Books published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). "People Who Like Meatballs" is her 14th book of poetry - her 11th from Bloodaxe.

"The Blue Den" is a book of lyrical, sensuous poems which builds on the achievement of Stephanie Norgate's debut collection "Hidden River", which was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

A collection of poems that are inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where the author would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by contemplating black swans, blue waves, seagulls, trees and rocks.

George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary. A companion volume to George Szirtes' "New and Collected Poems", this book offers a sustained analysis of Szirtes' work, mapping his development chronologically and thematically, and paying close attention to form and technique in its analysis of each poem.

Brings together translations of Tomas Venclova's work and includes a selection of poems from his 1997 volume "Winter Dialogue".

Covers Selima Hill's books from "Saying Hello at the Station" (1984) to "Red Roses" (2006), and "The Hat" (2008). This book is a selection drawn from ten collections, each offering variations on her abiding themes: women's identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family conflict and mental illness, men, animals and human civilisation.

The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, forgetting or loss, though there are moving elegies among them. This is a not-quite-definable zero that gives surprising edge to life and language round it.

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, Polly Clark's second collection was a Poetry Book Society Choice.

Sarah Wardle was poet-in-residence with Tottenham Hotspur FC. Her Score is a winning commentary on contemporary culture, shooting at the heart of consciousness, family, sport, the female voice and Darwinian science.

Piotr Sommer is one of Poland's leading poets. Continued extends and enlarges the achievement of his earlier Bloodaxe selection, Things to Translate, and spans his whole career to date.

'Throw in the Vowels' is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins including a free audio CD of poems read by the author.

From London's hospital wards to rural Italy and the Great Plains, Sally Read's first collection eulogises the emotional and physical borders we cross, whether in sexual surrender, the squeezing of a trigger, or the point at which skin is pierced by a needle. What results appeals to the thresholds at which we succumb to desire, love, or grief. Yet, ultimately, there is tenderness and acceptance as she considers what breaks us, and what binds.

Cheryl Follon is a feisty Scottish writer. The poems of "All Your Talk" are spiced with down-to-earth humour and a lively, often wicked wit.

This edition combines two previous separate editions of The Moscow Notebooks and The Voronezh Notebooks published by Bloodaxe. The Moscow Notebooks cover his years of persecution (1930-34), when he was arrested for writing an unflattering poem about Stalin. In Voronezh he broke a silence of 18 months, writing the 90 poems of the Voronezh Notebooks.