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A mouse is like a heart: it sleeps in winter; it knows uncertain love. None of us knows what to expect out there. Surely pain is to be a part of it. This collection offers a way of seeing – passing through ageing, through loss, while staying open to the beauties and mysteries of the world and the people in it. Henri Cole, one of America’s finest poets, balances ecstasy with a constant awareness of devastating violence, whether inside our threshold, or glimpsed from afar. These observant lyrics resist easy answers; they gleam with desire and doubt, bracing for uncertain love, for certain pain, for sudden joy, in our ever-strange bodies.
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A beautifully curated collection of Maya Angelou’s most beloved poems, accompanied by the vibrant artwork of Aurélia Durand.
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A cheering Christmas poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate, accompanied by enchanting illustrations by Joe McLaren.
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Jackie Kay’s Selected Poems 1991-2026 gathers together a body of work that is nothing short of exceptional.
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Raucous new poems from the Poet Laureate of Punk.
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Poems of loss and liberation, the body and the human spirit: the astonishing debut collection from Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen.
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The judges of the 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry read hundreds of recent books and individual poems before arriving at this anthology. The Forward Prizes are the most influential awards for new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. This selection combines fresh voices with familiar names, making the book essential reading for seasoned poetry enthusiasts and new readers alike.
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The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for ‘New Cemetery’. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems, composed in short- lined tercets, reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland. As phases of lockdown come and go and the cemetery fills up with new ‘residents’, Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.
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For 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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‘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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A 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’ 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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In 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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Rachel 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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A much-needed, inspiring collection of poems both old and new written by queer poets.
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Welcome 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.
