Poetry Book Society

The Raw Garden was a Poetry Book Society Choice.

Critics applauded the pure and chiselled images in this first collection of poems to appear after a gap of thirteen years. The book was a Poetry Book Society choice.

Two poems in this volume, The dream-life of priests and Sisters leaving before the dance, won individual awards at poetry competitions at Cardiff and Cheltenham. The volume received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Kathryn Gray , reviewing this collection in Mslexia, noted Padel's readiness to break the rules, and found her usually on the right side of the fine line separating the sublime from the ridiculous.

It was also a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

SH 's mother was delighted at her success, but nonetheless afraid of the events of her life becoming public: after this Hill began to carefully code her poems to evade biographical criticism. This book...

HD became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Glamorgan in 1998. In 1996 she became a judging member of the T...

This book was another Poetry Book Society Recommendation. On its cover Michèle Roberts is quoted writing in Time Out that SH evokes the inner childhood world we're supposed to give up as we become...

This volume won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

This book was a Poetry Book Society Choice.David Profumo in the Sunday Times praised the collaboration as [q]uirky and riddling and fleet of foot.John Kerrigan in the London Review of Books...

According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB , however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led...

This book was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Alan Brownjohn called it MW 's best book to date, combining erudition and passion as poet, musician and scholar in a collection that . . . continually...

This book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

Reviews were again highly favourable, and this book too was a Poetry Book Society choice. Caroline L. Cherry has written that here traditional forms and meters, paradoxes, dazzling wordplay, and complexities are tempered with a...

The Carcanet edition was a Poetry Book Society Choice.Jody Allen Randolph named three poems here (The Journey, Mise Eire, and The Oral Tradition) as defining landmarks of late twentieth-century Irish...