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Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side…
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Fiona Waters
This lavishly illustrated collection of 366 animal poems - one for every day of the year - ranges from unforgettable classics to contemporary works from around the world, including poetry…
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Various
Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities…
From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong- a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through…
A deeply researched treasury of fairy poems from across the centuries and around the world.
Elves, changelings, leprechauns, pixies, brownies and sprites; England's Queen Mab, France's Melusine, Scandinavian nixies and…
Ana Sampson
The first illustrated book of cat poems. Features sixty poems by the world’s most loved poets in celebration of the world’s most loved pet. Featuring the work of John Keats…
Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
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The ‘invigorating’, ‘stupendous’ and ‘exhilarating’ guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers
‘It is hard to know how it could possibly be…
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Anthony Thwaite
A collection of verse that contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards.
First Penguin volumeOf best Japanese haikuVivid translations
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for…
Various Poets
Now in paperback, a powerful, wide-ranging anthology of international poetry from the 1939-45 conflict.
