'I have the misfortune of having a date with you daily, Though you lessen your grip every now and then. I am still shackled to your chains. I am not the master of my own time. You dictate the pace of my day and how I spend my time.' (From the poem 'Shackles') Fresh, accessible and heartfelt, the poems in Renée Walter's collection Echoes from the Cellar Within deal with many different aspects of life, such as love, loss and joy.

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II — railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence"...

Great story, great characters.' Young Sam Taverner is desperate to fulfil the promise he made to his dying father to keep the family deckchair rental business going. Everyone told him he'd never make it, and he's beginning to think they were right. The beach is as empty as his cash box, and the future looks bleak. Then his sheltered life in Whistle Bay comes to a dramatic end when he meets Lindsay, a larger-than-life artist from London. When she...

Beguiling and lyrical, this first collection of poetry by writer Olivia McCannon measures out memories and builds memorials for the departed. Resonant with family history, these poems resurrect the past in tender portraits and remembrances while also conveying an awareness of borders and foreignness due to the poet's experiences in translation.

Designed as a sonnet story, a young American woman tells her story of falling in love, bereavement and the re-making of her life after the death of her husband in battle.

Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It is here that he would spend many a summer on family holidays, walking the hills and fishing the lochs. MacCaig's fresh eye saw remarkable newness even in the everyday and each poem is a tiny revelation,...

With 60 new poems spanning the world, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi, New York to Sydney, this collection explores the landscape and history of each destination with vivid expressions charged by memories both fond and once forgotten. From her insightful autobiography, the author encounters friends, colleagues, and strangers in each city who stir up details of a life lived completely. At turns poignant and amusing, this volume will delight...

The characters in Nick Holmes' lyrics have always just gone too far. They have found their connection to the normal world, and determined there was more. They are dark and comic personalities. The bridge sections of those songs, rather than leading us to a safer place, take us deeper into what it means to be free. It's a place where protagonists take full responsibility for everything, and call it a godlike freedom. The ballads have dimension. They...

A collection of modern English poetry from the celebrated author of Lady Chatterly's Lover. This definitive collection of D. H. Lawrence's poems, both previously published and some not, presents here with the poems in their intended forms, reversing censorship and correcting long-missed errors for the first time. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive study of the composition, publication and reception of Lawrence's most iconic poetry.

From a celebration of the harsh but beautiful Pennine landscape to soft, evocative memories of past times and a celebration of nature, this collection offers something for every taste. The poems cover a wide range of subjects from the heartbreak of lost love, to pen portraits of people and everyday occurrences as seen through the eyes of a child. All will provide lines that will stay in the mind long after they have been read. Some will be thought-provoking...