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From the internationally revered Australian poet John Kinsella comes this exceptional new collection that traces the ghosts of this country's violent and destructive history through the marks left on the...

Entering the liminal space of shared custody and societal tropes of the 'broken family', with a blend of poetry, with other forms. This new volume unravels the day-to-day reality of...

A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom...

One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer is very well-known and respected, and the author of more than 50 books of poetry and prose Unpretentious, highly accessible...

A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphoria let me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways. Rae White's much-anticipated second...

Andrew Motion's new collection offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how...

A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what...

In his new collection of poems - several of which have already become famous before their book publication - Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a...

'The Prophet', by Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) is a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Continually in print since its publication in 1923, its ongoing popularity is a continuation...

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's 'Faust' is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'we are the ones we have been waiting for' These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Collecting two of his most celebrated works - Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rumi's verses have been a balm for readers' souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books May I remember always when, Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain's most beloved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca...

"He seems tostart writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just putdown, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first...

Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a SentimentalBloke, a comic verse novel, wasfirst published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions...

One of the best-known, most often-quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Explanation of Persian names...

The poems within Oaths contain a promise made to oneself for a better future. Read with all the hope you can muster. A stunning and emotional follow-up to 2022's Serenity...

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names...

Volume 3 of Robert M. Drakes entries. This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a...

The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. "This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you...

This one-volume selection of Yeats's work includes plays, criticism, and other prose writings as well as poems. As a result it offers a perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary...

John Milton (1608-74) was celebrated in his time as a public servant of the Cromwellian regime and as the author of brilliant polemical pamphlets about education religion and freedom of...

As the success of such promotions as 'Poems on the Underground' and the BBC's 'The Nation's Favourite Poems' has proved, poetry is never far from the hearts and minds of...

Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, and the end of relationships--drive this poetry...

"Banjo" Paterson may be regarded as Australia's national poet. The apparent simplicity of the ballad form is balanced by many syllabic irregularities and ingenuity of stress and internal rhyme. His...

Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition...

An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

Having sorted out the cat world in Cat with Piano Tuna, investigated the pig universe in Pig's Ear and upset the birds in Bird Dropping, Simon Drew now chooses to...

A long awaited addition to Flame Tree's stunning hardcover collector's series, one of three stunning volumes of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text...

'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched' - Guardian A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of...

The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out...

In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, in "The Loose Canon", David Bader applies...

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn...

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clanks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a...