Poetry & Plays

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This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972)....

'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey This is the...

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts,...

As a poet, editor and essayist, T.S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most...

'Powerful, capacious and profound' OCEAN VUONG 'A book you won't soon forget' ILYA KAMINSKY 'Astonishing' TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2025...

Winner 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship a partnership between the State Library ofQueensland's black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala Books From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing...

A young man changes into a snake and goes on a killing spree. A private investigator investigates the disappearance of a family member of the mayor of the Gold Coast,...

A celebration of the moon, of life and of love from one of Australia s most acclaimed authors. By turns romantic and realist, Bruce Pascoe explores the urgency of the...

A Savage Turn is a searing debut from a Gamilaroi author. Using his biting wit and refreshing insight into modern and traditional life, Luke Patterson takes readers to forest billabongs,...

A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what...

'in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...' Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar...

You are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An' um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar man Cartwarra or...

**Shortlisted, ALS Gold Medal 2023** ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on...

More Than These Bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author's journey through heartbreak and self-discovery. The book is rooted in place. Pieces land in multiple settings...

A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of...

"Measure for Measure"'s exploration of moral and ethical issues has ensured its wide popularity among modern readers and theatregoers. This new edition sets the play in its historical context, examining...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Angered by the loss of his son in battle, the Earl of Northumberland...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Young King Henry wages war on France. But, tainted by his father's crimes,...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Conspiracies and intrigue are rife in the court of Henry VIII as a...

A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade-the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called "the Millennial Oprah" by New York Magazine -that offers creative inspiration and life lessons through...

The final volume in the new Penguin Ibsen series- superb modern translations of four of Ibsen's greatest plays In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the...

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and...

A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt...

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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and...

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. In...

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry In this 'graceful, elegant translation' (Guardian), Poet Laureate Simon Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the Middle English tale with all...

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is...

'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday Times After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh...

'The world is blood-hot and personal': in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel and offers a personal way into this...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the...

A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never...

Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental...

The captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria...