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Book Description The New Faber Book of Love Poems, edited by James Fenton, is a glorious collection of some of the most emotive and memorable lyri...

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Si...

The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and...

The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and tra...

Product Description Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and...

From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain...

Review A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days ― The Times Featuring poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Aude...

The three arts of poetry, calligraphy and painting are regarded in China as the Triple Excellence, and they are brought together here in a beautifu...

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like 'In My...

Product Description DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTER A beautiful little book of short, simp...

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on...

Review 'Dynamic, Interrogative and unsettling; crafted yet open-ended; fiercely smart, savage and stirring - from the get-go, Paterson's poetry ha...

One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement i...

Product Description Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative specu...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reacti...

Some months before his tragic death in January 1972, John Berryman completed this selection from the whole of his published poetry. He designed it ...

Warning: this anthology contains poems to enter the. bloodstream and rewild the spirit.As with all life on Earth, the climate emergency, species ex...

Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissabl...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtu...

Product Description See the kitten, how she starts,Crouches, stretches, paws and darts;With a tiger-leap half wayNow she meets her coming prey...

About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous priz...

Product Description Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he ...

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who...