Poetry & Plays

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: John Earle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium AD, Beowulf is an Old English...

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: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Just as moving and endearing as Peppernell's previous books, I Hope You Stay is a reminder of the resilience...

Author: Michel Faber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife,...

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: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...

Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...

Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...

Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...

Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...

Author: Eugenio Montale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 793 Hailed as one of the key poets of the modern era, Eugenio Montale changed Italian poetry forever and helped to create...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...

Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...

Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. I mean the truth untold, The pity...

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: Noor Unnahar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artist An all-new illustrated poetry collection from...

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: 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: 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: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem...

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: 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: 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: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...

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: 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 Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of...

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: 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: 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: Lexy Wren-Sillevis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 "There are so many words, insults, labels and boxes for women to be packaged and packed off in. Often, but not...

Author: Komal Kapoor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 After prolific growth on social media, Komal Kapoor is utilizing her perceptive understanding of romance in the digital age to present...

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: 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: 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: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...

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: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it...

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: 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: 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: Akif Kichloo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed...

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: 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: 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: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' - William Blake...