Secondhand Poetry Books

'For there is always lightIf only we're brave enough to be it.If only we're brave enough to see it.'**Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller**'I was profoundly moved... The power...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale....

Jackie Kay's "The Lamplighter" takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. It is both a radio and stage play and a multi-layered epic poem. This edition...

The second edition of this popular anthology reveals the rich variety of poetry produced in the period 1700-1800. It is the new edition of this popular anthology of eighteenth-century poetry....

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...

Exquisitely crafted, these are poems about love, history and landscape that transport us with breathtaking imagery to the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. 'The way his novels are truly poetic,...

Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems is a rich and varied treasury which includes not only the famous, best-loved poems you would expect to find - and all the famous...

"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...

Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language is a national institution and probably the most famous poetry anthology ever compiled. This new edition,...

This is a story-book in verse, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly,...

Kenneth Baker's new anthology surveys one of mankind's oldest activities, warfare, through the eyes of the poets who have participated in, witnessed, celebrated and deplored it. From Homer's epic treatment...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year history is what we call / what might have happened differently /...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEEA hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and...

There are so many kinds of awful men -One can't avoid them all. She often saidShe'd never make the same mistake again:She always made a new mistake instead.(from 'Rondeau Redouble')When...

These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty - give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the...