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

We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence...

A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' GuardianShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA...

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the...

A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' GuardianShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns...

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...

Poems and Plays brings together the contents of Oliver St John Gogarty's fifteen volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems. It also contains poems published individually in various journals and...

In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasure as natural apart from procreative justification and...

Author: Mx Eileen MylesFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 222mm, 510g, 368 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime...

Author: Wendy CopeFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 143g, 176 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012This anthology of 101 humorous poems includes work by Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, Gavin Ewart,...

Author: David HarsentFormat: Paperback, 131mm x 199mm, 110g, 80 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2002A tender and evocative exploration of marriage set against an ebullient portrayal of the shenanigans...

Author: Jamie McKendrickFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 195mm, 150g, 64 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023Jamie McKendrick connects our list to the European continent with his sensitive prizewinning translations of...

Author: Christopher ReidFormat: Hardback, 145mm x 223mm, 230g, 88 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2020The new collection of poems from Christopher Reid.Christopher Reid is the author of many books...

Author: Philip LarkinFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 955g, 688 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2022Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished:...

Author: Franny ChoiFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 144 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW...

Author: Barbara KingsolverFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 127g, 144 pagesPublished: Basic Books, United States, 2022Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who...

Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the...

Author: Holly PesterFormat: Paperback, 131mm x 197mm, 130g, 96 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2021Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working...

Author: K. F. Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Complete Apparition is an existential comedy. The Apparition is only there when perceived. Many who may evoke him, mostly...

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and...

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Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1040 Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror.The...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 516 Revel in the sumptuous language of Edgar Allan Poe's best works.The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features...

Author: Morgan Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'To read MAGICAL NEGRO it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over,...

Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...

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Author: Sarah Crossan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was...

Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Andrew Motion's expansive new collection is built around two long poems that form its opening and close. The title poem,...

Author: Douglas Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn...

Author: Douglas Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 88 The Noise of a Fly is the first new collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he...

Author: Lachlan Mackinnon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for...

Author: Frederick Seidel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet...

Author: Bernard O'Donoghue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Bernard O'Donoghue is the author of six poetry collections, including Gunpowder (1995), winner of the Whitbread/Costa prize, and Farmers Cross, which...

Author: Tom Paulin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin...

By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid...

Renaada Williams beckons readers into her deepest thoughts and most intimate experiences as a queer black woman living in America with her latest collection of poetry. Much like her first...