Poetry

A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron's letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels—and timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tragic early deathGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, was...

The founder of National Poetry Day is back, dispensing poetic prescriptions with aplomb in this inspiring new collection of verse. With over fifty ‘conditions’ addressed and numerous suggestions from the public at large, The Poetry Pharmacy...

A New Yorker Essential Read of 2023.Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature.A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School...

Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist "Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of...

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets—117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An intimate collection of poems that “picks up where Stag’s Leap left off, which is to say that it contains some of the best and most ingenious poems of her career.” —The New York TimesOpening with the...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From one of today's best poets—a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.In this wise and intimate telling—which...

Contemporary poetry is on such solid and fertile ground when we can read Louise Glück, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, and now the latest collection from Sharon Olds. We urge you to take your time with this volume. It's relevant, emotional, and full of...

Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online - perhaps you've seen them? They've also been recreated by...

'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to...

"... ever-present, phantom thing;My slave, my comrade, and my king" Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018. LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018. A BEST BOOK OF 2017.Financial TimesThe GuardianThe Daily TelegraphThe Observer “Meena Kandasamy’s...

Following her seminal translation of The Odyssey, Wilson delivers an eminently readable yet still authoritative edition of Homer's other great epic in this magisterial volume. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing...

In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland 'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'MAX PORTER, author of Shy As the mind...

Anne Carson’s first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016)Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker...

A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award.Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric...

'But no, she's abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.' Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets...

A fast-paced debut that draws upon reservation folklore, pop culture, fractured gospels, and her brother's addiction to methamphetamine

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020.Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020.NPR's Best Books of 2020.National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist.Frank Sanchez Book Award.After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies...

Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020.Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020.Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of...