Poetry. Volume 3 of Berengarten's Selected Writings. THE BLUE BUTTERFLY has two points of departure. The first is a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. On October 21st, 1941, seven thousand men and boys from Kragujevac, a town in central Serbia, were marched out to the nearby hills and gunned down. The poet Richard Berengarten visited the site of this atrocity, on May 25th, 1985. As he was queuing to enter the memorial museum, a blue butterfly descended onto the forefinger of his writing hand.

This extraordinary and powerful book takes off from these two episodes. The title...

The action of this book-length poem unfurls in the public and private worlds of corporate man. The Manager is a poet's response to challenges thrown down by T.S. Eliot more than eighty years ago in The Waste Land. Its ground is identity, sexuality and vision. Its occupation is mind, heart and spirit. This revised edition of The Manager is the second volume in the ongoing series of Richard Berengarten's Selected Writings. Richard Berengarten used to be known as Richard Burns. With the inital publication of this series of books, he repossessed the family name of his father, the cellist and...

Poetry. Volume 4 of Berengarten's Selected Writings. Set in the crumbling ruins of Yugoslavia, IN A TIME OF DROUGHT explores the images and realities of war, destruction and dictatorship, and of fertility, nurture and peace. The key figure is the Balkan rain maiden. This gypsy or peasant girl takes on an ancient mythological authority and a wholly modern moral presence. In the wake of waste and war she is the incarnation of hope and renewal.

IN A TIME OF DROUGHT has received the international Morava Charter Award. It forms the second part of Richard Berengarten's Balkan...

Poetry. Volume 5 of Berengarten's Selected Writings. Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, UNDER BALKAN LIGHT presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honors dignity and courage. The book starts with a tour-de-force, the long poem "Do vidjenje Danitse" ("Goodbye Balkan Belle"), and continues with a series of memorial tablets for victims of Jasenovac concentration camp. The book includes a sequence in memory of the Serbian, Yugoslav and Mediterranean poet, Ivan V. Lalic. UNDER BALKAN LIGHT forms the final part of...

Manual, the sixth volume in the ongoing series of Richard Berengarten's Selected Writings, is an ambitious work-in-progress, a single poem, whose central theme is human hands. This present collation is divided into five sequences and subdivided into one hundred small poems, with two frame-pieces at the start and end. Numerological patterning, an articulated feature of much of Berengarten's writing, occurs in each poem's formal structure: ten lines, ten fingers; two stanzas, two hands.

A tokonoma is an alcove in a traditional Japanese house, which serves to display a scroll, ikebana or a special painting or print. It is also a kind of code-word in neo-baroque Hispanic writing, having been much used by the movement's founder and inspiration, Cuban poet Jose Lezama Lima. Here the tokonoma is part of Jose Kozer's linguistic armoury: another Cuban poet, but this time one in exile in the USA and, by common consent, the doyen of the current Hispanic neo-baroque. Here Kozer engages with Japanese and Chinese poetry, learning, myth and much more besides. This is Kozer's second...

Here, for the first time in English, is a selection of work 'in the manner of Cavafy' by poets writing in Cavafy's own language, Greek. Together they embed the intimacy of shared culture, skilfully mirroring passions and preoccupations.