A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.

"Like the Auden who was, no less than Lowell, his champion, Brodsky is a master of traditional forms." - The New York Times Book Review

'Less Than One' is Joseph Brodsky's penetrating appreciation of his favourite writers. It also includes evocations of his early life, profound reflections on tyranny and the nature of Evil, and illuminating meditations on Leningrad and Istanbul.

Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, visited Venice many times, usually in winter. In 48 short chapters, Watermark provides an account of his experiences of the city.

'On Grief and Reason' brings together the essays Brodsky has written since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.

'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book Review Self-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, the poems in this volume unfold the project that, as Brodsky saw it, the condition of exile presented: 'to set the next man - however theoretical he and his needs may be - a bit more free.' This edition includes poems translated by Derek...