Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A beautifully raw and poignant collection of poetry and prose, Pillow Thoughts III continues the series from poet Courtney...
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that hones in...
Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...
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...
Author: Edith Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 "Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators." -Harold Bloom Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's...
Author: Robert Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards' Robert Graves No...
Author: Evelyn Araluen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. I...
Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work...
Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...
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...
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 "make them rue the day they underestimated you." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are...
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...
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...
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: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...
Author: Wang Wei Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Strikingly contemporary-feeling poems about Buddhism and luxury from Wang Wei, one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature Wang...
Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 In The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Margaret Atwood rubs shoulders with Claudia Rankine; Lu Xun and Rabindranath...
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: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...
Author: Christina G. Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The poems selected in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, showing her to be one...
Author: Ian Rankin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 It's been 25 years since Alfred Chalmers was convicted of the gruesome murder of four young women in Edinburgh....
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.' Bringing...
Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...
Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...
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...
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
Author: Ted Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who escapes death when his wife, Alcestis, volunteers to die in...
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...
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: 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...
Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...
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...
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This vigorous and swift blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the...
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice''Medea', in which...
Author: Tarriona Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak....
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...
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...
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...
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...
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
Author: Courtney Marie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Some people are like monarch butterflies-solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews...
Author: Jo Shapcott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in...
Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
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...
Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...
Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...
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...
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...
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...
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: 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: Bridgett Devoue Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bridgett Devoue takes you on a journey into the transformative world of love, lust, heartbreak, and abuse, and discovers the steps...
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
Author: Rabindranath Tagore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,...
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...
Author: Vivien Noakes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...
