Books published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Final collection by one of Canada's leading younger poets, the first after her UK selection Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 from Bloodaxe. 'Canada's coolest poet' - Time Out (London).

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and a Poetry Book Society Choice, Subramaniam's new collection presents poems of wonder and precarious elation, and the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human.

First UK Selected Poems by one of America's leading poets, known for his highly entertaining and provocative poetry. Launched with a UK reading tour.

Second collection by a highly talented young poet from Northern Ireland whose debut, The Squirrels Are Dead, won a Somerset Maugham Award.

Roddy Lumsden is one of the most inventive poets writing today, always keen to explore and invent forms and to challenge the musical limits of language. Not All Honey was his seventh collection, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.

Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Adam Lowe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire took part in The Complete Works 2 mentoring project an initiative promoting diversity and quality in British poetry.

Seventh collection by one of Ireland's leading poets including a meditation of grief. Her Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2011.

This new retrospective by one of Scotland's most distinguished poets supersedes his early collected volumes, In the Kibble Place (1987) and Stolen Light (1999).

New retrospective by one of Ireland's leading poets.

A collection of essays on Elizabeth Bishop drawing on work presented at the first UK Elizabeth Bishop confrence, held at Newcastle University. It brings together papers by both academic critics and leading poets, including Michael Donaghy, Vicki Feaver, Deryn Rees-Jones and Anne Stevenson.

First UK edition (bilingual) of one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets.

This recent collection by one of Romania's foremost poets, her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize, is a visionary meditation on life and death from the particular perspective of her native land.

New retrospective by parson-poet known for his contemplative poetry published by Bloodaxe as well as for his religious writings published by SPCK.

Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism is her 15th book of poetry - her 12th from Bloodaxe - and comprises three sequences.

First collection by British poet and critic (of Sri Lankan parentage) with lively poems fusing politics, personal history and myth.

David Constantine's 10th book of poetry, published on his 70th birthday, celebrates people and places in literature, life and mythology.

Retrospective with new work from northern poet shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

First British publication by the rising star of European poetry

New gift book edition of a classic anthology of love poems presented in a beautiful quarterbound hardback.

Fourth collection of poems from Sarah Wardle with a focus on recovery from mental health problems.

Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage, following the failing of the body, through the mind's weakening hold on the borderline between the present and the traumas of the past. It follows the journey to the end - then beyond, to the tentative byways through which mourning moves.

A greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent).

Third collection by acclaimed Scottish poet, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and a Poetry Book Society Choice. Herd's debut No Hiding Place was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and her second, Dead Redhead, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) was one of the most significant and influential American poets of the 20th century. Her poetry confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change and family life. This is the first UK edition of her work.

First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry.

Anthology of poems on ageing from Shakespeare to the present time, with foreword by Joan Bakewell.

This book-length poem by a leading British poet (born in Pakistan) is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, weaving a deeply personal story of fortitude and courage. Thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced at the time of partition, with families later split between the two countries.