Books published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Geis was the third collection by one of Ireland's most acclaimed younger poets, winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016. It was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2016 Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week.

Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, writer and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent. This was her first new book of poems since Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006, and was followed by her third collection, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, in 2018.

Second book from Farish, whose debut collection, Intimates (Cape, 2005), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is a thematic collection of poems exploring the lives and love of Chopin and French novelist George Sand.

The Malarkey was Helen Dunmore's first poetry book after Glad of These Times (2007) and Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), and was followed by her tenth and final collection, Inside the Wave. It brings together poems of great lyricism, feeling and artistry. Its title poem won the National Poetry Competition in 2010.

Anthology of London's Poetry Parnassus festival featuring poets from over 200 countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, with an introduction by the festival's curator Simon Armitage.

This pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the trilogy is a Staying Alive travel companion. As well as selecting favourite poems from the trilogy - readers' and writers' choices as well as his own favourites - editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems.

Expanded edition of Roy Fisher's definitive retrospective edition to which the Costa-shortlisted "Standard Midland" (2010) has been added.

Gig Ryan is one of Australia's leading poets. Her edgy, excoriating poetry takes the pulse of urban Australia, but her territory is as much the human rat-race and the hell of contemporary life as the particular lives she seizes upon with icy, ironic precision. This is her first book of poetry to be published in the UK.

New collection by Philip Gross, winner of the TS Eliot Prize 2009 for his previous book The Water Table.

British poet Freda Downie died in 1993, and her Collected Poems were published two years later in 1995. Written in the last year of her life, this memoir is a sharp distillation of her melancholic sensibility. She recalls the high and low points of a poor, often disrupted English childhood, evoking people and places with the acute sensitivity of an isolated child and adolescent. She was an only child, and spent her early years living in a temporary wooden house on the outskirts of London, from where she roamed the lanes and woods of the nearby Kent countryside, or was taken out by her parents in her father's motorbike. The family evacuated in 1939, but later returned to London in time for the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. The family made a hazardous sea voyage around the Cape in the early 40s to her father's work in Australia and returned in 1944 to a London under the threat from the V1 and V2 bombs. Downie's memoir tells of a single figure moving through the world, between yearning and disappointment, between fear and the desire for oblivion, listening and watching everything intently with a poet's witty, even humorous attention.

Shortlisted for the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize, this third collection by Esther Morgan is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and includes 'This Morning', winner of the 2010 Bridport Poetry Prize.

First collection by a young Black British poet already well-known on the UK performance circuit and for his work in schools. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

Large retrospective by one of America's leading poets, collecting her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of Ireland.

Poetry Book Society Recommendation: second collection by Welsh poet whose debut Bloodaxe collection "The Secret" was also a PBS Recommendation.

J.S. Harry is one of Australia's leading poets. The poems in "Not Finding Wittgenstein" feature Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who searches the world for philosophers, conversing with Ludwig Wittgenstein in Antarctica, Bertrand Russell in Japan, and with A.J. Ayer and J.L. Austin in Iraq before and after the invasion.

Fourth book of poems by Jane Griffiths, whose previous Bloodaxe title "Another Country" was shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection.

Jennifer Maiden is one of Australia's leading poets. "Intimate Geography" is a selection from her four most recent collections, "Acoustic Shadow" (1993), "Mines" (1999), "Friendly Fire" (2005) and "Pirate Rain" (2010).

Come, Thief centres on the beauty and fragility of our lives, touching on love, science, ageing and mortality, war and the political, the revelatory daily object, and the full embrace of our existence. For each facet of our lives Jane Hirshfield finds its transformative portrait, its particular memorable, singing and singular name.

Second collection by Amanda Dalton whose first book "How to Disappear" (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and chosen as a Next Generation Poets title by the Poetry Book Society in 2004.

A book in three sections: The Laurelude, a blank verse myth about Ulverston's Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel; Othermoor, a cubist version of the North; and The Madmen of Elgin squashing both Lost Boys and Solitary Reapers into Middle Scots verse forms for a pre-millennial song-and-dance. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Reissue with new audio CD of Frances Horovitz's Collected Poems (1985), one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry.

Ahren Warner's first book-length collection is one of the most talked about debuts in the poetry world of recent years. Still in his mid 20s, Ahren Warner's innovative, highly musical poetry has already influenced the work not just of his contempories but of better-known older poets. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets with a growing reputation in the US and Europe. Haywire is her first British publication, and draws on two editions published in the States by New Directions. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

Ireland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed.

Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. His poems relate to nature, myth and his fishing background.

Ex-Salt poet Mark Waldron joins Bloodaxe with his third collection. 'Mark Waldron is the most striking and unusual new voice to have emerged in British poetry for some time.' - John Stammers