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Alun Lewis
A Cypress Walk

Letters from Alun Lewis to Freda Aykroyd.

In July 1943 the young Welsh poet and soldier Alun Lewis, already recognized as one of the… More about this book

Michael Longley
A Jovial Hullabaloo

In the spring of 2008, Michael Longley was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry. His inaugural lecture, published here for the first time, constitutes… More about this book

Gregory Warren Wilson
Mercury Fountain, The

Insight depends on attentiveness, but can also strike us spontaneously as revelation. The poems in this collection are unified by the urge to look into… More about this book

David Jones
The Ancient Mariner

The artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974) considered The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to be 'one of the great achievements of English poetry, and… More about this book

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Michael Longley
Cenotaph of Snow: Sixty Poems about War

It was rushes of air that took the breath away. As though curtains were drawn suddenly aside. And darkness streamed into the dormitory. Where everybody… More about this book

Anthony Thwaite
Collected Poems

Anthony Thwaite's Collected Poems, published as he reaches seventy-seven, give readers an opportunity to see gathered together all the poems he… More about this book

Alan Brownjohn
Ludbrooke & Others

A sixty-poem sequence brings a new departure in Alan Brownjohn’s poetry. ‘Ludbrooke’ is a rueful, proud, somewhat devious figure who… More about this book

Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies

Selected by Philip Pullman as one of his 40 favourite books

Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and… More about this book

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Michael Longley
Love Poet, Carpenter: Michael Longley at Seventy

Michael Longley once remarked, ‘If I knew where poems came from, I’d go there.’ In the forty years since his first book, No Continuing… More about this book

U.A. Fanthorpe , R. V. Bailey
From Me to You: Love Poems

Drawings by Nick Wadley

U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey write: ‘Wordsworth speaks of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. … More about this book

Mario Petrucci
Flowers of Sulphur

Over a decade in the making, Flowers of Sulphur marks a fresh phase in Mario Petrucci’s engagement with the fundamentals of human… More about this book

Paul Muldoon
Plan B

Photographs by Norman McBeath

An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish… More about this book

Hubert Moore
Left-Handers

From reviews of Hubert Moore's last collection, Rolling Stock.

'Hubert Moore's poems in Rolling Stock edge sideways into their… More about this book

Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems

'one of the most delightful anthologies to be published in years. It's beautifully illustrated and the poems...echo...with charm and sheer… More about this book

London in Poetry and Prose

DRAWINGS BY NEIL PITTAWAY

‘I behold London; a Human awful wonder of God.’. from William Blake’s 'Jerusalem'

This anthology… More about this book

Mini Sagas

‘Perhaps mini-sagas are like Chinese meals; you’re still hungry after you’ve eaten the lot. Or perhaps they are simply addictive, like… More about this book

Noshi Gillani
Poems

Noshi Gillani was born in Pakistan in 1964 and now lives in the USA. She has published four collections of poetry. Her selected poems, Ay Meeray… More about this book

Isaac Rosenberg
Poetry Out of My Head and Heart

An astonishing discovery was made in 1995 during the British Library's removal from the British Museum. Thirty-four letters and eighteen draft poems,… More about this book

Edward Upward
Edward Upward Special Offer

‘Edward Upward was one of the last century’s most distinctive writers of English prose.’ The Times

To celebrate the… More about this book

Kevin Crossley-Holland
Exeter Book Riddles, The

The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century Exeter Book are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety.

Ranging from natural… More about this book

Kate Rhodes
The Alice Trap

Kate Rhodes’ second collection is powerful and varied. She writes about personal concerns such as family, loss and love in a style which Don Paterson… More about this book

Edward Thomas
Ship of Swallows: a selection of short stories, The

Preface by Myfanwy Thomas

Edward Thomas’s stories formed an important stage in his imaginative development, and constitute a significant… More about this book

Edward Upward
Edward Upward Signed Letterpress Editions

Edward Upward, one of the masters of English prose, was a contemporary of both W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Auden frequently sought Upward's advice… More about this book

Dannie Abse
The Two Roads Taken

I don’t feel too different from many other writers who feel a certain amount of alienation. For instance – I went to a Catholic school, I’m… More about this book

Martha Kapos
Supreme Being

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Following her prize-winning first collection, Martha… More about this book

Duncan Forbes
Lifelines

A lively and versatile poet, Duncan Forbes can deal in modes both comic and elegiac with life’s events. With his eye for detail and strong… More about this book

Michael Longley
A Jovial Hullabaloo

In the spring of 2008, Michael Longley was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry. His inaugural lecture, published here for the first time, constitutes… More about this book

Michael Henry
After the Dancing Dogs

Michael Henry’s fourth collection with Enitharmon Press is a far-reaching and sharp study of physical and emotional landscapes. These intriguing poems… More about this book

Maureen Duffy
Family Values

Inspired by and devoted to absent friends, this selection of poems from 1989 onwards shows Duffy at her bravest and most colourful, a consummate performer… More about this book

Simon Armitage
Out of the Blue

'...enlarging, expanding and wondrously affecting. As general reading this book is perfect - it does not teach, it provokes thought and response and so… More about this book

Myra Schneider
Circling the Core

Myra Schneider’s new collection opens with a sequence inspired by one of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures and explores the idea of core from… More about this book

Judy Gahagan
Secret Frontiers, The

The secret frontiers of these poems extend between the fantastic images of people from remote cultures and the indigenous poet in a shared quarter of the… More about this book