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Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
Author: Barbara Kingsolver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 The poems of How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living....
John Donne Selected Poems
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Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
A selection of poems by John Donne
The Odyssey
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...
Clarity & Connection
Author, Yung Pueblo Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 256 From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how...
She Just Wants to Forget
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 She Just Wants to Forget is the follow up to the New York Times bestselling poetry collection She Felt...
The Iliad
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's Iliad is the greatest and most influential epic poem ever written, telling of the tragic and bloody climax to...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Author: Geoffrey Bownas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Penguin Book of Japanese Versecontains over 700 poems from the third century to the twentieth, including both tanka...
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Author: Robin Kirkpatrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition The Divine Comedy...
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living,...
The Saga of the Volsungs
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...
The Penguin Book of Haiku
Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...
Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith
Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' - William Blake...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of...
Inferno The Divine Comedy I
Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...
The Nature of Things
Author: Lucretius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
Author: Philip Terry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for...
The Pillow Book
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings
Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...
Selected Poems
Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Author: Christopher Reid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 I've rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and...
The Poetry of Horses
Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to...
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A stunning new hardcover edition--linen with copper stamping-of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new...
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
Author: Adonis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan...
Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...
The Homeric Hymns
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky. Composed...
A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening
Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 136 Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems...
Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman
Author: Kirsty Gunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 A beautiful and thought-provoking collection of poetry from the world's most inspiring female writers. From the vivid, contemporary voices of Fiona...
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump
Author: Rob Sears Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing...
You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead
Author: Morgan Harper Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Sometimes it's difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. This illustrated collection of poetry...
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme...
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
Author: Jonathan Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of...
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
Author: Max Egremont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all...
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like...
The Penelopiad
Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become...
The Duchess (of Malfi)
Author: Zinnie Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won't wear my hair up because...
And Still I Rise
Author: Dr Maya Angelou Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying,...
She Fits Inside These Words
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind,...
RENDANG
Author: Will Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet...
Beowulf
Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who...
Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2
Author: Tom Stoppard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The three plays tell the story of the Russian radical opposition in the years before and after the European...