Poems for Fifty Years
£12.99For the first time, a selection of Graham Swift's poems has been collected in a single volume to celebrate his 50 years as a published writer.
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Selected Poems
£14.99‘Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?’One of America’s best loved poets, Mary Oliver is also among nature’s most brilliant and devoted observers, whose words ask us to live with our eyes open wider. This luminous selection brings together her best-known works from across her career.’Oliver’s poems are … as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring’ New York Times Book Review’Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing’ Stanley Kunitz’Just a few seemingly simple phrases perfectly express what we need to know just then, in that moment’ Oprah Winfrey’It doesn’t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver’s poetry. She’s speaking directly to you as a human being’ Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker.
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Volvelle
£12.99A collection of poems on heritage, the present and the march of progress from the Forward Prize-winning poet.
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You Must Live
£12.99‘You Must Live’ brings together some of the most remarkable poets living and writing in Palestine today, from renowned international prize winners to talented emerging voices. Composed over the past few years and gathered under desperate conditions, these poems, which appear in the original Arabic alongside English translations, are haunted by the long spectre of occupation, transforming laments for lost family, friends and places into a new vision of home. This is a poetry of witness and profound lyric imagination, attuned to the hidden beauty of the natural landscape, the music of sparrows under crowded skies, the electricity of complex desire, daring to conceive a dazzling future beyond dispossession and military siege.
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Talking in Bed and Other Poems
£10.00In lines perfectly constructed and as beautiful as they are plain-spoken, Philip Larkin found a way of delineating our most difficult emotions – giving them back to us in images and formulations that help us both comprehend and contain ourselves.
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Sparrow on the Rooftop
£12.99Rachel Long’s second collection is a study of desire, crisis and self-realisation, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars.
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He, She, They, Us
£9.99A much-needed, inspiring collection of poems both old and new written by queer poets.
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How to Lay an Egg With a Horse Inside
£16.99Welcome to Brian Bilston's ‘writing masterclass': a collection of more than 100 poems woven into a charming and informative guide on how to read, write and enjoy poetry.
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Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders
£14.99The sixteen poems gathered in Ted Hughes’ ‘Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders’ brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of sentiment or nostalgia, singles out Hughes as one of the truly great poet-interpreters of the natural world. This edition gives full justice to the subtlety of the original watercolour illustrations, produced by Hughes’s long-term collaborator and friend, the American artist, Leonard Baskin.
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Emily Dickinson
£14.99Explore the enigmatic life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, whose poetry delves into themes of death, nature, love and the complexities of the human soul, making her a timeless figure in American literature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The poetry pharmacy forever
£14.99After the tumult of the last few years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life’s ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails from the public he received during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-person pharmacies, to create an essential anthology of poetry for our times. Through his expert curation and insightful commentary, he reminds us of the power of words to help us heal, to reconnect us with the world and to recover what has been lost. From weathering sorrow and sudden loss, to dealing with environmental despair and burnout, this new selection speaks directly to a society in greater need of comfort and compassion than ever before.