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A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial worl......more

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Dr John Cooper Clarke’s dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on gene......more

Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and exp......more

The brilliant and bracing debut collection of poetry from Declan Ryan: a writer, critic, and fierce new literary voice. ......more

This edition contains all Lear’s nonsense verse. Beautifully presented for adults and children alike, it contains all hi......more

A brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called "exciting, necessary, a......more

In this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father’s birth, T S Eliot Prizewinner Philip Gross continues ......more

In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a......more

This edition of a seventeenth-century Scottish poem gives modern audiences insight into the ways previous generations pe......more

Anthony Thwaite (1930-2021) was one of the most formidable voices in postwar English letters. Deeply esteemed by fellow ......more

An accessible introduction to the life and work of the inventive Welsh poet. Dylan Thomas--author of some of the century......more

A sequel to Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet, 2014), where Dante was relocated to the University of Essex, here the action shif......more

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. What are those blue remembered......more

Featuring ten collage illustrations by the author, Helen Ivory’s new poetry collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the......more

Votive Mess is a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, tracing Welsh poet Nia Davies’ e......more

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, int......more

A brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany e......more

Visceral, haunting and full of passion, verve and wit, this new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices e......more

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of......more

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A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precio......more

A hardback reprint of the classic 2014 Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney. "So many people in Ireland and overseas read,......more

Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative ......more

Tierce is a feint, a parry, a counterstrike, a set of organ stops, a band of desperadoes, a measure of provision, a hand......more

From the founding of the city, through suburban mock-revival, to the pastoral idyll of the countryside beyond, Poundland......more

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical,......more

Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas Hagger wrote three letters to the eminent literary critic Christopher Ricks about his poe......more

The English poet U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) liked to call herself "a middle-aged drop-out," having abandoned a successf......more

A new translation of the classic English poem that inspired Malory, stunningly illustrated with linocuts by the author. ......more

This collection is a visceral depiction of the difficult love between a father and son and what happens when that love i......more

"Isabella Whitney published two poetic miscellanies of secular poems: The Copy of a Letter (1567) and A Sweet Nosegay (1......more

Polkadot Wounds brings home to us the delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of trying to live a connected hu......more

Backalong, a dialect word from Nia Broomhall’s native Somerset, describes any point in the past - it could be this March......more

A four-part collection that stretches the possibilities of the poetic form, from the traditional to the experimental; fr......more

World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and......more

A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how th......more

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind. Every no......more

"A new collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon"--...more

It’s that time of year again . . . With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty-on......more

William Henry Davies (1871- 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. He was also a traveller and adventurer, often living on h......more

In Earth House, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore......more

Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteous’s lates......more

Covering the most productive period of J.H. Prynne’s career, this new volume collects all of the recent poetry of Britai......more

A generous and intimate reflection on the natural and human world, grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of Engl......more

Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is used in worship, in pastoral services and guid......more

Rich and various, From Base Materials ranges thematically from violence towards women, love in old age and surviving can......more

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize fo......more

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a ......more

River Talk is the Cumbrian water I know and love, a language that has run through me from an early age. River is refuge,......more

In The Lost Art of Ironing, the metaphorical iron smooths out life’s creases as well as crumpled clothes, with poems abo......more

Nature versus Nurture? Reflections on growing up in the post war era, viewed through a lens of music and colour. "How to......more

Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters. T......more

By turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery - candid and uncompro......more

In this tender and wryly humorous poetry collection, a child travels down her own oesophagus, a woman joins a search par......more

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The Vagaries of the Heart is the debut collection from Desmond Childs and beautifully explores Love with gentle musicali......more

The title of Michael Longley’s New Selected Poems is taken from his poem " Ash Keys." The wing-shaped, wind-borne seeds ......more

The title of Michael Longley’s New Selected Poems is taken from his poem " Ash Keys." The wing-shaped, wind-borne seeds ......more

Light is a prayer is the debut collection from poet Helen Openshaw "Reading this sequence of poems is a journey through ......more

The Strongbox opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa. Drawing in element......more

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This collection is written for those of us who remember our beginnings and recognize how defining moments shape us. The ......more

An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900 Reproduced within this collection are......more