POETRY

The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean...

This beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffy's much-celebrated festive poems.For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of...

Pattern-book is a collection about grief, time, art, friendship, and the ways that language can and can't hold what we lose.

'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early...

A handy poetry companion to keep around in times of difficulty.This supportive anthology of 100 specially chosen poems is here to help. Whatever the shape of your struggle, there's a...

Jorge Guillen belongs to a brilliant cluster of Spanish poets, a generation once defined by Salinas, one of its members, as "born under a lyrical star". Towards the end of...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.This edition of Homer's epic, Iliad, is from the Alexander Pope Translation, tells the story of the final year of the Trojan War. First written...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Under bare Ben Bulben's headIn Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.An ancestor was rector thereLong years ago, a church stands near,By the road...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But...

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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOne of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.' As a child growing up...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In black ink my love may still shine bright...' Universally admired and quoted, Shakespeare's Sonnets have love, beauty...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Instead of the cross, the AlbatrossAbout my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a stricken ship out...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA...

'This was pure joy to read and left me feeling warm inside!!' 'This book pulled at my heart strings and broke me in places and then slowly pieced me back...

Thomas Kinsella stands apart in modern Irish poetry. His work, employing traditional and modernist elements in individual poems and open sequences, deals in a range of subjects from the most...

With an Introduction by Paul Wright.'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his...

Every Night is a Full of Stars: More Meaningful Poems for Life is a beautiful collection of poetry chosen by Aoibhin Garrihy to bring solace and joy to our stressful...

American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is...

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the...

A collection of the very best of Paul Cookson's poetry bound up in one fantastic volume. Paul Cookson is a highly talented poet whose poems have been widely anthologised, but...

'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection...

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded...

Nick Laird's powerful new collection reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems and the banalities and distortions of modern life,...

Throughout history, legend and myth, the sea has symbolized power and freedom, strength and serenity and has inspired poets, philosophers, astronomers and artists. Reflections upon the sea from literature, philosophy,...

One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. The 5th edition...

A funny collection of football poems by Brian Bilston, the unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter. Perfect for football fans of all ages - from the young footie fanatic to a...

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood - a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary...

Embrace a unique journey as The Wandering Paddy shares his thoughts and experiences on the challenges we all face, on mental health, and on the invaluable life lessons he has...