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Emily Dickinson
A landmark edition of Emily Dickinson’s verse.
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William Blake
A beautiful cloth-bound edition of William Blake's Songs of Innocence, delicately illustrated with his exquisite designs, and accompanied by an introduction to his life and work.
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Homer
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Emily Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
Homer, Emily Wilson (trans.)
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s nimble gallop and brings an ancient epic to new life.
Pablo Neruda
The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. His third book, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada…
Audre Lorde
Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde’s most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary…
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Charles Bukowski
A selection of the best poetry from America’s most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski.
T. S. Eliot, Júlia Sardà (illus.)
A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot's beloved cat poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containing enchanting new colour illustrations by Julia Sarda.
Virgil, David West (trans.)
Virgil’s Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western life and culture.
John Milton
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.
Roger McGough
The collected works of 'the patron saint of poetry', Roger McGough
For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate and ever-original poetry…
Emily Dickinson stands as one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery…
William Shakespeare
This title collects sonnets of Shakespeare’s that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. It also includes the sonnet…
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti’s daring narrative poem about sexuality and sisterhood.
John Keats
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets.
Lewis Carroll
Collects together the range of the author’s poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. This title also includes: The Walrus and the Carpenter , The Mock Turtle’s Song…
A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of a revolutionary publication by one of Britain’s most important artists.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The perfect gift for the Edgar Allan Poe fan, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe is an elegant edition boasting the entire Poe catalog.
Louise Gluck
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
Mary Oliver
Devotions is the definitive collection of beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver's best work, chosen by the author herself from work spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates morning, in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected backlist.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates love, life and beauty in a collection published for the first time in the UK, along with selected backlist.
Sylvia Plath
Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath’s mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.
Dr Maya Angelou
As the world celebrates and reflects on the beautiful life of Maya Angelou, Virago presents an updated collection of her works of poetry, collected together for the first time.
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Seamus Heaney
A singular, accessible selection of Heaney’s work, for new and younger readers and for schools - now in paperback.
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved British poets of all time. Richly melodious and vividly expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying…
‘Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door’ Emily Dickinson The very best of Emily Dickinson’s poems in a beautiful gift edition
Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
A dazzling, dashing collection from the Poet Laureate.
A complete, annotated edition of all Shakespeare’s non-dramatic verse, including the SONNETS, VENUS AND ADONIS and THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, with an introduction by Helen Vendler. From the EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY.
Rumi
Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal…
A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It describes how the…
Deals with literature’s grandest evocation of life’s journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. This title presents you with the author’s best-loved poem…
In her collection Dog Songs, Pulitzer prize-winning poet Mary Oliver celebrates of the unique bond between human and dog. Published for the first time in the UK, this is an…
John Forbes
Collected Poems brings together all John Forbes's published poems, both in books and literary magazines. The volume includes a Foreword by Gig Ryan and an Introduction by Don Anderson.
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Features poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity. This title includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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‘How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?’ A selection of Blake’s most haunting verse, including ‘The Songs of Innocence and Experience’…
Judith Wright
This collection celebrates the poetry of Judith Wright, whose poetic purpose has remained firm and increasingly distinctive in an era of uncertainty and compromise. Wright was the winner of the…
Oliver de la Paz
Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry
For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino…
David Brooks
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career
Sappho
150 years after Homer’s Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine…
John Donne
From joyful poems such as The Flea , which transforms the image of a louse into the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, the author breathed vigour into poetry by drawing…
Robert Browning
Presents a selection of poems by the author. This book contains such poems as My Last Duchess , Fra Lippo Lippi and The Pied Piper of Hamelin . It displays…
Walt Whitman
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…
This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works. Featuring insights about nature, love, life, death and immortality, these poems are among the best loved in English literature.
Allen Ginsberg
‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked’ Beat movement icon and visionary poet, the author broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This…
The Poet Laureate’s selection of Sylvia Plath’s poems - now in a unique Liberty design edition.
Lesbia Harford
Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems display a candour and dynamism unusual for her time and place
