Poetry

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...

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

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...

The life of the Man in Black revealed by his lyrics,  authorized by the Cash estate. Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than six hundred songs and sold more...

"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy".--"New York Times Book Review"...

In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Judgment is suspended as the poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carry us through night’s reckoning with mortal...

Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Love is a two-book collection from bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake that explores the duality of the heart to cling to darkness while fighting to feel the light.A unique duet between two powerhouse...

From the co-author and illustrator of The Lost Spells, and The Lost Words—single animal focused meditations in accordion form An Accordion Book doesn’t open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal:...

A captivating selection of enduring verse by one of the Victorian era's most beloved poetsChristina Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse forms. Weaving connections between love...

Manorism is a poetic examination of the lives of Black British men and boys: propped up and hemmed in by contemporary masculinity, deepened by family, misrepresented in the media, and complicated by the riches, and the costs, of belonging and inheritance...

Evoking a Scotland full of feline magic, majestic nature and glorious gothic atmosphere, The Cat Prince & Other Poems sees the award-winning poet in his finest, bravest and most vulnerable form. The Books Are My Bag Reader's Awards Poetry Winner...

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), like his friend Ezra Pound, never finished his magnum opus, a poem as impossibly ambitious as the Cantos, but richly invested in the present world. It was published over a period of a dozen years...