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COVID-19 has fractured society and dislocated lives, forcing us to work differently, question ingrained assumptions, and appreciate relationships precisely because we've been masked and socially distanced. In his new book...

The 16th century Spanish Carmelite monk, St. John of the Cross, is not only one of the greatest of all Christian mystics. He is also considered by many to be...

Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Book Prize for Ecological Writing 2021 A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her...

Spiritlands invites you into a territory that is at once individual and plural. On the one hand, this is poetry about a personal geography, an eclectic landscape, space in which...

A collection of poetry and wood cuts that burns blindingly bright. The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved...

In celebration of the American poet's centennial, Ask Me collects 100 of William Stafford's essential poems together in one title. As a conscientious objector during World War II, whilst assigned...

Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. As usual it is impossible to summarise in terms of theme, as his interests are...

Poetry is written to encourage the reader to visualize a story and explore emotions. Sometimes dark, often with a twist of humor, the reader can be transported into a world...

Trap Landscape charts a course, trick-riding through poetic topography. From cubist paddocks approaching Paris, past council roadworks, and on to the terraced slopes of Hvar, Nicholas Powell surveys the sacred...

Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from...

Writing apart from the mainstream of nineteenth-century poetry Emily Dickinson created a language of her own, and her work is both very varied and very consistent in its strength and...

Jackie Kay brings her poetry to Picador with a brilliant new collection that crosses borders Jackie Kay's latest collection is inspired by the journey she undertook to write her memoir,...

Each text in its own way invites reflection and meditation. The theme running through the pieces is love - a love that is coloured with both tears and smiles. Gibran's...

Coming Home to Her is a celebration of being human. It is a coming out journey, an exploration of sexuality, femininity, loving, and being loved. _____________________ "This book reads as...

'Elegant and heartaching, these poems illuminate the sorrows of life with a bright flame, returning us to that miraculous human capacity for love and faith even in our darkest days.'...

A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author. AUTHOR:...

"I have come to have a feeling, almost a superstition, that it is a kind of obligation laid upon me to testify for Rudyard Kipling whenever the opportunity presents itself",...

PETRARCH FOR THE MODERN EAR, by the translator of a Dante edition that 'ranks with the very best available in English'. Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (translated in English as 'Scattered Rhymes')...

This verse autobiography relates the story of the author's younger days set against the places and buildings that were significant in his youth - Highgate, Cornwall, Chelsea, Marlborough, Oxford quads,...

As we enter a new millennium ruled by technology, will poetry still matter? The Song of the Earth answers eloquently in the affirmative. A book about our growing alienation from...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet...

In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico-and directly from the Greek myth itself-Rita Dove explores this relationship...

A stunning new edition of this essential collection from the bush balladeer A stunning collection from one of Australia's favourite poets.Readers have long embraced the passionate energy of Henry Lawson's...

With fifty new poems from Britain s favourite poet Pam Ayres, New Poetry Collection is a treat. From wishing your husband was more dashing to becoming a gran for the...

Poetry. After 10 years, Michael Rothenberg is revisiting Paris, by himself, for 28 days. In this unique poetry journal, Rothenberg reflects daily on his trip, in the tradition of the...

M.M.Kaye, author of "The Far Pavilions", demonstrates in her foreword that Rudyard Kipling could seek no more convinced and sympathetic an advocate than herself. She introduces us to Kipling's India...

douard Glissant's most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work - which sets out a new poetic vision for the world 'We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we...

Dorothea Mackellar's anthemic poem My Country captured the heart of the Australian nation when it was first published in 1908, and the love affair has continued for a hundred years....

is Australian poet MTC Cronin's tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force, the sequence consists of one hundred poems, the line-count arcing from a single...

A new translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave Dore Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic...

By the time Hughes had published his final collection, Birthday Letters in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape.

In my house his Collected Poems is to be found, not on the poetry shelves (between Pope and Pushkin), but on the kitchen sideboard. His is a voice I value...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great English poets. Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic career only flowered...

'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it comes closer than anything in our language to the swollen red...

'Powerful, capacious and profound' OCEAN VUONG 'A book you won't soon forget' ILYA KAMINSKY 'Astonishing' TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2025...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. 'These words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary.' - Giovanna Fletcher Motherhood...

Joyous, sensuous, radical- a slim volume of Wendell Berry's best-loved poems to console and delight If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A...

Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the...