Books published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and hummingbirds as well as the sparrows of the title. Winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year).

Reading's final collection after this three-volume Collected Poems covering 24 collections published up until 2003 (followed by -273.15 in 2005).

Reissue of 1985 Collected Poems by a neglected mid-20th-century British poet. This edition is co-published with the book's original publisher, Whiteknights Press at Reading University.

First Collected edition of the poetry in English by one of India's greatest modern poets.

Annemarie Austin's sixth book of poetry from Bloodaxe.

New collection by leading British poet focussing on the shifting relationship between loss and gain, including many poems addressing the human cost of war and terror, most notably in 'Memorial', written after a visit to Oradour-sur-Glane, the still desolate French village where six hundred innocent people were massacred in 1944.

This book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems are included on an accompanying DVD featuring two Jean 'Binta' Breeze performances filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce.

From cosmology to infidelity, gentle truth to the fiercest of fairy-tales, this first collection from Kona Macphee tells an outsider's story in a voice that sings with the music of language.

Bernard Spencer's work has been out of print for many years. This new edition will be welcomed by readers and academics, and will help redress the recent neglect of his work. Publication is timed to coincide with a major conference on the work of Bernard Spencer at Reading University in 2011.

Kerry Hardie is one of Ireland's leading poets. This is the first edition to make her work widely available in Britain.

House of Tongues is concerned with acceptance and refusal, power and the lack of it, silence and the refusal of silence. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of Brendan Kennelly's most essential poems, accompanied by an audio CD of his own readings drawn from two classic recordings.

Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and has become Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. This edition draws on two collections published since his 2006 Bloodaxe retrospective, "Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems".

Collection of love poems by celebrated American author. Garrison Keillor reads (or sings) all the poems in the book on two free CDs inside, with music by Rich Dworsky.

Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. This selection includes work previously unpublished in English as well as poems from all four of his previous UK collections: The Same Sea in Us All, The Wandering Border, Through the Forest and Evening Brings Everything Back.

Substantial retrospective by leading British poet covering work written over four decades from ten collections.

An anthology of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features selections of work by 14 poets, with interviews, photographs and essays.

Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, George Szirtes, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. George Szirtes' lectures cover poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, George Seferis, Derek Mahon and several Eastern European writers.

Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, Ruth Padel, who hit the headlines in 2009 when she was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in controversial circumstances. The story of her election and resignation received international news coverage.

As in her poetry, so now in Extended Similes Jenny Joseph shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love.

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

The Squirrels Are Dead is a striking and assured debut from a distinctive new talent in Irish poetry. Miriam Gamble is one of the new poets included in the Bloodaxe anthology "Voice Recognition". She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007.

Katie Donovan is a leading Irish poet. "Rootling" draws on three previous Bloodaxe collections, "Watermelon Man" (1993), "Entering the Mare" (1997) and "Day of the Dead" (2002), together with a whole collection of new work.

Chase Twichell is one of America's leading poets. "Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been" draws on several collections written over 35 years, including two published in Britain by Faber and two by Bloodaxe.

Grace Nichols is one of Britain's best-known and most popular Caribbean poets. This selection includes all her best-known poems, many of which are frequently anthologised and read on radio programmes.

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's best-known poets. "Dragon Talk" was her first new book since "Poems 1960-2000", for which she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006.

Second collection by American soldier-poet who served in Bosnia and Iraq relating to war and its aftermath. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.