Poetry & Plays

Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater...

Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one...

Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...

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: 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...

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...

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...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made...

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...

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: 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: 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: 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: Greta Bellamacina Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 SMEAR: Poems For Girls presents a curated, all-female lineup of poets from different countries, and addresses issues of trauma,...

Author: Jessica Semaan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 "In her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront &moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear...

Author: Cyrus Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Divided into three parts and illustrated by Parker, masquerade grapples with topics such as the never-ending search for acceptance,...

Author: Louis Cannizzaro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Self-published poet and painter Louis Cannizzaro invites you into a universe of playful and haunting poetry with There Once Was a...

Author: Frank Skinner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever,...

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: Tim McGraw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 What if practical inspiration could be as simple as an eye-opening, heartfelt song? From Grammy-winning star performer, husband, and father, Tim...

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: 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: 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...

Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 R.H. Sin's second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the...

Author: Vikram Seth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth -...

Author: Aline Mello Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Born in Brazil, Aline Mello immigrated to the United States in 1997. Using her experience as an undocumented woman during a...

Author: Michael Faudet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Playing with Matches is the ultimate collector's edition by internationally best-selling poet, Michael Faudet. A beautiful hardcover gift book that has...

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...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Foulcher Format: Paperback...

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: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life...

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...

Author: Vincent Hunanyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This collection offers a refreshingly honest approach to life and love that is realistic and relatable to everyone. Written...

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: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...

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: 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: 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: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...

Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...

Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This story is for you. This story is a piece of you. This story is about how you emerged, stronger, brighter,...

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...

Author: Deborah Alma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the British...

Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...

Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...