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Josephine Abbott
(The Infinite Knot)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jane Draycott (2018)
Peter Abbs
(Icons Of Time)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
Peter Abbs
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2003)
Peter Abbs
(Earth Songs: A Resurgence anthology of contemporary eco-poetry, edited by Peter Abbs)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Scupham (2004)
Dannie Abse
(Collected Poems 1948-1976)
reviewed by Neil Powell (1979)
Dannie Abse
(Way Out in the Centre)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1982)
Dannie Abse
(A Strong Dose of Myself)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
Shanta Acharya
(What Survives is the Singing)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2021)
Gerrit Achterberg
(selected poems, translated by Michael O'Loughlin)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Diane Ackerman
(Jaguar of Sweet Laughter)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
Peter Ackroyd
(Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Crozier (1979)
Peter Ackroyd
(T. S. Eliot)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1985)
Peter Ackroyd
(Chatterton)
Subscribers only reviewed by Eavan Boland (1988)
Virginia Hamilton Adair
(Ants on the Melon)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (1997)
Anna Adams
(A Reply to Intercepted Mail)
Subscribers only reviewed by Emma Fisher (1981)
Anna Adams
(Green Resistance: New Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kate Price (1997)
Sam Adams
(Prichard's Nose)
Subscribers only reviewed by Christopher Meredith (2010)
Sam Adams
(Letters from Wales: Memories and Encounters in Literature and Life)
Subscribers only reviewed by Gwyneth Lewis (2024)
Robert Adamson
(Reading the River: Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Riley (2005)
Fleur Adcock
(Below Loughrigg and The Inner Harbour)
Subscribers only reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1981)
Fleur Adcock
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian McMillan (1984)
Fleur Adcock
(The Virgin and the Nightingale, Medieval Latin Poems translated by Fleur Adcock)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1984)
Fleur Adcock
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Glover (1986)
Fleur Adcock
(The Incident Book)
Subscribers only reviewed by Angela Smith (1988)
Fleur Adcock
(Selected Poems and Time Zones)
Subscribers only reviewed by Tess Lewis (1992)
Fleur Adcock
(Looking Back)
Subscribers only reviewed by Vona Groarke (1998)
Fleur Adcock
(Poems 1960-2000)
Subscribers only reviewed by Julian Stannard (2000)
Fleur Adcock
(Dragon Talk)
Subscribers only reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2010)
Fleur Adcock
(The Land Ballot)
Subscribers only reviewed by Sue Leigh (2015)
Fleur Adcock
(Hoard)
Subscribers only reviewed by Sue Leigh (2018)
John Adlard
(One Evening of Light Mist in London)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Arkell (1981)
John Adlard
(the Lichfield Elegies)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
John Adlard
(Songs for Dobra)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
John Adlard
(The Inextinguishable)
Subscribers only reviewed by Anne Stevenson (1996)
Lucile Adler
(The Society of Anna)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1978)
John Agard
(From the Devil's Pulpit)
Subscribers only reviewed by Conor O'Callaghan (1999)
Sister Mary Agnes
(Harvest)
Subscribers only reviewed by Toby Martinez de las Rivas (2017)
Gösta Ågren
(A Valley in the Midst of Violence translated by David McDuff)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
AI
(Vice: New and Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Tromp (2000)
AI
(Dread)
Subscribers only reviewed by Helena Nelson (2006)
Conrad Aiken
(Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, ed. Joseph Killorin )
Subscribers only reviewed by D.G. Bridson (1979)
Kaveh Akbar
(The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rachel Mann (2023)
Anna Akhmotova
(Requiem and Poem without a Hero, translated by D. M. Thomas)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jeffrey Wainwright (1978)
Anna Akhmotova
(Poems selected and translated by Lyn Coffin with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky)
reviewed by John Pilling (1984)
Anna Akhmotova
(Selected Poems, translated by Richard McKane)
reviewed by John Pilling (1990)
Anna Akhmotova
(The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Herschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Anna Akhmotova
(My Half Century: selected prose edited by Ronald Meyer)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1995)
Maram al-Massri
(A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems. Translated by Khaled Mattawa. Bilingual Arabic-English edition)
Subscribers only reviewed by Eric Ormsby (2005)
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
(A Monkey at the Window: Selected Poems translated by Sarah Maguire and Mark Ford)
Subscribers only reviewed by N.J. Stallard (2018)
Adnan Al-Sayegh
(Ten Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
Alain-Fournier
(Poems, translated by Anthony Costello, Anthony Howell & Anita Marsh)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Brinton (2017)
Laureano Albán
(The Endless Voyage, translated by Frederick Fornoff )
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1986)
Pierre Albert-Birot
(The First Book of Grabinoulor, translated by Barbara Wright)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kevin Taylor (1987)
Anne-Marie Albiach
("Vocative Figure', revised second edition, translations by Anthony Barnett and Joesph Simas)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Richard Aldington
(Exile and Other Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Greening (2024)
Keith Aldritt
(The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (1999)
Yuz Aleshkovsky
(Kangaroo, translated from the Russian by Tamara Glenny)
Subscribers only reviewed by Raymond Cooke (1987)
Yuz Aleshkovsky
(Kangaroo, translated from the Russian by Tamara Glenny)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)
Meena Alexander
(Raw Silk)
Subscribers only reviewed by Moniza Alvi (2005)
Michael Alexander
(The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound )
Subscribers only reviewed by William Cookson (1980)
Michael Alexander
(Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book )
Subscribers only reviewed by John Clarke (1981)
Michael Alexander
(Twelve Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
Michael Alexander
(Old English Literature)
Subscribers only reviewed by Brian Morton (1985)
Michael Alexander
(Beowulf: A Verse Translation)
Subscribers only reviewed by Matt Bryden (2002)
Michael Alexander
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2008)
Michael Alexander
(Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England)
Subscribers only reviewed by Judith Willson (2008)
Pierre Alferi
(Personal Pong)
Subscribers only reviewed by James Keery (1999)
Lucy Alford
(Forms of Poetic Attention)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris Miller (2021)
Ghazi Algosaibi
(Arabian Essays)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1983)
Kazim Ali
( Inquisition)
Subscribers only reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2018)
Dante Alighieri
(The Divine Comedy: Inferno, trans. J.G. Nichols)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2011)
A.M. Allchin
(The Joy of All Creation: An Anglican Meditation on the Place of Mary)
Subscribers only reviewed by Brian Morton (1985)
Fergus Allen
(Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay)
Subscribers only reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2000)
Racheal Allen
(Faber New Poets 9)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)
Racheal Allen
(Kingdomland)
Subscribers only reviewed by Aoife Lyall (2021)
Drummond Allison
(Collected Poems, edited by Stephen Benson)
Subscribers only reviewed by Charlie Louth (1995)
Drummond Allison
(Collected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Bernard Bergonzi (1995)
Gillian Allnutt
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1989)
Gillian Allnutt
(Blackthorn)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rennie Parker (1995)
Gillian Allnutt
(Nantucket and the Angel)
Subscribers only reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (1998)
Gillian Allnutt
(Nantucket and the Angel)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Tolkien (1998)
Gillian Allnutt
(Lintel)
Subscribers only reviewed by Sophie Hannah (2001)
Gillian Allnutt
(Sojourner)
Subscribers only reviewed by Oliver Dennis (2005)
Antony Alper
(The Life of Katherine Mansfield)
Subscribers only reviewed by Claire Harman (1981)
Nuar Alsadir
(Fourth Person Singular)
Subscribers only reviewed by Sasha Dugdale (2018)
Charles Altieri
(The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After)
Subscribers only reviewed by Edward Ragg (2006)
A. Alverez
(New and Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2003)
Susan Amert
(In A Shattered Mirror: the later poetry of Anna Akhmatova)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Yehuda Amichai
(Amen)
Subscribers only reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1980)
Yehuda Amichai
(Love Poems: a bilingual selection)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1983)
Yehuda Amichai
(The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1997)
Kingsley Amis
(Collected Poems 1944-1979)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1980)
Martin Amis
(Einstein's Monsters)
Subscribers only reviewed by Mark Thompson (1988)
Martin Amis
(Experience)
Subscribers only reviewed by Frederic Raphael (2000)
A.R. Ammons
(The Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1979)
A.R. Ammons
(The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
A.R. Ammons
(Collected Poems, 1951-1971; Garbage. A Poem; and Worldly Hopes)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2002)
Michael Anania
(Riversongs)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1981)
Michael Anania
(Continuous Showings and Nightsongs & Clamors)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2020)
Anthony Anaxagorou
(After the Formalities)
Subscribers only reviewed by Evan Jones (2020)
Linda Anderson
(The Station Before)
Subscribers only reviewed by Genevieve Stevens (2020)
Perry Anderson
(A Zone of Engagement and English Questions)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1992)
Perry Anderson
(The Origins of Postmodernity)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1999)
Carlos Drummond De Andrade
(The Minus Sign, translated from the Portuguese by Virginia de Araujo)
Subscribers only reviewed by Donald Davie (1982)
Eugénio de Andrade
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1986)
Chris Andrews
(Lime Green Chair)
Subscribers only reviewed by Aime Williams (2013)
Elmer Andrews
(The Poetry of Seamus Heaney)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)
Nin Andrews
(The Book of Orgasms)
Subscribers only reviewed by Robert P. Jones (2003)
Ivo Andric
(Conversation with Goya translated by Celia Hawkesworth and Andrew Harvey)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Maya Angelou
(On the Pulse of the Morning)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
(The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems )
Subscribers only reviewed by Evan Jones (2009)
Diana Anphimiadi
(Beginning to Speak)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rory Waterman (2019)
Romalyn Ante
(Antiemetic for Homesickness)
Subscribers only reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2021)
Guillaume Apollinaire
(The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Donald Revell)
Subscribers only reviewed by Robert Archambeau (2005)
Aharon Appelfeld
(To the Land of the Reeds)
Subscribers only reviewed by Bernard Harrison (1988)
Aharon Appelfeld
(The Immortal Bartfuss, translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)
Louis Aragon
(Treatise on Style translated and with an introduction by Alyson Waters)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1992)
Louis Aragon
(Les Chambres, tr. John Manson)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jamie Osborn (2019)
Jean Arasanayagam
(Reddened Water Flows Clear)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
Robert Archambeau
(Home and Variations)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2005)
Robert Archambeau
(Laureates and Heretics)
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2010)
Emma-Jane Arkady
(Lithium)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2003)
David Arkell
(Looking for Laforgue, an informal biography)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1981)
Rae Armatrout
(Next Life)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)
Rae Armatrout
(Versed)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Muckle (2009)
Rae Armatrout
(Versed)
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2010)
Rae Armatrout
(Money Shot)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2011)
Rae Armatrout
(Party: New and Selected Poems 2001–2015)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)
Simon Armitage
(Zoom!)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1990)
Simon Armitage
(Kid)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
Simon Armitage
(Xanadu)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
Simon Armitage
(Book of Matches)
Subscribers only reviewed by Keith Silver (1994)
Simon Armitage
(Killing Time)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jem Poster (2000)
Simon Armitage
(The Universal Home Doctor)
Subscribers only reviewed by Sarah Wardle (2005)
Simon Armitage
(Homer's Odyssey and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid)
Subscribers only reviewed by Stephen Procter (2007)
Simon Armitage
(Homer's Odyssey)
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2008)
Simon Armitage
(Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rachel Mann (2015)
Simon Armitage
(Pearl)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jane Draycott (2016)
Karen Armstrong
(A Short History of Myth)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2006)
Paul B. Armstrong
(Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
Craig Arnold
(Shells)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Tromp (1999)
Les Arnold
(Shaker City)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (2000)
Nicky Arscott
(Soft Mutation)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
Mona Arshi
(Dear Big Gods)
Subscribers only reviewed by Hal Coase (2020)
Kevyn Alan Arthur
(England and Nowhere)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)
Manuel Asensi
(J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading, trans. Mabel Richart)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2000)
John Ash
(The Bed & other poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Harry Guest (1983)
John Ash
(The Goodbyes)
Subscribers only reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1984)
John Ash
(Disbelief )
Subscribers only reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1988)
John Ash
(Two Books: The Anatolikon / To the City)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (2003)
John Ashbery
(As We Know)
Subscribers only reviewed by Simon Howard (1982)
John Ashbery
(Flow Chart)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
John Ashbery
(Hotel Lautreamont)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)
John Ashbery
(And the Stars Were Shining)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1994)
John Ashbery
(Can You Hear, Bird)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1996)
John Ashbery
(The Mooring of Starting Out and Wakefulness)
Subscribers only reviewed by Roger Caldwell (1998)
John Ashbery
(Other Traditions. Charles Eliot Norton Lectures and Your Name Here)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2001)
John Ashbery
(A Worldly Country)
Subscribers only reviewed by Daniel Kane (2007)
John Ashbery
(Something Close to Music)
Subscribers only reviewed by Harry Sanderson (2022)
Cliff Ashby
(The Dogs of Dewsbury)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Wright (1978)
Cliff Ashby
(Lies & Dreams)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)
Cliff Ashby
(Plain Song: Collected Poems 1960-1985)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Cullup (1986)
David Ashford
(John Company, An Epic)
Subscribers only reviewed by Paul Ingram (2023)
Sean Ashton
(Living in a Land)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2016)
Anthony Astbury
(A Field of Large Daises: A Greville Press Anthology 1975-2010 edited by Anthony Astbury)
Subscribers only reviewed by Will Eaves (2011)
Virginia Astley
(The Curative Harp)
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)
Miguel Angel Asturias
(Men of Maize, translated by Gerald Martin)
Subscribers only reviewed by Stephe M. Hart (1989)
Polly Atkin
(Much with Body)
Subscribers only reviewed by Charlotte Wetton (2022)
Donald Atkinson
(Graffiti For Hard Hearts)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
Tiffany Atkinson
(Catulla et Al)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2012)
Tiffany Atkinson
(So Many Moving Parts)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2016)
Attar
(The Conference of the Birds translated by Sholeh Wolpe)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)
Derek Attridge
(Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Spittle (2014)
Derek Attridge
(The Work Of Literature)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2015)
David Attwooll
(David Attwooll (poems) & Andrew Walton (drawings) Otmoor)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
Margaret Atwood
(Murder in the Dark)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1985)
Margaret Atwood
(The Handmaid's Tale)
Subscribers only reviewed by Elizabeth Baines (1987)
Margaret Atwood
(Poems 1965-1975)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
Margaret Atwood
(Morning in the Burned House)
Subscribers only reviewed by Keith Silver (1995)
Margaret Atwood
(The Penelopiad)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2006)
W.H. Auden
(Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alan Young (1978)
W.H. Auden
(Norse Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Bill Manhire (1982)
W.H. Auden
(The Critical Heritage, edited by John Haffenden )
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1985)
W.H. Auden
(Letters from Iceland)
Subscribers only reviewed by Mark Thompson (1986)
W.H. Auden
Subscribers only reviewed by Janet Montefiore (1997)
W.H. Auden
(Prose 1926-1938)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1998)
Michael Augustin
(A Certain Koslowski – The Director’s Cut)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ross Cogan (2020)
Paul Auster
(The Art of Hunger and Other Essays)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
Paul Auster
(Collected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Evan Jones (2009)
Annemarie Austin
(Back from the Moon)
Subscribers only reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)
George Austin
(A Journey to Faith)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1992)
Janette Ayachi
(Hand Over Mouth Music)
Subscribers only reviewed by Hal Coase (2020)
Leo Aylen
(Return to Zululand)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Howe (1981)
Leo Aylen
(Red Alert: This Is A God Warning)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)
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