Poetry

From Najwa Zebian—celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet, speaker, and educator—comes a highly personal and moving second collection.In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a...

Following the success of Catarine's shades of lovers, sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a look into the process of recovering after a particularly bad love.sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a collection of...

“We all live memorable lives––sometimes we just need a little Spark to remember.” - Atticus Use this journal on the days when you’re feeling sad, nostalgic, and reflective to make yourself feel warm, powerful, grateful,...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy shares this new chronicle of small, daily wonders—and it is exactly the book we need in these unsettling times.Ross Gay’s essays have...

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE'Impressive . . ...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.With shocking,...

"People still sing goddamn it. Praise be to erica lewis." —Sampson Starkweather, author of PAIN: The Board Game   Being of black, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis’ poems recount her friends and...

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a book about one single break-upThis is a love story told in reverse. It's about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful. The beautiful and...

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful,...

A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police DepartmentIn August 2014, Michael Brown—a young, unarmed black man—was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson,...

The North American debut of Tue Sy-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam-and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series. In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master,...

A powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it.As a former student of economics,...

Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted...

Heartbreaks and failed relationships are not new to anyone. Sometimes, we move on to greener pastures and leave the pain in the past, but other times the scars remind us every day of the things we just can't get over yet. This small collection of poetry...

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged. Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great...

"[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche's thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art." —Walter Kaufmann in the IntroductionNietzsche...

Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry—known in twelfth-century Provençal as "the gay science." This extensive collection of prose and verse offers a...

One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and...

'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream,Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.'Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...

He's a brooding bodyguard. She's a single mom on the run. And in a town this small, they can't hide from their fierce attraction...   It's been a long time since Walker Ironside left behind Scotland and the memories that haunt him. Yet after years...