Poetry & Plays

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: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Ideas, poetry, and prose from bestselling authors Samantha King Holmes & r.h. Sin.

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...

Author: Cyrus Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 "dropkick this broken heart and make it feel again." From pro-wrestler-turned-poet Cyrus Parker comes a poetic memoir that tells...

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: 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...

Author: r.h. Sin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and...

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...

Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...

Author: Abraham Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The works of three seventeenth century poets, Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Edmund, brought together in one volume.

Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...

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: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love...

Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A special hardcover gift edition of Courtney Peppernell's bestselling Pillow Thoughts! Originally published in 2017, Pillow Thoughts is a collection of...

Author: Liz Ison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A beautifully packaged anthology of poems from around the world and throughout history, all especially selected for reading aloud, with one...

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...

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...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the...

Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A wonderful bedside companion on a winter's evening to enjoy our place in nature, even on a cold wintery night,...

Author: Rupi Kaur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Global sensation and internationally renowned author - Rupi Kaur's milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing the modern woman....

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Author: Samantha King Holmes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose,...

Author: Michaela Angemeer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the worst parts of yourself, coming out...

Author: Leticia Sala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Real love is light The rest is electricity When her love interest surprises her by moving to Spain, it...

Author: Harold Green III Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing...

Author: Linda Gregerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from "a contemporary master"*-a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our...

Author: Melody Godfred Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Readers have called her work 'life changing', 'pandemic medicine', and 'part of my daily ritual'. Oprah Magazine and the Today Show...

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: Rupi Kaur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Global sensation and internationally renowned author - Rupi Kaur's milk and honey celebrates the challenges and triumphs facing the modern woman....

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...

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: Gabbie Hanna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 New York Times bestselling author Gabbie Hanna delivers everything from curious musings to gut-wrenching confessionals in her long-awaited sophomore...

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...

Author: Vikram Seth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind That I am forever waking in a lost country...'...

Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as...