They Bloom Because of You
Bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs returns with a new collection of beautifully observed poems about the ever-evolving journey of motherhood - the hard, the magic and the fleeting. βA raw and honest read that makes you feel seen and understood in a way that will bring you to tears.β - Hilary Swank βA book to keep close and...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowLeaves of Grass
A collectible new Penguin Classics series offers beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. In 1855, Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouragement led to what would become a lifelong project, as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death...Hardback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowBeautiful Chaos
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. 'These words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary.' - Giovanna Fletcher Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood, capturing everything...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowHekate
βA vivid and imaginatively wrought divine world that is monstrous, magical and beautiful. It's a timely and achingly resonant reflection on conflict, fear and the unbreakable bonds of family conveyed in exquisite, evocative poetry.β β Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Hera and Ariadne βIn a wholly original, incandescent take on the myth of Hekate, Nikita Gill captures the beauty, brutality...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowDon't Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition)
In this book, you'll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you've always wanted to live. Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. This book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTo the Women - The New Collection of Wise Words Every Woman Needs
THE COMPLETELY UPDATED COLLECTION WITH OVER 70 BRAND NEW POEMS, FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE AND WORDS TO LIVE BY 'Amazing . . . Donna's words speak to my heart' Davina McCall To the Women is a celebration of the beauty, strength, and joy of being a woman. A love letter to our deep capacity...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer is a monumental epic that has enthralled readers for centuries with its rich tapestry of adventure and human struggle. It chronicles the perilous journey of Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, as he strives to return home after the fall of Troy. During this ten-year odyssey, Odysseus confronts myriad dangers, both natural and supernatural, that test...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump
For the last decade, Rob Sears has been painstakingly combing the words of Donald J. Trump for signs of poetry. To the surprise of many, he has found riches. By simply cutting up and reordering lines from Trump's tweets, Truths and transcripts, Sears has unearthed a trove of exquisite verse that was just waiting to be found. In this expanded...Hardback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Prophet (Hero Classics)
The Prophet (Hero Classics) by Kahlil Gibran is a timeless masterpiece that delves into the profound conversations of the prophet Al-Mustafa as he prepares to sail back to his homeland after a twelve-year exile. During his final hours in the city of Orphalese, he shares his wisdom with a group of people who gather around him, seeking enlightenment on life's...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Odyssey
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travellers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative....Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3599Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late AugustLight and Thread
What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries. A book of...Hardback$2999Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowLove Poems
For the first time, Rupi Kaurβs heartfelt love poems are together in one intimate and timeless collection!love will comeand when love comeslove will hold youlove will call your nameSince her groundbreaking debut with the bestselling milk and honey, Rupi Kaurβs poetry has become a source of comfort, empowerment, and emotional truth for millions around the world. Now, for the first...Hardback$3199Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowParadise Lost
In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. Yet, by placing a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$1900Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowthe love of my life
The brand new poetry collection from the internationally bestselling poet and TikTok phenomenon, Whitney Hanson the love of my life is a poetry collection that traces the process of rediscovering a love for life after change, disconnection, and personal upheaval. Using the metaphor of fires, the book is structured in three sections: Burning, Ashes, and Reclamationβto reflect the cycles of...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowInferno: The Divine Comedy I
Beautifully designed clothbound edition of this brilliant translation. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...Hardback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSelected Poems
Selected Poems by Rumi is a mesmerising collection of profound and richly textured verses that delves into the depths of the human experience. This compilation showcases the unparalleled brilliance of Jelaluddin Rumi, a thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar, and the founder of the Whirling Dervishes. Rumi's poetry transcends time, inviting readers on a spiritual journey that explores the universal themes...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2300Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Iliad
The Iliad, authored by Homer, stands as the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilisation and is now available in a stunning new clothbound edition. The Iliad plunges readers into the throes of the legendary Trojan War. Set during the conflict's final year, this epic poem paints a vivid picture of bloodshed, glory, and the immortal struggles of heroes. The tale...Hardback$4300Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Aeneid
The Aeneid by Virgil, inspired by Homer and an inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil chose as his hero Aeneas, the legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race. In telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human...Paperback$2599Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMythos
Mythos by Stephen Fry is a compelling retelling of the classic Greek myths, reimagined with a wit and elegance that only Fry can deliver. This volume transports the reader to a world where mortals intertwine with the divine, and the timeless tales unfold in a spellbinding narrative that captures the imagination. From the cosmogonyβthe birth of the cosmosβto the exploits...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowA Thousand Mornings
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall - what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Iliad
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017βrevealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)βcritics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Celebrate the genius, passion, and poetry of William Shakespeare with this beautifully bound deluxe edition, featuring his complete plays and poems in one timeless collector's volume. No writer has shaped the English language or the human imagination like William Shakespeare. From the unforgettable tragedies of Hamlet and Macbeth to the wit and romance of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowBlack Sugarcane
Black Sugarcane is a landmark debut collection by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Restless in form and address, these engaging and generous poems ricochet from light to dark, quiet to loud, calm to violence. We meet a loved twin sister as she dives towards the Sacred Centre, a grandmother who knows everything by heart, a shrugging office clerk, and Nafanua herself, an...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a prominent New England family and educated at Amherst Academy and Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson lived most of her life in seclusion, devoted to writing. She...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Aeneid
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic. Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in The Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfil his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowI Still Believe in Miracles
I Still Believe in Miracles is a collection of poetry exploring themes of masculinity, love, grief, and connection. This is the trade debut from Instagram phenomenon Lucas Jones, perfect for fans of yung pueblo, Hussain Manawer, and Whitney Hanson. A collection of powerful contemporary poetry, I Still Believe in Miracles delves deeply into themes of masculinity, love, grief, and connection....Hardback$3500Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid AugustThe Aeneid
The Aeneid by Virgil stands as a monumental work in the annals of literature, a timeless epic that has profoundly influenced Western culture for over two millennia. This exquisite clothbound edition offers a beautiful presentation of Virgil's magnum opus, which not only celebrated the glory of ancient Rome but also explored deep human emotions and experiences. The story follows the...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowNo Good
In summer when I picked dandelionsfor the geriatric guinea pig I changed the world.I killed a weed. I filled a mouth with gold. In this debut poetry collection, Sophie van Waardenberg considers girlhood and grief, love and its loss, distance and the return home, including at its heart a sequence of emotionally raw βCremation Sonnetsβ. In its essence, this collection...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. These travel writings not only chronicle Basho's perilous journeys through Japan, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches showcases Basho's exceptional ability to portray...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Prophet: Popular Penguins
First published in the 1920s, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century. The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement, yet it still continues to inspire people around the world today....Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Reflecting the voices of poets, soldiers, the families they left behind, and their comrades who would never return, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, previously published as In Flanders Fields, is edited with an introduction by George Walter in Penguin Classics. Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowDevotions
New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club Chosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation 'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important,...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Odyssey
An epic journey of adventure, endurance, and the search for home In The Odyssey, Homer crafts one of the oldest and most influential adventure stories in Western literature. The poem follows Odysseus, the cunning king of Ithaca, as he battles gods, monsters, and temptation on his ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. Facing shipwrecks, the wrath of...Hardback$3799Elsewhere:$4099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Divine Comedy
Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition. The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowA Shropshire Lad
A collectible new Penguin series - beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at A. E. Housman's own expense. The collection of lyrical poems became hugely successful following the Second Boer War and World War I, with themes such as nostalgia for one's home and the patriotic celebration of the life...Hardback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTree and Leaf
A new edition of Tolkienβs Tree and Leaf, complete with his rare translation and commentary of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, the Battle of Maldon. Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowInferno
Discover Dante's original Inferno - the inspiration for Dan Brown's new novel - in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of the seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowCrush
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken An Atlantic choice for "Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)" Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$3099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowDarby, Love . . .
Poet Darby Hudson presents an expanded collection of his viral Instagram posts, in which he offers a deeply human glimpse into his mother's unique way of looking at the world, inspiring readers to find joy in every moment.Darby, Love . . .Β is equal parts wonder, chaos, and humanity. It's a conversation between the living and the dead, mom and son,...Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen features the greatest works of Wilfred Owen, the foremost poet of the First World War. This new hardback edition is published in commemoration of the war's end, a conflict that Owen's poetry ensures we shall never forget. "Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the...Hardback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowBeowulf
The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual in its language. Heaney has caught the balance of these brilliantly; he has made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece. Andrew Motion, Financial Times What characterises this Beowulf is its...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the great figures of English Romanticism, Coleridge's poems show diversity and imaginative genius. One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the Rime of the Ancient...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Complete Poems
In 1855, Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful Song of Myself and I Sing the Body...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowGoodbye To All That: Popular Penguins
In 1929, Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life, from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War. Containing memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, Goodbye to All That is a...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAt the Altar of Touch
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity. These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is Neruda's frank, sexual and romantic masterwork. This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Poetry Pharmacy Forever
The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy β the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved series. After the tumult of the last 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 he received from the...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowWild Hope
βBeautiful and upliftingβ Davina McCall βSo inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful.β Lisa Snowdon Uplifting inspiration from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Wish I Knew Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-acceptance, and inspiration on the days we feel worn down, helpless, or...Hardback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThat's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about lifeβs awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book. Elyse Myers is known to her twelve million followers as βThe Internetβs Best Friend,β sharing her relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, body image, and more. Whether sheβs...Hardback$4199Elsewhere:$5299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Iliad
A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin Classics. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's The Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Essential Rumi Revised
The best-selling Rumi book ever is now better than ever! This revised and expanded edition of the comprehensive one-volume edition of Americaβs most popular poet includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks, and 81 new poems never published before. The ecstatic, spiritual poetry of Rumi is more popular than ever, and The Essential Rumi continues to be far and away...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowGilgamesh
Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death, the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Complete English Poems
The complete collection of Donne's poems, including his famous Holy Sonnets, 'The Flea' and 'The Sun Rising'. No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowI Thought We'd Be Famous
I Thought Weβd Be FamousΒ is a line in the sand. It's a look back on Dominicβs days pre chronic illness, and a new life of blood tests and cancer scares. Itβs about the dreams that rusted in the backyard and the ones he ended up living. It's about the guilt in his blood after escaping a life of welfare and...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAnd Still I Rise
Maya Angelou's poetry β lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful β speaks of love, longing, and partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. 'The caged bird sings/ with a fearful trill/ of things unknown/ but longed for still/ and his tune is heard/ on the distant hill/ for the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowe kΕ, nΕ hea koe
The debut collection of poetry from Matariki Bennett (NgΔti Pikiao, NgΔti Whakaue, NgΔti Hinerangi) is a series of goodbyes and attempts to slow the shedding. It's a group of teenagers sparking up as they watch the great pacific garbage patch catapult into space and become a second moon, it's endless conversations with Grandmama about stars, it is the constant rebirth...Paperback$3399Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowJoss: A History
Grace Yee's follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish. In the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo, the remains of more than a thousand 'chinamen' lie interred, many in unmarked graves. Most were sojourners from the Canton region in south China who found themselves unable to return to their homeland. Joss: A History is inspired by the lived experiences...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowLifting the Island
David Eggleton explores the voices of New Zealand, Australia, and Polynesia in his latest collection, Lifting the Island. 'This is vital, elastic, expertly handled language in a Pacific voice of cultural and musical sensibility, poetry to be spoken aloud or in the mind.' β Cilla McQueen, MNZM, and former New Zealand Poet Laureate This own-voices collection is a kind of...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowCollected Poems
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia. For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the...Paperback$4699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowCoffee Days Whiskey Nights
A lot can happen between the first sip of coffee and the last taste of whiskey. Coffee Days, Whiskey Nights is a collection of poetry, prose, and aphorisms that juxtaposes the hopefulness a brand new day can bring with the lingering thoughts that keep us up into the late-night hours. This book takes a look at the way a single...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowFear Stalks the Land!
In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac. This is a document...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Waste Land and Other Poems
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power today.Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Inferno
Journey into Dante's nine circles of Hell in the epic poem, Inferno, with this elegant, unabridged edition featuring the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The Divine Comedy, written in the early fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri, continues to be essential reading for lovers of literature. The Inferno is the first part of Dante's masterpiece, The Divine...Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAriel
The poems in this book, including many of her best known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy, and Fever 103, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Sylvia Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. If the poems are despairing, vengeful, and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Elder Edda
A new translation of one of the literary wonders of the medieval world and the greatest source of knowledge of Viking lore in existence. Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient eraβthe giant-slaying Thor, the doomed VΓΆlsung...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the twenty-four circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damnedβfrom heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals, and seducersβwho tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowLyrical Ballads
A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads is edited with a note on the text by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Classics. Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowJabberwocky and Other Nonsense
The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowPoems of Parenting
A must-have book for all parents, this illustrated collection of tender, funny, radically honest poems about parenthood, based on a series of popular Instagram posts, is the perfect baby shower or Motherβs Day gift. Modern parenthood can feel indescribable. This poignant collection of poetry and art chronicles the ups and downs of a rollercoaster ride that every parent will recognize....Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Collected Poems
Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards - Robert Graves A wonderful collection of Robert Frost's writing. No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as 'the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by T.S. Eliot, he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowDoggedly Onward
Doggedly Onward is the ultimate Pam Ayres collection, showcasing Britain's favourite poet's lifetime of work that stretches back over more than 50 years. 'Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life.' The Sunday Times Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime bringing joy to the nation with her poetry,...Hardback$5400Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Odyssey
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles. A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Prophet
My all-time favourite collection of poems . . . Gibran's poetry always roots me in my humanity. --Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey, The Sun and Her Flowers, and Home Body This stunning new hardcover edition features a full linen case, copper stamping, turquoise gilded edges, and coloured endpapers. It is one of the...Hardback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMay You Always Know
From the author of the beloved international bestseller You Hung the Moon comes a stunning gift book full of hopes and dreams for children. You won't always get it right And mistakes aren't always wrong. Life is full of learning, Gaining wisdom is lifelong. A beautiful book detailing in prose the things a parent always wants their child to know...Hardback$1999Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowHome
From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems "the bees aren't going to go away but they are going to change with you sometimes they will be chaotic sometimes they will rest sometimes they will give you sweet honey and sometimes they will remind...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowEssentials
Essentials by David Whyte is a masterful collection of poetry that immerses the reader in the very essence of lived experience. These poems traverse the tapestry of human life, capturing moments of profound beauty and raw emotion. Through the subtle shifts of daily life, the transformative power of changing seasons, and the inevitable cycles of joy and sorrow, Whyte's verses...Hardback$3500Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Complete Poems
In her introduction, Janet Gezari discusses issues of dating and authenticity that arise with BrontΓ«'s poems, and the ways in which the Gondal poems relate to the lost prose narratives on the same subject. The poems of Emily Jane BrontΓ« are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Canterbury Tales
In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Iliad
Discover and treasure one of the greatest war stories of all time with this luxurious edition of Homer's first great epic, The Iliad. Find yourself swept right into the emotion of the action and characters, including Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth, as they endure the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. This...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow