Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993

In her fourth collection, `Mean Time', Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. Th...

At the heart of many of these poems lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed, and with this a need for consolation. The question of how we look for, or create, such solace – whether in faith or the rain, by doing a puzzle or watching TV – is one that threads through the book.

This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy's impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skilful, passionate.

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; th...

Contemporary French poetry has long been tagged as being overly cerebral and hermetic. But there exists a very different, thriving tradition which is too often muffled by noisier movements like Surrealism or Minimalism. `Into the Deep Street’ gives voice to this tradition. What links the poets ...

"Stanley Moss is American poetry's best-kept secret, better known as the innovative publisher of other poets than for his own highly charged, stingingly beautiful lyrics. That should change with the publication of his long-awaited and gorgeous new poems. "—John Ashbery

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This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello’s poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello’s Time of a Flower (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems from his later books. Vianello’s exceptional lyric gift and his striking imagery shine t...