Poetry

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025.An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to...

“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New Yorker. In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of...

Digging deeper into the concept of ugliness and the human body than you’ve probably ever gone before, this exhaustive examination of such a complex topic is rich with social and cultural commentary."A sweeping meditation on a subject rarely...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.Yes, as my swift days near their goal,’Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë’s heart-rending...

'If you like a) laughing or b) words which rhyme with each other, you will love Brian Bilston' - Richard Osman, author of We Solve Murders.'There is poetry to be found in anything if you look hard enough.'You Took the Last Bus Home is a collection of...

Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard―." So that readers could more fully understand the...

"Permission to Be Seen" by Aurora Jade is a deeply personal debut poetry collection that deals with the universal struggle to feel seen and understood. Divided into four chapters-roots, thorns, storm, and bloom-the book traces the journey from growing...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss returns with a stand-out collection about the art and craft and legacy of poetry itself. Told in a sharp and funny voice, Seuss creates a reading experience unlike any other with her turns of phrase and lines that...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.You are alivefor a momentwhen living...

LONGLISTED FOR THE LAUREL PRIZE.God Complex is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of progressive environmental degradation.A grieving body moves through states...

An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.   Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the...

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRY.A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.“Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time...

Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageousin the final reckoning it is the only...

An intimate portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke's life and art in interwar Paris by his friend and translator, offering unparalleled insight into the creative processA stunningly written, deeply personal biography that’s also a master class in the art...

"Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment – there’s no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet – and in the wit, acuity and seriousness of purpose with which she shows us what it is to...

  A new edition of Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf, complete with his rare translation and commentary of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, the Battle of Maldon. Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know...

An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original.A Penguin Classic.This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and...

This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides—whom...

Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the...

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire. “A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare’s sonnets, marking...