The first book in the Re/verse series, Love’s True Object is a new account of Spenser’s conversational, comic theory of marriage in his sonnet sequence, Amoretti.
Ethiopian–Eritrean sacred Qǝne poetry presented in accessible paired English translations revealing multilayered meanings.
Examining the work of Irish poet Austin Clarke (1896-1974) in the light of modern critical and theoretical perspectives, Kit Fryatt focuses on key works which reveal how Clarke explored themes on the coherence of the personality, women and repression.
A deep dive into the personal archive of American poet Elizabeth Bishop that puts archival and literary theory in conversation with liberal arts pedagogy
Conversations with Scottish Poets presents 14 interviews conducted by Marco Fazzini. The interviews provide insight into the ideas and working methods of the individual Scottish poets.
This is the first monograph wholly devoted to the poetry of Northern Irish Poet Medbh McGuckian and it argues that her work self-reflexively presents a deeply felt belief in the primacy (and efficacy) of poetry in the modern world.
Sorley MacLean (1911-1996), the greatest Scottish Gaelic poet of the 20th Century, is examined through in-depth case studies of his individual poems and groups of poems. The book raises questions about translation and cultural ownership in modern Scotland