Poetry

Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous man is a great woman—and from the quick-tongued Mrs. Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the...

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia...

(Available after 3-20 days)From the best-selling author of You'll Come Back to Yourself, Poems for the Signs is a highly anticipated collection that explores the twelve astrological signs through poetry.Starting with Aries and ending with Pisces, it's a...

She Is The Poem is a love letter to women and a celebration of sapphic joy. This collection tackles topics like love, finding yourself, coming out, self-care, and femininity.

Magnolia, Nina Mingya Powles' first full collection, dwells within the tender, shifting borderland between languages, and between poetic forms, to examine the shape and texture of memories, of myths, and of a mixed-race girlhood. Abundant with...

The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionA Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the...

(Available after 3-20 days)My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light!   “First Fig” from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) The 1956 Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay...

“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles...

From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimesLouise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human,...

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and...

Morgan Harper Nichols is a talented artist, musician and poet. In this follow-up to All Along You Were Blooming, she uses her considerable skills to beautifully illustrate the importance of celebrating your journey. In the midst of the hurt and the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE.SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD.SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION.SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE.In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising...

Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.Trauma and vulnerability - violation and its aftershock - are explored within a framework of self-determination and radical...

The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry,...

**New York Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader’s Choice Award Winner**Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them...

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY.WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY.WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION.WINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY. A resplendent life in...

From the Academy Award–winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and...

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall Jarrell   The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's...

One of the greatest of the classical Greek dramas, based on the Greek legend of the Titan demi-god who, against the will of Zeus, stole fire from the gods for the benefit of man. His terrible punishment by Zeus, and his continuing defiance of Zeus in the...