After breaking a thirty-five year writer's block with Blues in the Park, Jeremy Robson's new coll...

Over the past five years Karl Riordan and his Filipino wife, Jeni, have been forced to live thous...

Darkling

Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic - John Berger is one of the major European...

If the Symptoms Persist

The word romiosini (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) or ''Greekness'' derives from the Byzantine idea that the Greeks a...

Chips, Paracetamol and Wine

Song of Stars

Screaming Olives

The Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory. Between June 1941 and the libera...

Subsidence

A new collection of poems for grown-ups from the 2007-to-2009 Children's Laureate. The absurditie...

Published in 1969, Les Chambres was Louis Aragon's last collection. Subtitled poème du temps qui ...

In this new translation of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by th...

Pastrami Faced Racist

Nomad

'Poetry can stick up for the weak' according to Michael Rosen, or it can 'mock the mighty'; it ca...

On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman we...

Autumn Manuscripts was Tasos Leivaditis'' last book, comparable to Brecht's Buckow elegies, Arago...

Plague Songs

Roque Dalton (1935-1975) is one of the best-known and best-loved poets of twentieth-century Latin...

Eating Thistles

His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Victor Jara

Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Pu...

Michael Rosen is one of our best-loved and writers for children. He has written and edited over 1...

If You Want Thunder

Anxious Corporals

'Against barbarity,' wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008) 'poetry ca...

Nazi, neo-fascist and xenophobic parties are on the violent march again across Europe. Hiding beh...

Attempts on Death

Accursed Poets

Selina Rodrigues' much-anticipated first collection takes a long look at the invisible ecology of...

In her early sixties Fiona Sinclair decided to become a 'biker-chick'. Despite the disapproval of...

Stretch

Dummy!

Underneath

The Blockade Swallow

Tyorkin in the Other World

Mad Parade

Grace Note

A selection of poems by the Kurdish writer ¿lhan Sami Çomak, imprisoned in Turkey since 1994. He ...

Great Fugue

More Bloody Clerihews

The Love Songs of Late Capitalism

Combining traditional Arabic verse-forms and free-verse, We Are Here to Stay some of his best-kno...

Michael Rosen was dangerously ill from COVID at the beginning of 2020 and as doctors told him, if...

In 1973 Fred Voss abandoned a PhD in English literature at the University of California, Los Ange...

Montagu Slater (1902-1956) is best-known today as the librettist of Benjamin Britten's opera Pete...