Huchel surprises us as a fresh and startling voice for our own numbered days
Carol Ann Duffy’s much-celebrated festive poems
they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world
Di Giorgio’s obsessive
this is the first bilingual Spanish/English volume devoted to Pasos to be published
The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Paul Sutherland Huchel surprises us as aIn her debut collection, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine, plague, war and spiritual upheaval, these poems explore the strange, uncertain days of the early abbey: mysterious visions, politics, violence and sisterhood, and end with the final abbess mourning the eradication of her home as the Dissolution unhouses her, her sisters, and countless