Poems

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This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America’s greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. The poems that make up Bishop’s body of work display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape — from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived — and move inexorably toward the interior, exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos. This new edition, edited by Saskia Hamilton, includes Bishop’s four published volumes (North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III), as well as uncollected poems and translations. It also contains a fascinating selection of unpublished manuscript poems, reproduced in facsimile, revealing exactly how finished, or unfinished, Bishop left them. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century.

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Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911, and settled eventually in Brazil. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize (1956). She died in 1979.