Poetry & Plays

Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...

Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...

Author: Michel Faber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife,...

Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A wonderful bedside companion on a winter's evening to enjoy our place in nature, even on a cold wintery night,...

Author: Ted Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 197 Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets...

Author: Gjertrud Schnackenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg, whom William Logan once called the most talented American poet under the age of forty, published her...

Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.

Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...

Author, Tess Guinery Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 224 This romantic fusion of art - poetry, prose, and unbridled creativity - was birthed from one soul's season of...

Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...

Author: Eliza Griswold Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Because my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart. Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian...

Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 107 Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the...

Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. I mean the truth untold, The pity...

Author: Wang Wei Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Strikingly contemporary-feeling poems about Buddhism and luxury from Wang Wei, one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature Wang...

Author: Eugenio Montale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 793 Hailed as one of the key poets of the modern era, Eugenio Montale changed Italian poetry forever and helped to create...

Author: Derek Walcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work....

Author: John Earle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium AD, Beowulf is an Old English...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...

Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...

Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...

Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...

Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...

Author: Noor Unnahar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artist An all-new illustrated poetry collection from...

Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." --The Times Literary Supplement Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers...

Author: S.S. Stanton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In this classic anthology of French drama, Stephen S. Stanton has assembled the nineteenth century's finest "well-made plays": The Glass of...

Author: Angus D. Birditt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'They rise together in shoal of one. From shore of isle or coastal town, For these are our fishers of...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Shakespeare's most popular play is a story of magic and misunderstanding. Fairies and humans meet, fight and fall in...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice''Medea', in which...

Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...

Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 In The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Margaret Atwood rubs shoulders with Claudia Rankine; Lu Xun and Rabindranath...

Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...

Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of...

Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Just as moving and endearing as Peppernell's previous books, I Hope You Stay is a reminder of the resilience...

Author: Akif Kichloo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed...

Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This story is for you. This story is a piece of you. This story is about how you emerged, stronger, brighter,...

Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...

Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also...

Author: Rupi Kaur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 226 This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is...

Author: Tarriona Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak....

Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it...

Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of...

Author: Christina G. Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The poems selected in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, showing her to be one...

Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...

Author: Samuel Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy....

Author: Komal Kapoor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 After prolific growth on social media, Komal Kapoor is utilizing her perceptive understanding of romance in the digital age to present...