Non-Fiction

There is a young fellow named MickWho's adapted the old limerickTo cover, with mirthThe whole history of EarthAnd what made its characters tick.These 100 lively and humorous limericks take us...

Zen poetry is poetry of the senses, using simple yet powerful language to capture an intensely human moment. This wonderful anthology features a wide array of renowned contemporary and traditional...

Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds...

WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023What does it mean to have heritage, and how do we perform or undo it?In these daring and sonorous poems, Anaxagorou conducts a researched...

A collection of 200 of Aesop's fables chosen and translated from the thousand that exist, including some of the best known and less familiar. Fables are a potent force in...

A Poetry Book Society RecommendationDean Browne arrives at the After Party with the maturity and style of an altogether more seasoned poet. In a debut collection of standout and stand-alone...

Jessica Traynor's New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships...

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems for Little Ones is a celebration of that. This edition features an introduction by acclaimed children's writer...

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual...

In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra", stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself...

Winner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald...

'A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need' The Times Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son...

Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated...

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man-available for the first time in the United States "i am one of those hopeless...

The Lion Bridge, Selected Poems 1972-1995 offers for the first time a comprehensive view of Michael Palmer's extraordinary poetry. Dense and haunting, analytic and lyrical, classical and profoundly avant-garde, Palmer's...

The poetry of Rupert Brooke remains memorable for its charming lyrical quality and the way in which his sonnets perfectly recapture the mood of England at the start of World...

Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the thirties by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral starring Hugh Grant and...

Shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers' WeekThrough four highly acclaimed collections, Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of...

As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher...