Anonymous & Jonathan Alexander 
John Tzetzes’ Chiliades in English 

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical …

The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be …

'He's a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.' Hermione Lee, Guardian Fast Music refers as …

Anglo-Saxon England (1979) takes the history and archaeology of Britain from the fifth century AD through to 1066, covering perhaps the most enigmatic period in British history, when post-Roman, …

**WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARD** This searingly powerful first collection about Ukrainian identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant counter-song against totalitarianism ”A beautiful, necessary …

How do we love, trust and create in the aftermath of trauma? How do we name and speak that love?In this powerful new collection from acclaimed poet and novelist Elaine Feeney, images andmemory circle …

Climate change, the cost-of-living crisis; corporate greed, insomnia and mortality – yes, they all feature here, delicately interwoven with joyful poems celebrating love, family, food, basking lizard …

This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in …

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an …

This volume offers for the first time in any language a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735 804), numbering some 339 individual pieces and nearly 7, 000 lines. An introduction …