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Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of...

Following their award-winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's...

This new collection from one of Ireland's leading writers is a book of wonderings and wanderings, meditating on cultural boundaries, the persistent horrors of war, lost friends and light.

Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us.Bernard O'Donoghue investigates anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story....

Represented in all modern anthologies by his great poem on Irish history "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", Derek Mahon is regarded with Heaney and Longley as the leader of...

'This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet. Daniel Mendelsohn's rendering of Homer's text is both highly readable and faithful to the original metre. It's impressive, thrilling stuff......

Michael Schmidt's anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem,...

Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy...

A sequel to Philip Terry's Dante's Inferno (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex...

'There is an honesty that is both heart-breaking and more hopeful than anything else I've read on this subject. She makes me weep and wonder in equal measure' Hollie McNishEloquent...

Edited now for the first time by Duncan Wu, it provides students and general readers alike with an approachable introduction to Wordsworth's greatest work.

A new poetry collection, at the age of 88, by a writer who first became interested in writing in the 1940s and 1950s when she met famous Irish writers Peig...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'Allen Ginsberg's...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksYes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure.In this...

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very...

Babysnatching is one thing but Babyswapping? Inspector Wexford had not previously encountered the phenomenon of one ginger haired baby in its pram being swapped for another of the opposite sex....

Provocative and tender, passionate yet wary, the highly charged poems in Helen Farish's first collection testify to the complex nature of relationships with lovers, with family and with the self....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I am Black because I come from the earth's insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned and profound,...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always whenYour glance in secrecy met mine,And in my face your love was likeA visibly reflected sign.From the greatest...

Poems to celebrate summer.Pour out a long drink, take a seat under a shady tree, and lose yourself in this sublime collection of nature poems for summer. From William Shakespeare...

WINNER of the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry Collection'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection....

Selections from the work of Padraic H. Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, and Joseph M. Plunkett all of whom were signers of the Irish Republican Proclamation and all of whom were executed...

Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of...

Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in...

In "Paradise Lost", Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic...

This is the second edition of the "Norton Critical Edition" of Milton's "Paradise Lost". It represents an extensive revision of the first edition. The text of the poem remains that...

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...

The marcabre and haunting elements of Poe's poetry have always intrigued. His poetry is a voyage into a world beyond normal consciousness, an exploration into a world beyond our waking...

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...

First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic...

Funded by Arts Council England, the Faber New Poets programme is an exciting new venture whose aim is to create a culture of support for select new poets at pre-first...

Funded by Arts Council England, the Faber New Poets programme is an exciting new venture whose aim is to create a culture of support for select new poets at pre-first...

Song an 'arrogant little tool,' that was Migdale. All five foot four of him. Always scratching his head and looking pained and adjusting himself. The last time I saw him,...