humanity and our environment
Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects
the ordinary and the metaphysical
We are fortunate to have these selections from five of his books and also new poems
Carol Ann Duffy’s much-celebrated festive poems
Liquid Sand by Jorge Valdés, trans. Sue Burke & Christian Law-Palacín Will Burns humanity and our environmentPublished 1st November 2025. Jorge Valdes Diaz Velez was born in Torreon, Mexico, in 1955. He is considered by critics as one of the foremost contemporary poets of Ibero Amrica. His work is crossed by universal references that are transformed and enriched thanks to the author's voice: the four elements, the coordinates of space and time, nostalgia and hope, remembering and forgetting, music and silence, certainties, losses, distances, love and