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Hans Christoph Bach
(The Wedding at Port-au-Prince, translated from the German by Ralph Manheim)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)
Thérèse Bachand
(luce a cavallo)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Muckle (2010)
Paul Bachelor
(The Sinking Road)
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2009)
June Badeni
(The Slender Tree, a life of Alice Meynell)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Jesson-Dibley (1981)
Rowland Bagnall
(A Few Interiors)
Subscribers only reviewed by Anthony Lawrence (2020)
Elisaveta Bagryana
(Penelope of the Twentieth Century: selected poems, translated by Brenda Walker)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1994)
Charles Bainbridge
(fifty fifty, edited by Charles Bainbridge, Tania Earnshaw, Selima Hill, Mimi Khalvati, Stephen Knight, Simon Smith)
Subscribers only reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)
István Baka
(Selected Poems. Translated by Peter Zollman and others)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris Miller (2005)
David Baker
(Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets and Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Spittle (2015)
Kenneth Baker
(Unauthorized Versions: Poems and their Parodies, edited by Kenneth Baker)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.J. Fox (1991)
Kenneth Baker
(The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry, edited by Kenneth Baker)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (2001)
Tony Baker
(Three Part Invention & other scored occasions)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Muckle (2004)
Peter Bakowski
(The heart at 3 a.m.)
Subscribers only reviewed by Brian Henry (1999)
John Balaban
(Locusts at the Edge of Summer)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (1998)
Peter Balakian
(Ozone Journal and Vise and Shadow: Essays on the lyric imagination, poetry, art, and culture)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jamie Osborn (2016)
Chris Baldick
(The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1985)
Michael Baldwin
(King Horn)
Subscribers only reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1984)
Iain Bamforth
(Open Workings)
Subscribers only reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (1998)
Iain Bamforth
(Scattered Limbs)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kirsty Gunn (2021)
Manuel Bandeira
(Recife, translated by Eddie Flintoff )
Subscribers only reviewed by Bill Affleck (1986)
Ari Banias
(Anybody)
reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
Stephen Bann
(The True Vine: On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition )
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
Gavin Bantock
(Dragons)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
Gavin Bantock
(SeaManShip)
Subscribers only reviewed by Edward Picot (2004)
Amiri Baraka
(The Collected Letters and Edward Dorn and Leroy Lucas, The Shoshoneans)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alex Latter (2014)
Yevgeny Baratynsky
(Half-light & Other Poems bilingual edition)
Subscribers only reviewed by Boris Dralyuk (2016)
Ros Barber
(How Things Are On Thursday)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kate Keogan (2006)
Ros Barber
(Material)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ben Wilkinson (2010)
Mourid Barghouti
(Midnight and Other Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Marius Kociejowski (2010)
George Barker
(Dialogues etc.)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Wright (1977)
George Barker
(Street Ballads)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Wright (1993)
George Barker
(ROBERT FRASER The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker)
Subscribers only reviewed by Julia Blackburn (2002)
Howard Barker
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
Nicholas Barker
(Visible Voices)
Subscribers only reviewed by Grant Shipcott (2016)
Sebastian Barker
(On the Rocks)
Subscribers only reviewed by Blake Morrison (1979)
Sebastian Barker
(The Dream of Intelligence)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
Toby Barlow
(Sharp Teeth)
Subscribers only reviewed by Sidney Hart (2008)
Mary Barnard
(Assault on Mount Helion, a Literary Memoir)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Levi (1985)
Robert Barnard
(Bodies)
Subscribers only reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)
Anthony Barnett
(Fear and Misadventure; Mud Settles)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Trotter (1979)
Anthony Barnett
(North North, I Said, No, Wait a Minute, South, Oh, I don't Know (148 Political Poems))
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Riley (1987)
Anthony Barnett
(The Resting Bell)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Riley (1988)
Anthony Barnett
(Little Stars and Straw Breasts; Michael Grant, ed., The Poetry of Anthony Barnett)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)
Anthony Barnett
(Little Stars and Straw Beasts: new poems and The Poetry of Anthony Barnett edited by Michael Grant)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1994)
Anthony Barnett
(Carp and Rubato)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Grant (1995)
Anthony Barnett
(Antonyms & Others)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Brinton (2012)
Anthony Barnett
(Poems & and Translations)
Subscribers only reviewed by Timothy Harris (2013)
Anthony Barnett
(Lithos)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)
John Barnie
(Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984 - 2003)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Maber (2007)
Willis Barnstone
(Mexico in My Heart: New & Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Evan Jones (2016)
Alex Barr
(Letting in the Carnival)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.B. McCully (1985)
Simon Barraclough
(Los Alamos Mon Amour)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2009)
John Barrie
(No Hiding Place - Essays on the New Nature and Poetry)
Subscribers only reviewed by Roger Caldwell (1997)
Peter Barry
(Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court)
Subscribers only reviewed by Matthew Francis (2007)
Sebastian Barry
(The Water Colourist)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1984)
Sebastian Barry
(The Engine of Owl-Light)
Subscribers only reviewed by Francis Doherty (1989)
Roland Barthes
(A Lover's Discourse: fragments, translated by Richard Howard)
Subscribers only reviewed by Christopher Norris (1980)
Brian Bartlett
(Wanting the Day: Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by James McGrath (2005)
Elizabeth Bartlett
(A Lifetime of Dying)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
Elizabeth Bartlett
(Strange Territory)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
Elizabeth Bartlett
(Look, No Face)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
Lee Bartlett
(Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, edited by Lee Bartlett)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
Jonathan Bate
(The Song of the Earth)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2000)
Jonathan Bate
(Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Troupes (2016)
Jeannine Baude
(C'était un paysage, Océan, Concerto pour une roche)
Subscribers only reviewed by Roger Little (1996)
Charles Baudelaire
(Complete Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
Charles Baudelaire
(Paris Blues: The Poems in Prose with La Fanfarlo, bilingual edition edited, introduced and translated by Francis Scarfe and The Complete Verse, bilingual edition edited, introduced and with plain prose translations by Francis Scarfe )
Subscribers only reviewed by John Taylor (2013)
Jean Baudrillard
(Cool Memories 1980-1985)
Subscribers only reviewed by Robert Julian (1988)
James K. Baxter
(Selected Poems, edited and introduction by Paul Millar)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Dennison (2010)
Taner Baybars
(Narcissus in a Dry Pool)
Subscribers only reviewed by Matt Simpson (1980)
Taner Baybars
(Pregnant Shadows)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)
John Bayley
(Shakespeare and Tragedy)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Swigg (1982)
John Bayley
(Housman's Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Gregory Woods (1994)
Dan Beachy-Quick
(Of Silence and Song)
Subscribers only reviewed by Valerie Duff (2018)
Fred Beake
(The Whiteness of Her Becoming)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
Victoria Bean
(Edited by Chris McCabe and Victoria Bean The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century)
Subscribers only reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2016)
Bruce Beasley
(Summer Mystagogia)
Subscribers only reviewed by Brian Henry (1998)
Roderick Beaton
(George Seferis)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1992)
Simone de Beauvoir
(Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir Today: Conversations 1972-78, translated by Marianne Howarth )
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1985)
Bruce Beaver
(As it was)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
Zeina Hashem Beck
(There Was and How Much There Was)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
Elaine Beckett
(Faber New Poets)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
Samuel Beckett
(For to End Yet Again & Other Fizzles)
Subscribers only reviewed by Edward Neill (1979)
Samuel Beckett
(Company)
Subscribers only reviewed by Victoria Rothschild (1981)
Samuel Beckett
(Dream of Fair to Middling Women)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Samuel Beckett
(The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 [second volume of a projected four], edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck )
Subscribers only reviewed by W.S. Milne (2012)
Madeleine Beckman
(Hyacinths from the Wreckage)
Subscribers only reviewed by Elizabeth Davies (2015)
Jack Beeching
(Images au Miroir/Mirror Images )
Subscribers only reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1980)
Jack Beeching
(The Invention of Love)
Subscribers only reviewed by Charles Hobday (1997)
Patricia Beer
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1980)
Patricia Beer
(Friend of Heraclitus)
Subscribers only reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
Patricia Beer
(Autumn)
Subscribers only reviewed by Vona Groarke (1998)
Martin Bell
(Complete Poems, edited by Peter Porter)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alan Munton (1990)
Frances Bellerby
(The First-Known)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Wright (1978)
Catherine Belsey
(Critical Practice)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
Andrey Bely
(The Dramatic Symphony, translated by Roger and Angela Keys, and The Forms of Art, translated by John Elsworth)
Subscribers only reviewed by Avril Pyman (1987)
Andrey Bely
(Selected Essays, edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Cassedy)
Subscribers only reviewed by Avril Pyman (1987)
Chris Bendon
(Constructions)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
J.A.W. Bennet
(Poetry of the Passion - Studies in twelve centuries of English verse)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Louth (1984)
Peter Bennet
(Sky-Riding)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
Bonnie A. Bennett
(Donatello)
Subscribers only reviewed by George Steiner (1985)
Tony Bennett
(Outside Literature)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
Connie Bensley
(Moving In)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)
Connie Bensley
(Choosing To Be A Swan)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rennie Parker (1995)
Fiona Benson
(Bright Travellers)
Subscribers only reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2016)
Fiona Benson
(Ephemeron)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rebecca Hurst (2023)
Asa Benveniste
(Throw Out the Life Line, Lay Out the Corse: Poems 1965-1985)
Subscribers only reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1985)
Stephen Berg
(With Akhmatova at the Black Gates)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
Stephen Berg
(Oblivion)
Subscribers only reviewed by Justin Quinn (1997)
H.C. ten Berge
(The White Shaman, edited by Theo Hermans, translated by various hands)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Bernard Bergonzi
(Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1990)
Bernard Bergonzi
(War Poets and Other Subjects)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (2000)
Anne Berkeley
(The Men from Praga)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2011)
Sara Berkeley
(Home Movie Nights)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
David Berman
(Actual Air)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2000)
April Bernard
(Swan Electric)
Subscribers only reviewed by Julia Forster (2004)
Thomas Bernhard
(In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon, translated by James Reidel)
Subscribers only reviewed by Edmund Hardy (2006)
Charles Bernstein
(Girly Man)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2007)
Charles Bernstein
(All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz (2011)
Gina Berriault
(The Descent)
Subscribers only reviewed by Mark Thompson (1988)
Ted Berrigan
(The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan)
Subscribers only reviewed by Daniel Kane (2006)
Ted Berrigan
(The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan)
Subscribers only reviewed by Yasmine Shamma (2011)
Emily Berry
(Dear Boy)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2014)
Emily Berry
(Stranger Baby)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2017)
James Berry
(Windrush Songs)
Subscribers only reviewed by Gavin Hudson (2007)
Liz Berry
(The patron saint of schoolgirls)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2012)
Wendell Berry
(The landscape of harmony)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kenneth Cox (1989)
Wendell Berry
(The Gift of Gravity: Selected Poems 1968-2000)
Subscribers only reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2004)
Wendell Berry
(The Peace of Wild Things)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2018)
Attilio Bertolucci
(Selected Poems, bilingual edition, translated by Charles Tomlinson)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1994)
Patrick Besson
(Dara, translated by Nicole Irving )
Subscribers only reviewed by Harry Guest (1988)
Crispin Best
(Faber New Poets)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
John Betjeman
(Uncollected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)
A.C. Bevan
(Field Trips in the Anthropocene)
Subscribers only reviewed by Rory Waterman (2020)
Jill Bialosky
(The End of Desire)
Subscribers only reviewed by Brian Henry (1998)
Frank Bidart
(The Book of the Body)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Holloway (1981)
Frank Bidart
(Desire)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (1998)
Ruth Bidgood
(The Print of Miracle)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1979)
Ruth Bidgood
(Lighting Candles)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Bird (1984)
Ruth Bidgood
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
Ruth Bidgood
(The Fluent Moment)
Subscribers only reviewed by Caroline Sylge (1997)
Ruth Bidgood
(Time Being)
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2010)
Wolf Bierman
(Poems and Ballads, translated by Steve Gooch)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1979)
Robert Billings
(The Revels)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1987)
Kate Bingham
(Archway Sonnets)
Subscribers only reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (2021)
Caroline Bird
(The Hat-Stand Union)
Subscribers only reviewed by Maya Catherine Popa (2014)
Julia Bird
(Hannah and the Monk)
Subscribers only reviewed by Henry King (2010)
Rebecca Bird
(Shrinking Ultraviolet)
Subscribers only reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2018)
John Birtwhistle
(Tidal Models)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
Elizabeth Bishop
(The Collected Prose, edited by Robert Giroux)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Levi (1985)
Neil Bissoondath
(Digging up the Mountains)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1988)
Neil Bissoondath
(Digging up the Mountains)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)
David Black
(Gravitations)
Subscribers only reviewed by A. P. Swarbrick (1980)
Thomas Blackburn
(Post Mortem and Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1979)
Thomas Blackburn
(Bread for the Winter Birds: Last Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Wright (1981)
Thomas Blackburn
(The Adjacent Kingdom: Collected Last Poems, edited and with an Introduction by Jean MacVean)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)
Harry Blamires
(Twentieth-century English Literature)
Subscribers only reviewed by Fraser Steel (1984)
Maurice Blanchot
(The Last Man, translated by Lydia Davis)
Subscribers only reviewed by Harry Guest (1989)
Peter Bland
(Paper Boats)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
Peter Bland
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Duggan (1998)
Peter Bland
(Remembering England)
Subscribers only reviewed by Josh Hinton (2015)
C. D. Blanton
(Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Latimer (2016)
Jean Bleakney
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Carol Rumens (2017)
Steen Steensen Blicher
(The Diary of a Parish Clerk and other stories Introduction by Margaret Drabble. Translated by Paula Hostrup-Jessen)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Arkell (1997)
John Blight
(Holiday Sea Sonnets)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
Alexander Blok
(The Twelve, translated by Jack Lindsay )
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
Harold Bloom
(The Flight to Lucifer)
Subscribers only reviewed by Paul Carter (1981)
Harold Bloom
(Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1984)
Harold Bloom
(The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2016)
Edmund Blunden
(Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War Edited by John Greening)
Subscribers only reviewed by Robyn Marsack (2016)
Jonathan Blunk
(James Wright: A Life in Poetry)
Subscribers only reviewed by Tony Roberts (2018)
Robert Bly
(This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1979)
Robert Bly
(Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Tromp (1999)
Ronald Blythe
(From the Headlands)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
Jean Boase-Beier
(New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe. Edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Alexandra Büchler and Fiona Sampson)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris Miller (2005)
Jean Boase-Beier
(Poetry of the Holocaust: An Anthology)
Subscribers only reviewed by Tara Bergin (2020)
Johannes Bobrowski
(From The Rivers, translated by Ruth and Matthew Mead)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Vince (1978)
Carl Bode
(Practical Magic)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ruth Morse (1982)
Nina Bogin
(The Winter Orchards)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jennie Feldman (2001)
Willard Bohn
((ed.), Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jeremy Over (2018)
Willard Bohn
(Reading Apollinaire’s Calligrammes)
Subscribers only reviewed by Beverley Bie Brahic (2018)
Eavan Boland
(The War Horse)
Subscribers only reviewed by Stan Smith (1978)
Eavan Boland
(The Journey)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1988)
Eavan Boland
(The Lost Land)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (1999)
Eavan Boland
(The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Tromp (2001)
Eavan Boland
(Domestic Violence)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2007)
Eavan Boland
(A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Walls (2012)
Eavan Boland
(The Historians)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kate Arthur (2021)
Rosita Boland
(Muscle Creek)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
Alan Bold
(Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1978)
Alan Bold
(MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal)
Subscribers only reviewed by Brian Morton (1984)
Alan Bold
((ed.), W. H. Auden: The Far Interior)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jem Poster (1988)
Alan Bold
(MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve]: A Critical Biography)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Craig (1989)
Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani
(Knitting Drum-Machines for Exiled Tongues)
Subscribers only reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2023)
Peter de Bolla
(Art Matters)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2002)
Edward Bond
(At the Inland Sea)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1998)
Yves Bonnefoy
(Things dying things newborn: selected poems of Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Anthony Rudolf, with wood engravings by Willow Winston )
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1986)
Yves Bonnefoy
(Early Poems 1947-1959 translated by Galway Kinnell and Richard Peaver and In The Shadow's Light translated by John T. Naughton)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1991)
Yves Bonnefoy
(On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, translated by Galway Kinnell)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
Yves Bonnefoy
(Écrus sur l'art et livres avec les artistes, La Vie errante, and Remarques sur le dessin)
Subscribers only reviewed by Roger Little (1994)
Yves Bonnefoy
(New and Selected Poems, edited by John Naughton and Antony Rudolf and The Lure and the Truth of Painting: selected essays on art, edited by Richard Stamelman)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1996)
Yves Bonnefoy
(The Arrière-Pays)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris Miller (2012)
Yves Bonnefoy
(Beginning and End of the Snow, translated by Emily Grosholz with watercolours by Farhad Ostovani )
Subscribers only reviewed by Beverley Bie Brahic (2013)
Yves Bonnefoy
(The Red Scarf: Followed by Two Stages and Additional Notes)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris Miller (2021)
Sean Bonney
(Poisons, Their Antidotes)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (2004)
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
(Doe Songs)
Subscribers only reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2019)
Malika Booker
(Pepper Seed)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2016)
Martin Booth
(British Poetry 1964-84: Driving Through The Barricades)
Subscribers only reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1986)
Elisabeth Borchers
(Fish Magic, translated by Anneliese Wagner )
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1990)
Kevin Borman
(Seasons in a Raw Landscape)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
Jenny Bornholdt
(Lost and Somewhere Else)
Subscribers only reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2020)
Sean Borodale
(Human Work)
Subscribers only reviewed by Joey Connolly (2016)
Leonid Borodin
(Partings, translated by David Floyd)
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Roo Borson
(Intent, or The Weight of the World and Intent, or The Weight of the World)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska
(Pocket Apocalypse, translated by Gerry Murphy)
Subscribers only reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2006)
Keith Bosley
(Stations)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
Keith Bosley
(The Great Bear: A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1995)
Keith Bosley
(The Wedding Guest: Selected Poems, edited by Owen Lowery and Anthony Rudolf)
Subscribers only reviewed by Hilary Davies (2019)
Alain Bosquet
(Instead of Music, translated by William Frawley )
Subscribers only reviewed by John Clark (1981)
Ronald Bottrall
(Against a Setting Sun)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
André du Bouchet
(Openwork: Poetry and Prose translated by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers)
Subscribers only reviewed by Chris Miller (2015)
Eva Bourke
(Piano)
Subscribers only reviewed by Charlie Cocksedge (2012)
Derek Bourne-Jones
(Floating Reefs)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
Pierre Boutang
(Maurras, la destinée et l'œvre)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1985)
Nicolas Bouvier
(The Scorpion-Fish, translated by Robyn Marsack)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1989)
Emmanuel Bove
(My Friends, translated by Janet Louth)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1987)
Helen Bowell
(The Barman)
Subscribers only reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2022)
Edgar Bowers
(Living Together: new and collected poems )
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1979)
Edgar Bowers
(Witnesses)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
Malcolm Bowie
(Freud, Proust and Lacan: theory as fiction)
Subscribers only reviewed by Raymond Tallis (1989)
Arthur Boyars
(Dictations: Selected Poems 1940-2009 )
Subscribers only reviewed by Elaine Feinstein (2012)
Karin Boye
(Complete Poems, translated by David McDuff)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1995)
Robert Boyers
(Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner)
Subscribers only reviewed by Tony Roberts (2024)
Charles Boyle
(House of Cards)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1983)
Charles Boyle
(Sleeping Rough)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1988)
Charles Boyle
(The Disguise, Poems 1977–2001)
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Nicholas Boyle
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