For this edition of cummings's work, George Firmage referred to the poet's manuscripts to ensure the accuracy of the transcriptions. This book includes the poems from volumes published during cummings's lifetime and the hitherto uncollected poems, as well as the unpublished poems issued in 1983.

With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963.

Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history of the city. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love.

In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster.

A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.