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![Front cover of Seven Songs of Decline and other poems by Mário de Sá-Carneiro]()
Written at the crossroads of late Symbolism and the avant-garde movements of Futurism and Cubism, Sá-Carneiro’s literature is breath-taking in its originality.
![Front cover of The Name Of Things and other poems by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen]()
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s poems have all the intensity of childhood memories, but are imbued with an adult awareness of mortality.
![Front cover of The Last Model Pādejais Modeļs Poems in Latgalian]()
The legacy of post-Soviet societies, the historical and contemporary status of women in the region, and visible influences from other literatures and cultures make Latgalian poetry a must-read for all interested in the art of poetry.
![Front cover of Southern Songster English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts]()
FeaturedSelected by Nick Dow
Musical notation by Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
With notes by Steve Gardham
The Hammond and Gardiner manuscripts are amongst the most important nineteenth-century collections of English folk song.
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![Front cover of A Speech of Birds Poems by Victoria Field]()
FeaturedAvailable now.
A Speech of Birds brings together poems of place and time, tracing the course of a calendar year with its epiphanies and losses.
![Cover of Parallel Rivers Selected Poems by Màrius Torres]()
This is joy – to be a bird, passing through the sky where a storm left forceful peace.
This is death – to close your eyes, to hear the silence as when the music begins.
![Front cover of The Compound Heart by Clementina Arderiu]()
FeaturedIn this first Selection of Clementina Arderiu’s work to be published in English, we encounter a Catalan poet who is both classic and startlingly modern.
![Front cover of Truck Driver Haikus by Dolors Miquel]()
Featured“A haiku is so short that it gives you no time to reflect. It’s just an impression. I don’t want to talk about grand emotions in a world full of washing machines. No lyrical images. Only punches. ”
– Dolors Miquel
![Front cover of L’orella de l’eternitat / The Ear of Eternity by Xavier Panadès i Blas]()
L’orella de l’eternitat / The Ear of Eternity is a striking collection of poetry in Catalan with translations into English, that explores the world of the Catalan exile.
![Front cover image of Virgil’s Fountain A Seafarer’s Tale A poem in Cornish by Tim Saunders]()
A poem in Cornish
Available in April 2019
Tim Saunders has brought us a poem of love and loss in which myth strives to give shape to unbearable memory.
![Front cover image of People Like Us, Poems in Livonian by Valts Ernštreits]()
In People Like Us you will wander through Latvia meeting Livonian characters as they struggle with the burdens and responsibilities of their language and heritage. You will explore ancient lands and lands yet to be discovered.
![Front cover image of Words and Music in Irish Literature edited by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos]()
Available 8 March 2019
Order now to avoid disappointment
Music and literature have always been closely connected in Ireland – to an extent perhaps unknown in other western European literatures.
![The Red Vial – Wilkie Collins]()
The first publication of Wilkie Collins’s script for the Olympic production of the thrilling three-act drama, The Red Vial. A complete, annotated transcript of the play, a scholarly introduction and contemporary illustrations and reviews.
![Unsleeping Sphere by Marius Sampere]()
A modern long poem in the tradition of A. R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg or John Ashbery published in the original Catalan together with English translation by D. Sam Abrams.
![Dictatorship of Poetry Book Cover]()
This is the first translation into English of a major collection of work by the celebrated Georgian poet, performer and human rights activitist, Zurab Rtveliashvili.
![The Southern Harvest Book Cover]()
Including the words and music for nearly 300 songs
An omnibus volume containing The Constant Lovers and The Foggy Dew, completing the series originally edited by Frank Purslow and published by the English Folk Dance and Song Society in the late 60s and early 70s. Foreword by Martin Carthy MBE.
