Secondhand Poetry Books

This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic...

A celebrated winner of fiction's Orange Prize, Helen Dunmore is as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her novels. "Glad of These Times" is full of haunting, joyous...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Winner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'A beautiful, vigorous...

Keylines was initially broadcast by the author as A Living Word on Ireland's Radio 1. In response to numerous requests from listeners, it was published in hardback in 2000 ....

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.

The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation...

"I feel like this is a love letter of sortsfrom Millar to all those classic pulp stories. I'm glad he shared it with all ofus." -- Kirkus"It'ssentimental and honest, romantic...

Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the...

A regular on Radio 4, he had been described by the Observer as the funniest, quirkiest, sharpest poet, comedian and broadcaster in the business. Born in Yorkshire in 1956, he...

In his latest collection, "Globe", Micheal O'Siadhail explores how a world is shaped. How do the past and our memories bear on the present? What kind of people help to...

Julie O'Callaghan observes life with a sharp wit and a wicked gift for mimicry. Her characters vent strong feelings and betray revealing weaknesses in their own colourful words. What's What...

NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone. It is 00:00...

Attracta Fahy writes the true poetry of the soul. From the depths of her intuitive self her poems speak to us of the archetypes of the collective unconscious. Whether we...

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...

Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad...

A delightful, wide-ranging anthology about England and the English over the centuries - songs, poems, hymns, letters and prose - this compendium is entertaining, witty, lyrical and heart-warming.With contributions from...

In this second volume following "The Language of Flowers", the focus is on wild flowers of the countryside. The book interweaves classic verse and prose, with descriptive notes on the...

Poems from the Film Il PostinoThe poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the...

"A to B" began as a poem about a journey: it became a journey in itself, a collection that travels through emotions and places, unfolding to the rhythms of discovery...