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

Better than Paradise

Song of Stars

Subject Matters

Screaming Olives

Russia is Burning

Subsidence

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

Les Chambres

The Out-Islands

Pastrami Faced Racist

Nomad

The latest adult collection from Michael Rosen, following on from 'Don't Mention the Children'. A...

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

A debut full-length collection, from the well-known TV and radio poet, who has worked on Radio 4'...

Composition in White

Autumn Manuscripts

Plague Songs

Nothing Out of This World

Truth Street

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...

Sleeper

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...

The Battle of Heptonstall

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

Attempts on Death

Accursed Poets

Ferocious

Greedy Cow

Stretch

Smokestack Lightning

Dummy!

Underneath

The Blockade Swallow

Tyorkin in the Other World

Billy Casper's Tears

Mad Parade

The Knucklebone Floor is partly a verse biography of Susan Davidson (1796-1877), who spent thirty...

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