Modern and Contemporary Poetry

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems"the bees aren't going to go awaybut...

From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of music     In this collection of all new poems,...

Award-winning world first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author's life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardback boxed set. J.R.R. Tolkien...

The smart, sassy coming-of-age story from the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other - now a Penguin Essential Meet Zuleika- sassy girl about town, former child bride, A-list Roman...

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,...

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and...

It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. This heritage edition restores Berthold Wolpe's iconic jacket and reproduces the original distinctive typesetting in celebration of the enduring importance of...

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...

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...

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: Paul Muldoon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Frolic and Detour is a book that is at once engaged and engaging, woven with subtle threads of history and geography...

This beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffy's much-celebrated festive poems.For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of...

' Hannah's words are quite literally alive with beauty and honesty .' Jessica Urlichs, Sunday Times bestselling author of Beautiful Chaos ' Beautiful, simple, magical. " - Viv Groskop, bestselling...

"We all have a stage, but what happens when the lights go out?" - A poetic exploration of the masks we wear, and the truth that lies beneath. Burning The...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An...

A poetic celebration embracing our unfinished, imperfect, and authentic selves. The Never Was is a deeply personal return from bestselling poet Tyler Knott Gregson. Known for his intimate typewritten verse,...

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. In...

Author: Will Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a...

Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers. The Shield...

Publishing as a standalone collection for the first time, and featuring new, never-before-published poems There will come a time where everything falls apart around you and somehow you are still...

Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection...

Poetry of the Zodiac is a fun and enlightening collection that takes you on a journey around the different signs of the zodiac wheel. Accompanied with beautiful illustrations, this book...

This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by...

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature. The poems included in this...

In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current...

A cast of 'Indic-heritage poets' meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry. indiom engages eclectic, often Rabelaisian styles on subjects as various as the Indian poet Nissim...

A collection of 100 upbeat, empowering and encouraging poems aimed at anyone who is looking for a boost of confidence. This collection of 100 poems is here to be your...

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 widely revered collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet, publishing in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the...

Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was...

It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of...

After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I . Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the...

'Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favourite new writers. If you want to feel seen and deeply moved, read Good Grief . Let the power of her writing...

'Davoudian is an enchanting and intriguing new voice' Sunday Times 'In this formally radical debut, Armen Davoudian shows how rhyme enacts longing for a homeland left behind; how meter sings...

The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most...

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his...

With an introduction from two-times Miles Franklin Award-winning author Kim Scott, Black Life honours Aboriginal heritage through its rich traditions and poignant reflections. From award-winning playwright, author and activist Jack...

An impressive and though-provoking collection from GRAMMY nominated artist and poet Courtney Marie Andrews. With the same vulnerability and timelessness as her debut collection Old Monarch , Love Is a...

By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire...

This beautiful book, of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh, brings together exciting new work from the two makers. Collaboration is perhaps not the right word for...

A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for...

Forty years after it was first published, Ted Hughes's Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders is presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction...

Delve into actor Abraham Rodriguez's raw journey of intimacy, sexual identity, religion, and self-discovery through captivating visuals and bilingual verse. Step into the vivid world of Reborn , the second...

A poetic celebration embracing our unfinished, imperfect, and authentic selves. The Never Was is a deeply personal return from bestselling poet Tyler Knott Gregson. Known for his intimate typewritten verse,...

"In the quiet moments, love speaks its loudest truths." Euphoria is a tender journey through love's resilience and the beauty of fleeting moments. In Euphoria , bestselling poet F.S. Yousaf-author...

'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday Times After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh...

'The world is blood-hot and personal': in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel and offers a personal way into this...