Poetry

This book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats, Shakespeare, Housman and...

In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole...

A wonderful anthology of poems by women poets, collected by WENDY COPE. Collected by one of Britain’s foremost poets, Is that the New Moon? is an exciting mix of styles and genres by leading women poets including: Grace Nichols, Frances Horovitz,...

From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging...

This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are...

A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Greek and Roman love stories that reclaim and celebrate homosexual love and sensuality, from artist Luke Edward Hall and award-winning poet Seán Hewitt.For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient...

From Medusa and Loki to Osiris and Beowulf, this sparkling poetic collection of retellings and reimaginings from world myth and folklore brings classic tales to life for a whole new generation. A stunning gift book drawing together mythological poems...

From Hamlet and Romeo and Julietto A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, children's storytelling supremo Michael Morpurgo adapts ten of Shakespeare's most beloved plays for a young audience. Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the...

A brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year.Each poem is inspired by a significant – often curious – event associated with that day: from Open an...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO GIFT For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems...

An elegant hardcover collector’s edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout...

Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection.Beneath the surface we are all connected . . .This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years’...

The beauty of a poem is how much it can convey in few words. Actress Megan Fox tells us more in these poems than any magazine or tabloid feature ever could.Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry...

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk, hailed as “the poet of her generation” (Time), charts a path away from exhaustion and endless crises and toward a place of renewal and radiant love with a new,...

If you loved the game-changing hardcover edition, you’ll love the paperback, now with more songs and a personal foreword, thus giving us even more Paul McCartney.   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Washington Post Notable...

“I am large, I contain multitudes”A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYFor fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America.   In 1972, after Ferdinand Marcos...

A compassionate, bold and poetic memoir told in an unfolding of notes-to-self, this book navigates race, resistance, identity, creativity, love and family. Evocative, kaleidoscopic and crisply, concretely real, Ordinary Notes has a palpable...

Lang Leav's adult debut centers on the teenage descendents of Cambodian refugees in small-town Australia in the late 90s and the aftermath of a violent, racist act. While this is a novel about the impact of trauma, both acute and generational, it is also...

Selected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far...