837 6. 176pp. 2010. £9.95. 978 1 85224 204 6. 128pp. 1994. New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 North America: Wesleyan University Press £9.95. 978 1 78037 345 4. 144pp. 2017. Reprinted with updated appendices 2007. Poetry Book Society Recommendation £12. 978 1 85224 950 2. 272pp. 2012. RABINDRANATH TAGORE MARIN SORESCU (1936-96) Astonishment £9.95. 978 1 85224 967 0. 96pp. 2013. SAPPHO Poetry Book Society Recommendation (c. 630 – c. 570 BC) Will you walk a little faster? NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 1913 The Bridge £8.95. 978 1 85224 947 2. 80pp. 2012. Inquisition Lane Poems & Fragments £9.95. 978 1 78037 353 9. 112pp. 2017. translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Lidia Vianu £9.95. 978 1 78037 148 1. 96pp. 2015. I Won’t Let You Go translated by Josephine Balmer PENELOPE SHUTTLE Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Translation Poems 1955-2005 Selected Poems ARUNDHATHI £9.95. 978 1 85224 201 5. 96pp. 1992. ELENA SHVARTS (1948-2010) £15. 978 1 85224 699 0. 448pp. 2005. GEORGE SZIRTES NEW EXPANDED EDITION SUBRAMANIAM £8.95. 978 1 85224 577 1. 96pp. 2004. Birdsong on the Seabed Bad Machine Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation CAROLE SATYAMURTI Stone Milk translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Censored Poems £8.95. 978 1 85224 775 1. 72pp. 2007. Poetry Book Society Choice tr. John Hartley Williams & Hilde Ottschofski Countdown trs. Sasha Dugdale £9.95. 978 1 85224 957 1. 112pp. 2013. £12. 978 1 85224 898 7. 320pp. 2010. £8.95. 978 1 85224 912 0. 72pp. 2011. Russian-English dual language edition. £8.95. 978 1 85224 195 7. 128pp. 2001. Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop North America: Sheep Meadow Press. £9.95. 978 1 85224 783 6. 160pp. 2008. Literary criticism. A.S.J. TESSIMOND (1902-62) BERNARD SPENCER The Burning of the Books Stitching the Dark (1909-63) £12. 978 1 85224 725 6. 176pp. 2006. Collected Poems New & Selected Poems ‘Paradise’: Selected Poems and other poems Complete Poetry, with translations from £10.95. 978 1 85224 692 1. 224pp. 2005. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation GRETA STODDART £9.95. 978 1 85224 842 0. 104pp. 2009. trs. Michael Molnar & Catriona Kelly Translations & Selected Prose Jacques Prévert KEN SMITH ed. Peter Robinson Fortinbras at the Fishhouses edited by Hubert Nicholson MATTHEW (1938-2003) GJERTRUD Russian-English dual language edition. Alive Alive O Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures SWEENEY SCHNACKENBERG £8.95. 978 1 85224 249 7. 144pp. 1993. £15. 978 1 85224 891 8. 384pp. 2011. £9.95. 978 1 78037 151 1. 64pp. 2015. £12. 978 1 85224 857 4. 208pp. 2010. Literary criticism. Co-published with the Whiteknights Press Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 9 PAULINE STAINER RUTH STONE (1915-2011) Heavenly Questions LOUIS SIMPSON (1923-2012) £7.95. 978 1 85224 880 2. 64pp. 2010. Griffin International Poetry Prize JEET THAYIL (ed.) Crossing the Snowline What Love Comes To £8.95. 978 1 85224 922 9. 80pp. 2011. Voices in the Distance Mapping the Delta £8.95. 978 1 85224 812 3. 96pp. 2008. New & Selected Poems The Bloodaxe Book of North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Selected Poems Poetry Book Society Choice Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Poetry Book Society Recommendation Contemporary Indian Poets The Lady & the Hare £12. 978 1 78037 320 1. 176pp. 2016. £15. 978 1 85224 841 3. 384pp. 2009. Anthology covering 55 years of Supernatural Love £9.95. 978 1 85224 861 1. 176pp. 2010. New & Selected Poems Poems 1976-2000 North America: BOA Editions North America: Copper Canyon Press New & Collected Poems Indian poetry in English. Poetry Book Society Recommendation Includes T.S. Eliot Prize winner Reel. KAREN SOLIE £10.95. 978 1 85224 561 0. 288pp. 2001. £9.95. 978 1 85224 632 7. 192pp. 2003. £12. 978 1 85224 801 7. 424pp. 2008. GEORGE SZIRTES North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux £15. 978 1 85224 813 0. 520pp. 2008. Co-publisher: Fulcrum (USA)

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EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917) MARINA TSVETAEVA TATIANA VOLTSKAIA ANTHONY WILSON Night Toad (ed.) Lee Valley Poems (1892-1941) The Annotated Cicada New & Selected Poems Lifesaving Poems translated by Brian Holton, Agnes Hung- Collected Poems Art in the Light of Conscience Selected Poetry & Prose Poetry Book Society Recommendation £12. 978 1 78037 157 3. 256pp. 2015. Chong Chan and seven poets edited by Edna Longley Eight Essays on Poetry translated by Emily Lygo £8.95. 978 1 85224 636 5. 176pp. 2003. Chinese-English dual language edition. £12. 978 1 85224 746 1. 336pp. 2008. translated by Angela Livingstone Russian-English dual language edition. KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF £9.95. 978 1 85224 834 5. 112pp. 2009. £12. 978 1 85224 864 2. 224pp. 2010. £8.95. 978 1 85224 704 1. 144pp. 2006. The Months Poetry Book Society Recommendation (ed.) R.S. THOMAS (1913-2000) Ten: the new wave Narrative Poem translated by Brian Holton PIA TAFDRUP Selected Poems FRED VOSS £9.95. 978 1 78037 290 7. 80pp. 2016. Second Ten anthology of multicul- C.K. WILLIAMS Collected Later Poems translated by David McDuff tural poets. Chinese-English dual language edition. (1936-2015) 1988-2000 Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls £9.95. 978 1 85224 025 7. 160pp. 1987. C.K. WILLIAMS (1936-2015) £9.95. 978 1 78037 110 8. 160pp. 2014. £15. 978 1 78037 351 5. 272pp. 2017. Sequel volume to Collected Poems £8.95. 978 1 85224 473 6. 192pp. 1998. BRIAN TURNER Collected Poems Copublisher: The Complete Works 1945-1990 (Phoenix House). YANG LIAN: See also W.N. HERBERT MARK WALDRON WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE (ed.) Ten: poets of the new £12. 978 1 85224 648 8. 368pp. 2004. Here, Bullet YI SHA £8.95. 978 1 85224 799 7. 80pp. 2007. Meanwhile, Trees £20. 978 1 85224 753 9. 704pp. 2006. generation North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Too Brave to Dream North America: Alice James Books £9.95. 978 1 78037 296 9. 96pp. 2016. Third Ten anthology of multicul- Starve the Poets! Encounters with Modern Art SARAH WARDLE Falling Ill tural poets. Selected Poems ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies Phantom Noise translated by Simon Patton & Tao Naikan £9.95. 978 1 85224 876 5. 80pp. 2010. £9.95. 978 1 78037 355 3. 64pp. 2017. £9.95. 978 1 78037 382 9. 160pp. 2017. Newly discovered poems. Illustrated. Beyond North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux R.S. THOMAS North America: Alice James Books Copublisher: The Complete Works £9.95. 978 1 85224 815 4. 144pp. 2008. C.D. WRIGHT (1913-2000) £12. 978 1 78037 307 2. 112pp. 2016. £9.95. 978 1 78037 097 2. 64pp. 2014. (1949-2016) CHASE TWICHELL Wait C.D. WRIGHT (1949-2016) ASHA LUL Uncollected Poems Fields Away £9.95. 978 1 85224 875 8. 128pp. 2010. ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies Horses Where the £7.95. 978 1 85224 620 4. 80pp. 2003. North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Like Something Flying Backwards MOHAMUD YUSUF £9.95. 978 1 85224 896 3. 192pp. 2013. Answers Should Have Been A Knowable World New & Selected Poems The Sea Migrations New & Selected Poems Writers Writing Dying £12. 978 1 85224 762 1. 320pp. 2007. translated by Clare Pollard with Mohamed £7.95. 978 1 85224 819 2. 64pp. 2009. Poetry Book Society Recommendation ROSEMARY TONKS (1928-2014) £9.95. 978 1 85224 867 3. 272pp. 2010. North America: Copper Canyon Press Xasan ‘Alto’ & Said Jama Hussein £9.95. 978 1 85224 963 2. 64pp. 2013. North America: Copper Canyon Press Score! Bedouin of the London Evening North America: Farrar, Straus & Giroux One with Others Somali-English dual language edition. Collected Poems £7.95. 978 1 85224 706 5. 80pp. 2005. £12. 978 1 78037 398 0. 160pp. 2017. KO UN: See KO. [a little book of her days] Second expanded edition. CHRISSY WILLIAMS Copublisher: The Poetry Translation Centre. ROSEMARY TONKS AHREN WARNER £12. 978 1 85224 955 7. 176pp. 2013. KIT WRIGHT £12. 978 1 78037 361 4. 160pp. 2014. PRISCILA UPPAL (1928-2014) Bear North America: Copper Canyon Press BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH Sabotage Confer £9.95. 978 1 78037 332 4. 64pp. 2017. TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER Poetry Book Society Recommendation KIT WRIGHT £9.95. 978 1 78037 117 7. 96pp. 2015. City Psalms (1931-2015) Canada: Mansfield Press. £8.95. 978 1 85224 914 4. 72pp. 2011. HEIDI WILLIAMSON £7.95. 978 1 85224 230 5. 64pp. 1992. NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2011 Ode to Didcot Power Station Successful Tragedies Hello. Your promise has Electric Shadow £9.95. 978 1 78037 106 1. 96pp. 2014. Propa Propaganda New Collected Poems Poems 1998-2010 Poetry Book Society Recommendation £7.95. 978 1 85224 372 2. 80pp. 1996. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation been extracted Poetry Book Society Recommendation ROBERT WRIGLEY translated by Robin Fulton £9.95. 978 1 85224 860 4. 192pp. 2010. £8.95. 978 1 85224 902 1. 64pp. 2011. Canada: Exile Editions. 52 colour illustrations. Benjamin Zephaniah: Third expanded edition. 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