Poetry & Plays

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: Ian Rankin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES The stage debut for the legendary detective John Rebus...

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: Elmer Rice Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 239 Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre....

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: Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the...

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...

Author: Max Egremont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all...

Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A selection of Milton's poetry The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection...

Author: Andrew Marvell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of...

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...

Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...

Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...

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Author: Michael Hofmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 First new collection of poems since Approximately Nowhere (1999).

Author: Charlie Eccleshare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Roma have risen from their ruins! Manolas, the Greek God in Rome! The unthinkable unfolds before our eyes. This was not...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 "make them rue the day they underestimated you." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind...

Author: Amber Vittoria Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 With vibrant ribbons of color and joyous words, These Are My Big Girl Pants depicts the complexities and nuances of being...

Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and...

Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and...

Author: Samuel Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy....

Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced...

Author: Lang Leav Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a...

Author: Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions...

Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the...

Author: Hmedan al-Shwe'ir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'),...

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a new companion...

Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 The first in a new illustrated poetry series. The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of...

Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like...

Author: Bryony Lavery Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Four days ago phone call from the police They think they have some news for us Can they come over? A...

Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become...

Author: Jennifer Haley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 I've read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour and behaviour in-world.The Nether...

Author: Neil LaBute Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships.