Poetry

Poetry runs through the generations of the ancient Douglas line. There was Gavin Douglas, a sixteenth-century bishop and one of Scotland’s most famous Renaissance characters and poets, and William Douglas, who wrote the words for the song ‘Annie...
By: Lord Gawain Douglas

From sensuous, stream-of-consciousness declarations of love to a brooding meditation on the wreckage of a relationship, this collection of Steven Berkoff’s verse gives us an intimate glimpse of the acclaimed playwright and actor’s thoughts, pains...
By: Steven Berkoff

Because of its immediacy and spontaneity, poetry inevitably reflects the author more than any autobiography can do. John Calder's new poetry collection, Solo , avoids strict poetic forms in favour of a casual and natural expression of thought....
By: John Calder

A collection of sixteen sonnets about humans who are transformed into beasts (both real and imaginary), and vice versa, A Modern Bestiary is a new interpretation of the old bestiary tradition, which has fascinated generations of readers and writers...
By: Alessandro Gallenzi

Mike Stocks's sonnets range across the messy landscape of human behaviour, pinpointing the fault lines in a direct and striking language. Whether dealing in sly humour, savage loss, or all the tragi-comic states in-between, he invariably finds a...
By: Mike Stocks

The Paradise Construction Company is a new collection of poetry by poet and translation-prize winner J.G. Nichols. A selection of his finest poems, it follows on from his previous collection The Flighty Horse (Liverpool University Press), and will...
By: J.G. Nichols