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Carducci's poems in the metres of Latin verse, on Roman ruins, Italian landscapes and the passing of time.
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Cuttlefish Bones
Montale's first book of poems, of the harsh, sunlit Ligurian coast he grew up on and the search for a way out of a closed world.
Complete Poems
Quasimodo's poems from the hermetic lyrics of his Sicilian youth to the poems of war and Liberation that made his name.
District and Circle
Late poems that move between the farm and forge of Heaney's childhood and the London Underground, with translations and prose poems.
Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
Thirty years of Heaney's poems, from Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level, with his Nobel lecture.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
All of Tranströmer's poems, half a century of short, luminous pieces about nature, music, dreams and the border between waking and sleep.
A Longing for the Light
Selected poems from across Aleixandre's life, from the surrealist love poems of Destruction or Love to the late poems of memory and knowledge.
My Sister, Life
The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
Collected Poems
Seferis's poems, from Mythistorema to the poems of exile in the war years, in which the islands, the sea and the ruins of ancient Greece stand in for a modern country's grief.
New and Collected Poems
Seventy years of Miłosz's poems, from the Warsaw of the war years to old age in California and Kraków.
The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
A selection from across the Czech poet's work, from the playful avant-garde poems of the 1920s to the late poems of memory, love and Prague.