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Federico García Lorca, Spain‿s greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and at the height of his creative powers. After his death, with his work suppressed, he became a potent symbol of the martyrdom of Spain. The manuscript of Lorca‿s last poems, his tormented ...

This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. Trojan Women is a wildly imaginative collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson.

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George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of identity, memory, belonging, war, and upheaval, with a sequence on living now in a country under siege from coronavirus.

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Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation'. Like his previous book from Bloodaxe, "Natural History and Other Poems" (2006), this new collection is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. It takes its title from a children's game.

. In her third collection Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present. . These visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. . Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child's sleep or a lit-up house, igniting conversations about place, time and the tender paradoxes of mortality.

. Rebecca Perry is one of Britain's most exciting young poetic talents. . Her first collection was shortlisted for the UK's most significant award for poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and for several other awards, winning the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. . Stone Fruit is a second collection in three parts relating to memory and grief, beaches and her teenage years as a competitive trampolinist.

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach, his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Ju...

This second collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. Chrissy Williams' first collection Bear (Bloodaxe) was one of The Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year in 2017.

The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain.

A major figure in American poetry, the author has always been a total outsider, defiantly unfashionable and publishing only four books in five decades. Initially associated with the Beats, he left America after winning the Yale Younger Poets Prize with "Views of Jeopardy" in 1962, eking out a living for many years on Greek islands.

An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory of her zeitgeist collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, these new poems traverse history, from the cosmic to the quotidian.

Robert Hass is a major American poet of world stature. This is the first book of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 20 years, and the first selected edition of his work, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

. Now in her mid-80s, Fleur Adcock has become over six decades one of the major figures in poetry in both the UK, where she has lived since 1969, as well as in her native New Zealand. . Her national honours include receiving an OBE in 1996, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006, both presented by H.M. the Queen, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry presented to her in 2019 by the Rt Hon Jacinda Arde...