More than twenty unpublished poems by Chile’s late Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda were discovered among sheaves of manuscripts in boxes and will be published this year. The poems, found when the Pablo Neruda Foundation was cataloguing his manuscripts, were examined by experts and found to be authentic pieces of his work. The poems are said to display the creative genius of the nobel laureate and are full of the imaginative and expressive passion that Neruda is acclaimed for.

Six of the poems are related to the theme of love and others have different themes and date from 1956 onwards. The Madrid daily El Pais published an extract of one of the poems. It begins: “your pure hip rests and the bow of wet arrows / stretches in the night the petals that form your shape.”

The only other unpublished works of Neruda to appear after his death in September, 1973, were a 1980 collection of poems written during his youth and a 1996 collection of adolescent poems.

Seix Barral will publish the new poems in Latin America this year and in Spain in 2015, according to a report in El Pais. No English translation has yet to be announced.