POETRY

'Powerful... Intense and unforgettable' MAX PORTER'I'm blown away... An astonishing work' AMY KEY'Amazing... Truly a feat' RAYMOND ANTROBUS'Devastating, sharp with skilfully wrought language, this book is an ambitious leap into...

A collection of life-affirming poems to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Poems to Live By and learn which verses can be dispensed to lift your spirits.A brilliant new...

Two classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable corruption by a harsh and unjust world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in...

It is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry, but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the...

'These poems put the Lake District at the heart of the English literary imagination.' James RebanksWilliam Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and Charles Lamb - the English...

Nerys Williams deftly employs modernist techniques in her innovative new collection of poems, Sound Archives. The reader is enticed by hints and clues, by tone and rhythm, by fragment and...

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel, Nightwood is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret until now. This selection,...

Songs Of A Sourdough" is Robert Service at his best!. This is nature poetry at its finest. Here the Bard Of The Yukon use picture words that place the reader...

LONGLISTED FOR THE LAUREL PRIZEGod Complex is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of progressive...

'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us'Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German....

This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Hate will be counterbalanced by Poems of Love-a collection of traditional love poems-which is publishing simultaneously.

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with...

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with...

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with...

Spike Milligan's Hidden Words: Collected Poems is an emotional, surprising collection of tender(ish) moments.The complete poems of Spike Milligan, Hidden Words consists of three individual volumes now collected together (SMALL...

Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone. In a sequence of...

Transformation is the underlying theme of Sujata Bhatt's new collection, the title deriving from a mystical being with skin that is 'pure lizard'. The natural world is ever present in...

A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings.

Sunday Times BestsellerThe brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres.With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new...

Dynamic, diverse, lively poetry for children that brings together the voices of black writers from Britain, Africa, America, Asia and the Caribbean, brought together by top British writer and poet...

Taking the death of Yeats as its starting point and ending at the present day, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work of...

In No More Time, Greg Delanty offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, "A Field Guide...

A powerful debut compelled by questions of borders and displacement.In one story I stay in that city forever,in one I board, and in another I am still waiting.I am daybreak;...

In Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides, we see the world through the melancholic eyes of Heart - blood-pumping organ, lover, poet and sceptical philosopher of the everyday. Heart reflects...

WITH THESE HANDS is a collection of the very best poems and sketches from one of Britain's best loved entertainers - now starring in her own BBC Radio 2 Sunday...

The poetry in Poems for Gardeners is inspired by the ever popular pastime of gardening and being in nature. Whether it's a gift for a keen gardener in your life,...

Leontia Flynn is one of the key poets of her generation. This first selection of her work reveals how her poetry, so often pained, funny, and heartfelt, also describes a...