New And Selected Poems brings together a quarter of a century of exceptional writing.


Julian Stannard started his career as a writer in the Italian port city of Genoa. He has written at length about Liguria and Italy in general. His work has been translated into Italian and he finds his place in a rich Anglo-Ligurian tradition. This gathering of poems from many collections infuses his love of Italy with a clear-eyed view of modern Britain.


These are poems which can wrong foot and startle and bewilder. If his roots are English and Irish, his instincts are mainland European. His satirical appetite draws from Swift and Gogol and Lear. Stannard ultimately creates an unmistakable voice – the commonplace is again and again made strange and yet stranger still.