Poetry

'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

The team behind picture book favourites The Lion Inside and The Gecko and the Echo triumph once more with a heartwarming tale of keeping promises and growing up as a red panda cub sets out on an adventure. High on a misty mountainside, red panda cubs...

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton comprises the poet's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths...

Blending piercing perception with endlessly reinventive language, Mercies is a searing collection of poems from one of the most ground-breaking voices of her generation. When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of...

Get swept away in this otherworldly adventure to Moominvalley through treacherous yet beautiful landscapes.Tove Jansson takes us on a beautifully illustrated and delightfully quirky journey through Moominvalley, perfectly capturing the experience and its...

In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moomintroll meets Mymble, who has lost her sister, Little My. Along the way,...

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020. A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine. "To read Jenny Zhang is to embrace primal states: pleasure, hunger, longing and rage." ―TIME. Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines...

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a...

The Poet Laureate pays luminous tribute to the arrival of spring blossom in a collection of poems that run the gamut from haikus to ballads and from flourishing saplings to urban sprawl. Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and...

One of poetry’s most outstanding and enduring stars, Emily Dickinson’s verse abounds with quiet power and penetrating psychological insight, and this landmark edition brings together all her poems in one volume for the first time. The...

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation. “Ok’s métier in this lovely debut is an elegantly discursive, analytical style studded with ironies.”—David Woo, Literary Hub...

Discover the joy of expressing what’s inside you, with fill-in-the-blank poems that are sparking a creative movement.We all have stories inside us—whether or not we consider ourselves “creative.” Poet and novelist Joseph Fasano...

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and...

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of...

With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood. ‘It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood’On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth will be...

With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the...

With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless. ‘For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo’ A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees...

With a foreword by Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet? ‘I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest’ Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina. Sweet, innocent Hero and the famed soldier...

With a foreword by Becky Albertalli, author of Imogen, Obviously andLove, Simon. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ Hermia loves Lysander. But she must marry Demetrius or be condemned to life in a convent. Together, Hermia and...