Book Review: The Complete Old English Poems
/A hefty new volume brings together all the poetry of the Old English world, wrought into modern verse.
Read MoreBook Review: Falling Ill
/From the late and much-honored poet CK Williams, one final work
Read MoreBook Review: Angelinetum and Other Poems
/Doctor and poet Giovanni Marrasio's verses receive an expert new edition from the Harvard's I Tatti Library series
Read MoreBook Review: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
/A new dual biography of poet and translator accompanies a new illustrated edition of the famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Read MoreBook Review: Waiting for the Past
/The latest volume from deceptively erudite Australian poet Les Murray
Read MoreBook Review: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
/America's Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay gets an elegant new Selected Poems volume
Read MoreBook Review: The Swimmer
/A preoccupation with endings characterizes the tenth collection from poet John Koethe
Read MoreBook Review: The Emperor of Water Clocks
/A grand and jauntily mythological new volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa
Read MoreBook Review: Apollo in the Grass
/A revelatory new volume brings to English-language readers a selection of the verses of St. Petersburg poet Aleksandr Kushner
Read MoreBook Review: Voyage of the Sable Venus
/A stunning debut volume from poet and teacher Robin Coste Lewis
Read MoreBook Review: Six Poets
/British literary icon Alan Bennett looks at six poets whose work has meant a great deal to him over the years
Read MoreBook Review: Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Major Poetry
/A thorough new study of the poetry of the great transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read MoreBook Review: Multitudinous Heart
/A sumptuous new bilingual edition of the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Read More'I'm the Top Goddess – How Could I Fail to Make Trouble?'
/Renowned classicist and historian Peter Green has at last produced a translation of the Iliad - and it comes with its own Greek Chorus. Steve Donoghue investigates.
Read MoreBook Review: On Elizabeth Bishop
/In the latest Princeton "Writers on Writers" installment, novelist Colm Toibin writes about poet Elizabeth Bishop
Read MoreThese Pictures are Themselves Little Souls
/A new reprint line from the New York Review of Books concentrates on literature from - and on - China's long literary history, and the first three volumes offer the strange, the familiar, and the beautiful.
Read MoreChangeable Camelion
/Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.
Read MoreBeyond the Pillars of Hercules
/In addition to their gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks worshiped youth and athletic prowess, and their foremost bard was Pindar.
Read MoreTen Questions for Sarah Ruden
/Sarah Ruden, the latest and greatest translator of Vergil’s Aeneid, offers a funny and fascinating glimpse inside the classicist’s world in this Open Letters interview.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Gentle Poet
/At a poetry reading on the Palatine 2,000 years ago, you’d have spent a week’s pay to hear him read. Today he’s unknown, except to our Steve Donoghue (and a few of our readers, no doubt). Here, after a long time gone, is the Roman poet Tibullus.
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