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Poetry
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauche..
16.03£
David Mason was born in Washington State, forty-odd degrees north latitude, and now lives on the Australian island of Tasmania, forty-odd degrees south latitude. That Pacific crossing is the work of a lifetime of devotion and change. The rich new po..
17.29£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
In this meditative and incisive collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these po..
18.03£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
A beautiful collection from much-loved poet Pam Ayres, compiling her best verse dedicated to animals, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon. Now a Sunday Times bestseller. 'Oh WHY must you bark at the postman? Why must you batter my ears? I know it seems rum..
22.49£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life For which we give p..
12.58£
"I have never been anything but a paper girl. Something to tear into pieces. Something to burn." We've all been paper before. We've all been fragile. Leaflike and gently blowing, enough to create stories or build fires. We go through life like that...
20.50£
Paris Hilton Wins by a Country Mile is a linguistic face-off between Jacques Derrida and Paris Hilton, through 104 languages. Chunks of interviews of equal length, one from Paris Hilton and Larry King and the other between Jacques Derrida and Michae..
59.44£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPESTIn her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.These..
13.95£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to ..
12.22£
Pencil Tree is a selection of poems for Children written by Huaicun Zhang, featuring imaginative and creative writing styles and examining a broad range of topics. In addition, Pencil Tree also features a collection of illustrations, also by Zhang. ..
29.64£
Brand: Random House
A collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya AngelouThese four poems, "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers," are among the most remembered and acclaimed of Maya Angelou's poems. They celebrate ..
16.90£
Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel.Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.ISBN: 9781449489755Publisher: Andrews McMeel P..
14.64£
In May 2020 the award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson set himself the challenge of writing a Lockdown Diary in verse. The result is Plague Songs, a unique cycle of furious, bleakly comic and often offensive poems about COVID-19, fiercely inventive ..
14.76£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a po..
106.90£
Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the worst parts of yourself, coming out as bisexual, and focusing on self-growth in her much-anticipated poetry collection.Please Love Me At My Worst is a col..
16.61£
Brand: Olympia Publishers
In the poem, Pocket Size, Mychaela Frank talks about the love that 'like a stone' she kept in her pocket where she 'thought it was safe'. Mychaela's poetry considers love and mental illness, including therapy and a hospital stay. The poems cover a r..
11.91£
Brand: Random House
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 Kipling, to contempo..
20.72£
Brand: Everyman Chess
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable poems from many collections including..
15.34£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
A complex and truly timeless emotion, love - whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation - has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of..
12.50£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
A beautiful gift anthology of classic poetry which captures the excitement and joy of a new arrival in the family. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make ..
14.21£
Brand: Harvard University Press
The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal's Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with archetypal hero and heroine motifs that bridge divine and worldly love. He Spoke of Love brims with romantic rivalrie..
20.69£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. ..
12.66£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
Poetry has long been a source of comfort and inspiration in times of struggle and celebration, and this carefully curated selection of over 100 American and British poems offers readers a profound collection of verse for those who are steadfast in t..
16.13£
Poems of the First Buddhist Women A Translation of the Therigatha - Murty Classical Library of India
Brand: Harvard Common Press
The Therigatha is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part of the Pali canon of Buddhist scripture. These poems were written by some of the first Buddhist women-theris-ho..
20.53£