Secondhand Poetry Books

A fantastic Christmas present for Neil Gaiman super fans** AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 NEWS **Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the...

Charles Darwin lost his mother at the age of eight, repressed all memory of her, and poured his passion into newt collecting and shooting. As a young man, his five...

Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. It won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, for which the judges were W....

In this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems...

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...

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as...

Personal reflections, poems and prayers as response to the wonder of spring One of the best-loved spiritual writers of recent years, much of the inspiration for David Adam's writing comes...

Ireland is a country rich and deep in Literary heritage. But it is in poetry that the full breath and depth of that heritage has been best explored. "A Treasury...

Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.Translated by Frank O'ConnorIllustrations by Brian Bourke.

The textured language, vivid imagery and musical rhythms of Jane Clarke's debut collection convey a distinctive voice and vision. With lyrical grace these poems contemplate shadow and sorrow as well...

Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse is Volume 1 of a satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow. Chronicling the last few raucous years in...

Scott Walker is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant, serious and intelligent of artists today. As one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century and front man of globally...

Fast Talking PI reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed...