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Beginning as one of the cool, post-modernist Slovak "aNesthetic" and "Text" poets using a matter-of-fact language with precise visual perceptions, Maria Ferencuhova work has expanded its range of concerns from urban life to a wider perception of the individual in a world damaged by history and threatened by environmental destruction.

"Duggan's is a poetry that determines to surprise: almost daring a reader to exclaim: you wrote like this about that?" -Alan Wearne, Sydney Morning Herald

A Greek merchant-explorer Pytheas is said to be the first person to have circumnavigated the British Isles, in 325 BCE, thereby fixing the islands in the historical imagination as archipelagic, maritime, aloof. His own account of the voyage is lost. This poem attempts to make good that lack.

"In House At Out, Mark Goodwin steps into a new topography: a world that is a 'wild's inf i nite b its' approached through the gaps and hollows in the word. The holes are apertures as we zoom into language, crack open word hordes and find worlds of association." -Simon Perril

Robert Sheppard's selection draws on every book of his poetry since Returns (1985) through to Words Out of Time (2015), and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his work and their restlessly changing forms.

Sascha Akhtar's method-writing invites the poetry into a pre-envisaged form which is then adhered to stringently. The manuscript was written continuously on exactly 199 pages. The poet was interested in the idea of 99 names of Divine Power in Sufi philosophy, with the 100th name being a secret.

The figures we have tell that the number of new books of poetry published each year nearly doubled between 1976 and 1993 and then nearly doubled again by 2000, then staying at this level. In the years 1999-2001 roughly as many books of poetry were published as in the whole of the 1970s. This is a poetry boom.

Shortly before her death, philosopher Gillian Rose began work on a new book-her Paradiso-thus fulfilling her promise at the end of Love's Work to 'stay in the fray, in the revel of ideas and risk'. Confident even only a week before her death that she could complete the work, all that remains are these fragments.

101 poems about power and its consequences, one for each year from the beginning of the Great War to the present day, together making a history of the past century. All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015, this includes poetry by (among others) Carmen Bugan, Claire Crowther, Clayton Eshleman, Lee Harwood, Helen Moore, Peter Riley, Donna Stonecipher, Janet Sutherland, Philip Terry, Helen Tookey and Tamar Yoseloff, and translations of Jaccottet, Mandelstam, Winett de Rokha and Tsvetaeva.

This is a memoir of the Portuguese poet, Alberto de Lacerda, an almost legendary figure in expatriate circles. Lacerda lived for many years in London, with sojourns also in the USA, but he always returned to his adopted city. A fine poet, Lacerda had a talent for friendship, which is amply borne out by the author's touching memoir of his friend.

Will Stone was named a 'European-leaning maverick' by Hugo Williams in the TLS, which may explain why his remarkable voice was unjustly neglected until this volume first appeared. Stone's poems have a visionary edge to them, replete as they are with a powerful imagery both sublime and unsettling.

Smoke Rising is a documentary poem. Very much in the tradition of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, it utilises oral sources to capture the speech - and perhaps the experience - of those who suffered the London Blitz.

The poems translated here were written between the 7th and 12th centuries AD, making them the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Latin, which arrived with Christianity in the 5th century and brought a script, was the only other language in play, although there are occasional loanwords from Norse and other tongues.

These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the Roman ruins of Provence - historic realities which are unpalatable and to which our current society, despite the indulgence of drawing on a vast intellectual and historical warehouse, is unable to properly determine or clarify.

"Anthony Caleshu's Victor is a wild ride, an arctic adventure, a spirited quest narrative, a mad love poem to the imagination in all its unstrung wild joys. The exuberance of address in this poem is contagious, at once zany and intimate, descriptive and lyric, it's pedal to the metal and won't let up." -Peter Gizzi

"Merle Bachman's Blood Party is a remarkable memoir, told in fragments, interruptions-in ways that prohibit any fixed retelling. In it, the impossibility of telling becomes the story: of ancestry, family, and a mother's silence, pieced-together in a poetry that is always vibrating yet never arrives." -Kristin Prevallet

"The word 'spiritual' is, in this volume, ripped away from the New Age and returned to its sources in Kabbalah and early Christian (gnostic) writings. But it carries with it the world as we have it now. A heap of horrors, remnants, a sense of the feminine under assault, and the drive to love." (Fanny Howe)

Here, for the first time in English, is a selection of work 'in the manner of Cavafy' by poets writing in Cavafy's own language, Greek. Together they embed the intimacy of shared culture, skilfully mirroring passions and preoccupations.

Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose. Her recent work also appears in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015).

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet now living in the UK. He is the author of several books and is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University in London.

Claus von Rosen wurde in eine der Baltischen Rittterschaften hineingeboren, die deutschsprachige, grundbesitzende Adels-Gesellschaft der baltischen Staaten, die damals ein Teil des Russischen Reiches waren. Dieses Buch enthalt seine Memoiren und gewahrt dem Leser einen kurzen Einblick in eine heute fast vergessene-eine fast unbekannte-Welt.

A follow-up to Harriet Tarlo's 2004 collection, Poems 1994-2003, this volume is a major survey of the author's more recent work.

Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems, this volume also includes a number of Economou's own uncollected poems and translations, giving us a picture of both poet and translator, as well as a shadowy image of Cavafy himself, in the form of versions of the master's uncompleted poems.

Watersong begins with the first of the great cholera epidemics of 19th Century England. Focussing on the poet's home city of Exeter, the poems interlace select details from Exeter's 1832 cholera outbreak, in which over 400 people died, with imagined narratives of the epidemic, and other related episodes in the city, factual and invented.