Literature & Literary Studies

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kal...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberf...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon. Four couples gath...

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants? El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's...

Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experi...

We've got no money but we're still in Waitrose twice a day. Because going to Tesco just makes life not even worth living. Viv has lost a shoe. The...

'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'Connor Fo...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by trac...

'High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [...] What a tremendous gift to readers to witness a poetics balanced so deftly between intellec...

A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence add...

This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well established Guide. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by iden...

The poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a failed love affair: its secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with subtlety and irony. A ...

Product Description A piano prodigy reeling from the death of his younger sister flees to New York City. Taking uneasy refuge in books, he reinven...

About the Author Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), w...

About the Author Mick Imlah was born in 1956 and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught...

Review 'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that tired view of the poet as mouse that barely roared in favour of ...

Review This is mind-bending, it's ingenious and it's ethically challenging... A knotty, important and thought-provoking disputation about virtual ...

Review "Collins encourages wildness. She strips her poems of context, which invites readers to collaborate and imagine with her.... Who Is Mary Su...

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nigh...

Review 'Time - what it is, how it shifts, what happens when we lose our grip on it - is at the heart of Lavinia Greenlaw's new collection . here's...

Review O'Donoghue's poems are an object lesson in how to write poetry that matters. The new collection confirms him as one of the most lyrical, am...

Product Description From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar Kunial is just such ...

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of t...

And the Internet has democratised overly. But you know what? People love hierarchy. It infuriates them but it makes them horny. It's gold dust. An...

Product Description When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an excep...

Review Frolic and Detour is a perfect title: there's plenty of both in this new collection from Ireland's most ingenious poet . . . A treat. -- Tr...

Love is just sex. And sex is just chance. And chance is just timing. And free will. Come on It beats swiping right. When B spills coffee down A's ...

Welcome to After Fame - an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam ...

'[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never straye...

Review 'I is a Strange Loop is a play that plays with ideas, concepts, abstractions andrelationships that are, usually, hidden from the sight of o...

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were th...

Review Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight t...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'Jack Underwood has developed an utterly clear lyric that rebukes mor...

About the Author David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (...

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius. In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James...

I wish there could be a day where families came together and just said it all to each other. Because then everyone would know it all, and there'd b...

Review 'Wallace's excellent, riveting play is an absorbing story of love, lust and loyalty.' ― Daily Telegraph 'A poetic and deeply tender look a...

I am honoured to meet you. You are, as they say, a man after my own heart. And you have lifted mine. My heart, that is. Two men, together, on the ...

The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The...

The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthu...

'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do a...

Selected by Seán Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year. In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of...

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scot...

Review The most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time. Thank fuck for Marina Hyde. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge As witty as it is ...

Product Description A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning jour...

Review "An ambitious, thought-provoking, diverse collection of imaginings. I laughed, I cried" -- WILL DEAN "A fascinating and rich collection" ―...

A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a...