James K. Baxter (1926-1972) is one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable poets, yet he ...

'The true haunts of the poetic powers,' Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) wrote to his friend Matthe...

Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) is one of the best loved Australian poets of the twentieth century - and...

'Nonsense', wrote Mervyn Peake, 'can take you by the hand and lead you nowhere. It's magic.' Peak...

C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a gener...

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) began writing poetry as a devotee of Blake, Shelley, the pre-Raphaelites, ...

P.J. Kavanagh's 1982 edition of the Collected Poems established Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) as one of...

First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of cr...

The great unshackling of women's voices in poetry has one of its beginnings right here. These sad...

The Border Ballads are rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotla...

Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in Th...

Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world rea...