Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published ...

The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary....

U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey write: 'Wordsworth speaks of the spontaneous overflow of powerfu...

Centred on environments - human, insect and animal - some experienced personally, some observed, ...

The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.Yannis Ritsos (1909-...

U.A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general...

Jane Duran's father fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republican army and went into exile ...

In Zeal Andrew Bailey honours the moments in which the everyday face of the world slips for a sec...

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon, librettist, reteller of traditiona...

In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on ...

A legendary figure among the 'Auden generation' of young writers in the 1930s, Edward Upward cont...

Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on ...