Elizabeth Barrett Browning
£14.99A curated collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry that explores the personal, political and intellectual depth of this pivotal Victorian poet.
- You cannot add that amount of "Sonnets" to the basket because there is not enough stock (0 remaining).
Showing 13–24 of 40 resultsSorted by latest
-
-
Sonnets
£18.99A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Shakespeare’s immortal poems with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare’s sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery – why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? Each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive.
-
Peck & Peck
£22.00
Pre order price: £22.00THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GLOBAL SENSATION LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY RETURNS . . . Peck & Peck tells the irresistible story of a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck. Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect and security. Now Batter is in his early 20s, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some people and bores most. Poetry. And yet to him – and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck – poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.Batter was named after his mother’s dog, who seemed to have achieved more in his short years on earth than he ever will. But
-
I Still Believe in Miracles
£16.99Choose to love despite it all. How do you respond to fear, grief, heartbreak, war, loss, injustice, a world that seems more divided and messed up than ever? Poet Lucas Jones explores how we search for meaning in difficult times in this remarkable homage to the beautiful humanity of choosing to love despite it all. Powerful, uplifting and authentic, these are poems to hold close, to cry over, to remind you that there is profound and unwavering hope.
-
Collected Poems
£16.99Here are the full poetic works of our wittiest and much-beloved writer, including many previously uncollected poems. When ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ was published in 1986 Wendy Cope became that rarest of creatures: a best-selling and celebrated poet. Her artful combination of clarity and wit made an extraordinary impact in poems that cocked a gentle snook at the pomposity of a literary world hitherto dominated by men. Since then, through four further collections, she has continued to delight, finding, through the viral nature of the web, a whole new generation of enthusiastic readers. Love and heartbreak; life and death – those daily desires and fears that underlie our existences – these are the subjects she tackles with an unpretentiousness that draws us in and an emotional resonance that keeps us coming back for more.
-
Stop All the Clocks
£10.00W.H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. ‘Stop All the Clocks’ presents a selection of his most well-known and lucid poems, poems that give shape and expression to our strongest emotions. Here are the anxieties that can beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement. And here, in these resonant, dazzling poems, is the clarity and understanding we might be looking for.
-
Burns for Every Day of the Year
£25.00Across the world, as midnight strikes on New Year’s Eve, Burns’s beloved song ‘Auld Lang Syne’ is sung in a spirit of friendship and togetherness. But his exuberant wit, insight and generous-hearted humanity can be celebrated every day. This collection – perfect for Burns aficionados and Burns beginners alike – reminds us of old favourites and introduces new treasures. Thoughtfully curated by Dr Pauline Mackay of the University of Glasgow, it offers 366 glimpses into the genius of this remarkable bard, creating a panoramic view of his colourful life and multifaceted literary legacy.
-
The Emergency Poet
£12.99We all have moments in which life can feel overwhelming. This book presents a selection of poems that is designed to lift your mood.
-
The Ramayana
£11.99The epic story of Rama, hero and prince who must battle for justice and righteousness against forces of chaos and evil.
-
When Angels Speak of Love
£10.99Icon of women’s movement and author of over 20 books including a narrative series on love, bell hooks, makes this brilliant debut as a poet, now, reminding us of the good and bad moments we spend in love.
-
Soseki Natsume’s Collected Haiku
£16.991,000 haiku by Soseki Natsume, collected into one volume for the first time!
-
Not waving but drowning and other poems
£10.00Stevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as spoken word (before that was a thing). The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the ‘eye of an anarchist’ over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don’t have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and for any of us who at one time or another have imagined ourselves not waving but drowning.