Poetry & Plays

Author: Lang Leav Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date,...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my...

Author: Mina Loy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the...

Author: Frank Bidart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary...

Author: Marina Carr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Love in the...

Author: Ted Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 197 Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets...

Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Between my fingers and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it. Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work...

Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 107 Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the...

Author: Taz Alam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 276 A raw, honest and heartfelt poetry collection from Taz Alam - for the tough times, the great times, and everything in...

Author: Gjertrud Schnackenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg, whom William Logan once called the most talented American poet under the age of forty, published her...

Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet Often considered to be the greatest poet of...

Author: Eliza Griswold Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Because my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart. Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian...

Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." --The Times Literary Supplement Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers...

Author: S.S. Stanton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In this classic anthology of French drama, Stephen S. Stanton has assembled the nineteenth century's finest "well-made plays": The Glass of...

Author: Paul Muldoon (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also...

Author: Ted Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales...

Author: Derek Walcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work....

Author: Arna Wendell Bontemps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps...

Author: Mary Jo Bang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and Elegy We...

Author: Lanford Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1987 to...

Author: Sophie Cabot Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 75 "Black's voice is startling, jagged and implacable, and [her poetry] is steep, precipitous and dazzling." --Los Angeles Times Book Review...

Author: Dana Gioia (University of Southern California) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Now in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia So much of...

Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Luminous new poems from one who has long been a poet of gorgeous description --William Logan, The New Criterion Landscape, as...

Author: Aelius Donatus Virgil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh The Eclogues of Virgil gave...

Author: Donald Barthelme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while...

Author: Ange Mlinko Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A vibrant and eclectic collection from a stunningly mature young poet The world--the time has come to say it, though the...

Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...

Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Seamus Heaney's new collection starts In an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as The automatic lock /...

Author: Christian Wiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the...

Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 231 This important book--shot through with reflections on, explorations of, and hymns to both our natural and spiritual realms--features the three poetry...

Author: Elaine Scarry (Harvard University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare's beautiful young man Shakespeare's sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and...

Author: John McPhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain,...

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...

Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...

Author: Fanny Howe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 196 Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language and meaning by one of America's...

Author: Tony Hoagland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 230 Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role...

Author: Seamus Heaney (Harvard University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of...

Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 308 Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful...

Author: Alan Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and...

Author: Professor of English Yusef Komunyakaa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry An intimate...

Author: Elmer Rice Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 239 Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre....

Author: Fred Marchant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 63 "To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant's work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his...

Author: Arthur Kopit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in...

Author: Tom Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 118 Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this...

Author: David Daniel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 72 David Daniel explores a city-entire lives-swept clean off the map in this haunting debut As breezes lap the shallow-tugged tide flow...

Author: Ana Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums, whether it's her first baby or her fifth. 'I read every single...