Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorJohn Ashbery Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self portrait, has become Ashbery's best known poem. It is accompanied here by a number of shorter pieces playful, witty, elusive. The collection remains one of the most significant poetic achievements of our time.

Gripping and singularly anachronistic

In Sawako Nakayasu’s Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of “girls” is deployed as poetic form

Jack Spicer (ed

she expanded the work into a full-length book

although he never managed to complete his degree

Johannes Göransson's translation captures the seething instability of Berg's bizarre compound nouns and linguistic contortions

Die horen bij het leven

revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era

David Melnick's Nice: Collected Poems spans twenty crucial years of gay life and experimentation with poetic form

In so doing

By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present

and the uncomfortable