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The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way, was composed by the English poet and teacher Gervase of Melkley. This edition presents an improved Latin edition based on the manuscripts and a new English translation.

The Dantesque political allegory The Labyrinth of Fortune, composed in 1444 by Juan de Mena, reflects on Juan II of Castile's contentious kingship and frames the Reconquest of Moorish territories as a sacred task. This is the first English translation of a Spanish masterpiece that influenced Miguel Cervantes and Luis de Góngora.

A piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves. Framed by the story of escape from a toxic marriage, Chaotic Good focuses on the incremental ways in which power accumulates, shifts and is relinquished within both home and community. Incisive, rigorous and artful, Isabelle Baafi reminds us of the importance of self-determination, and how, when we feel most eroded, we might discover what we need deep within ourselves: 'This time and every time, I was the code I needed to find my way back.''With sure formal dexterity and an exciting precision of lyrical imagining, Baafi explores the complicated pathways of suspicion and uncertainty, and - most vitally - the simultaneous possibilities of threat and beauty, mistrust and hope, darkness and joy. The knowing narrative detail is charged as strongly with ideas as with feeling, resulting in a highly original fusion of resistance and compassionate determination.' Jane Draycott'In this wise-hearted and deft debut, Baafi gets to the grain of family, inheritance, the grit of growing up and the grappling to become oneself.' Rachel Long'Isabelle Baafi's Chaotic Good is a debut of amazing endurance. Its formal pressures create a kind of kaleidoscopic intensity that - with each turn of the chamber - brings newly beautiful and painful shapes into focus.' Will Harris'Chaotic Good offers beautiful, urgent poems to remake our breaking world. From the playground all the way to the marriage bed, these redemption songs return to heal and emancipate.' alice hiller

One of the most diverse and maverick intellectuals of the early modern period, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and philosophical beliefs. In this edition Lisa Walters brings together popular works such as The Blazing World, alongside lesser-known poems and prose pieces, like The Ambitious Traitor.

A collection of poetry by one author

"Provides college instructors with discussion of original sources and biographical and critical works on C. P. Cavafy, as well as approaches for teaching his works in the context of queer studies, classical historiography, postcoloniality, music, archival research, and the minority status of Greeks in British-controlled Egypt"--

"Provides college instructors with discussion of original sources and biographical and critical works on C. P. Cavafy, as well as approaches for teaching his works in the context of queer studies, classical historiography, postcoloniality, music, archival research, and the minority status of Greeks in British-controlled Egypt"--

"This book explores how early modern writers used poetry to fight food insecurity. Authors like Robert Herrick and Anne Bradstreet witnessed the privatization of public farmland, rising food prices amidst uncontrolled inflation, mass starvation in nascent North American colonies, and the racist violence of the Caribbean plantation slavery system. Anders M. Greene-Crow shows how these authors' experiments with literary form sought to change their readers' eating habits and beliefs about food and diet. Simultaneously, this book reveals why criticism began to discount literature's power as a tool for social change, connecting the political history of New Criticism to close reading practices that reinforce the scarcity culture of literature departments today. Taking writers' material conditions into account in analyzing form, this book recovers the role of one of our most basic needs-the need to eat-within literary criticism, shedding new light on modern-day food ethics and activism's place in literature"--

In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; the pandemic; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, this book maps an ecopoetics of vulnerability and resilience. While environmental fiction has been widely studied, ecopoetry has not received the same level of attention. This book studies the work of over 50 poets from the Global South and the formerly colonized, including John Kinsella, Tanure Ojaide, Linda Hogan, Kofi Awonoor, Okot p'Bitek, Ben Okri, and Sherwin Bitsui. It traces an ecological consciousness that cuts across human and nonhuman, living and non-living domains. It is interested in the making, unmaking and remaking of worlds and meanings in the age of cataclysmic climate shifts, while aware of the histories that fashioned the planet in unjust and unequal ways, and to which the poets bear witness, as well as propose alternative ways of seeing and meaning-making.

In Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Shira Wolfe moves between cinematic poetry, dream sequences and memoir to describe a period of her life spent in Belgrade and traversing the Balkans - from Sarajevo to the Bay of Kotor, from Stara Planina to Mount Avala. Most of all, it is an ode to the Belgrade of her past and the relationships she formed there, constellating around that city and continuously reappearing elsewhere in encounters fuelled by synchronicity. In her world, cities become smells; statues can be read; and the boundaries between art and life, between self and other, are always blurred. Jugoslovenska Kinoteka will be published as a bilingual edition in English and Serbian.

gestalt is a poetic enquiry of the Panchayat, a collective of South Asian and Black artists/practitioners involved in communal archiving, artmaking and activism in Britain from 1988-2015.

The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish offers a unique glimpse into the vibrant world of Turkish poetry, featuring 172 poems by more than 60 poets, most of whom are still active today. From neo-lyrical verses to avant-garde experiments, this anthology reflects the rich tapestry of voices emerging from Turkey's literary scene. With a balanced representation of gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity, this collection brings together works from poets associated with 25 different publishing houses, including both major literary institutions and smaller presses nurturing fresh talent. Oxford Turkologist Laurent Mignon provides the foreword, complemented by two introductory essays that contextualize the sociopolitical climate and literary trends shaping Turkish poetry in the new millennium and highlight key events, journals, and manifestos that have influenced the art form.

Paradise Lost is an epic poem that narrates the biblical story of humanity's fall from grace. The tale opens in Hell, where Satan and his followers, cast out of Heaven, plan revenge against God.

Traversing an axis of Liverpool-London, and following a car accident in New York, The Overmind is an attempt to metabolise experience whilst seeing the world through the skin of a jellyfish.

Dimmet by Rob Miles is a profound exploration of twilight spaces-those physical and emotional edgelands where meaning shifts and boundaries blur. These finely wrought poems balance delicacy with depth, capturing fleeting moments of stillness, nature, and human connection. Miles' poetry makes the familiar strange, drawing readers into a world of sharp contrasts-light and shadow, joy and loss. His lyrical voice is both intimate and expansive, reflecting on the subtle intersections of time, memory, and place. Dimmet is a testament to the power of poetry to transform everyday life into something extraordinary.

Heartwarming poems from award-winning Iranian and Afghan women poets living in exile. Different voices speak of love, desire, freedom, personal trauma, war, torture, imprisonment, or longing for home. But they chant mainly about life. An ode to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, and in memory of Jina Mahsa Amini.

Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow, Denise Riley's exacting meditations on loss, grief, and life thereafter, are published together for the first time.