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Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria...

In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images...

The most quoted writer in English literary history, Shakespeares work continues to grip audiences and delight readers. His plays fill our theatres and have inspired countless films, most recently the...

For decades readers and critics have acclaimed Yves Bonnefoy as France's greatest living poet. His most recent book of verse, The Curved Planks , crowns an oeuvre that has won...

The Balcony is a stunning collection by one of Australia's quiet masters of poetry (Robert Adamson said of Brooks' previous collection, Urban Elegies, that it contained some of 'the best...

The response of one poet to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they...

From the topical to the hilarious, this collection encompasses the spectrum of Pam Ayres' talent. She writes with great wit and perspicacity on such topics as the pollution of the...

Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th birthday 'Nothing more lonely -'

Roger McGough made his name in The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10, published in 1967 and a bestseller ever since. Over the years, McGough has continued to delight readers...

Capturing all the pride, hope, and support a parent feels for a child who no longer lives at home, this book is a beautiful and Iasting way to cross the...

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...

Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be...

Running Upon The Wires is Kae Tempest's first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes...

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry...

Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City,...

Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City,...

100 years ago - Australia's worst peacetime land disaster: The Mount Kembla Coal Mine above Wollongong explodes. 96 men and boys are lost. In Kembla The Book of Voices Conal...

The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they...

Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today...

"To All Ingeniously Elaborate Students, In the most Divine Mysteries of Hermetique Learning." Or so British politician and Freemason ELIAS ASHMOLE (1617-1692) dedicated this curious artifact of the esoteric and...

From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity....

This freshly edited anthology includes all but one of the longer poems, from "Queen Mab" onwards, in their entirety. Only "Laon and Cythna" is excerpted, in a generous selection. As...

This translation of Dante's Inferno aims to preserve Dante's natural style while capturing the movement of the original Italian verse. The blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the...

Only widely-available edition of Khayyam's lyrical poetry Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short...

Parents are always searching for a personal way to express the love, pride, and hopes they hold in their hearts for their daughters. This very special collection of contemporary poems...

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was one of the most important poets of our time. This was is his own selection taken from six collections first published in hardback by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon...

"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical...

This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu . In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a...

Prior to her stunning debut novel, Fugitive Pieces , Anne Michaels had already won prizes and acclaim for her two poetry collections. The Weight of Oranges and Miner ' s...

Edward Thomas wrote most of his poems during active service in World War 1 - poems which search for the true self, and affirm the oneness of all experience.

" Fire to Fire should solidify Doty's position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the...

This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form...

This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form...

In this collection of poetry, Galloway uses the biblical image of the valley of dry bones to describe the task of presenting faith anew in every generation and to each...

Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact they can have on the relationships you build with others. And...

Planets, stars, and constellations feature prominently in this beautiful, original poetry collection from Lang Leav. Inspired by the wonders of the universe, the best-selling poetess writes about love and loss,...

This magnificently decorated edition presents Edgar Allan Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry. Featuring such immortal works as "The Raven" and "The Bells,"...

The heart asks pleasure first,And then, excuse from pain;And then, those little anodynesThat deaden suffering;And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should beThe will of its Inquisitor,The...

Altdorf's earliest poems, written during military service and as a prisoner of war, reflected on nature, poetry and art. Beginning a new life, post-war, as an artist, Altdorf explored how...

From the groundbreaking Bicycle and Other Poems to the best-selling Typewriter Music, Revolving Days is a resplendent, up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with...