Poetry

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...

With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie Little Badger, Sheree Renée Thomas, and two dozen other fantasy and science fiction geniuses bring a new and...

A cast of mousers, pouncers, purrers and moggy muses paw their way through this cat-lovers collection, penned by some of the greatest poets. Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and...

We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspectives of four female...

Behold, the power of positive poetry. Sincerely is a gorgeous collection of F.S. Yousaf’s poetry fill with optimism and love. And really, what else do you need in the world but that dynamic duo? Searching for a profound way to propose...

As featured in 'Gracefully You' by Jenna Dewan. April Green's 'Bloom for Yourself' is a beautiful, tender book of poetic writing, woven into deeper lessons on healing, growth, faith, and self-love. Her approach to writing is delicate and spiritual;...

Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New...

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving."This is more...

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 bracing, vibrant reflection on the millennial condition, Cowboy interrogates paradigms of growing up and coming of age in the modern world, from the pressures of cohabiting to the ritual of rent-paying and beyond. Shortlisted for...

Time Will Tell is a collection of introspective poetry from bestselling author Courtney Peppernell. Come along and discover what it means to start inward and evolve into the version of yourself the universe knows you can be.From the bestselling...

In Late Shift at the Pickle Factory Mary Dickins presents the reader with an intensely crafted patchwork of stories, reminiscences, observations and whimsy. These poems are tender, sad, joyful, surreal and ridiculous and always characterised by...

Travelling from Andalusia to East Anglia, A Method, A Path is a passionate celebration of language, translation and the transmission of words across cultures, locations and time. Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First...

'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.   There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry,...