Selected Poems by James Fenton
Category: Poetry & Plays
Listen to what they did.Don't listen to what they said.What was written in bloodHas been set up in lead.--from Blood and Lead The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political p ...Show more
Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems by Brian Bilston
Category: Poetry & Plays
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Category: Poetry & Plays
Informed by the death of her beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood and its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy.
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
Category: Poetry & Plays
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenro ...Show more
Greek Poems to the Gods - Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell
Category: Poetry & Plays
The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally important collections have not been readily accessibl ...Show more
This Was Meant To Find You (When You Needed It Most) by Charlotte Freeman
Category: Poetry & Plays
If you are hurting, healing, feeling, letting someone go, or starting a new chapter and learning to open your heart back up again, this book was meant to find you when you needed it most.
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Category: Poetry & Plays
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most ...Show more
I Wish I Had a Wookiee - And Other Poems for Our Galaxy by Ian Doescher; Tim Budgen (Illustrator)
Category: Poetry & Plays
Inspired by the beloved world of Star Wars, this collection of over 75 whimsical and original poems is a celebration of childhood, creativity, imagination, and the early years of Star Wars fandom. In "My Pet AT-AT," a ten-year-old dreams of playing hide and seek and fetch with an AT-AT. In "Dad's Luke S ...Show more
Exactly As I Am by Rae White
Category: Poetry & Plays
A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, discrimination, and euphoria. Let me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways. Rae White's much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to their lived experience as a non-binary transgender person. Th ...Show more
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney; Jonathan Galassi (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays
This is the first ever collected volume of Seamus Heaney's translations from languages including Old and Middle Irish and English, Medieval Italian, Classical Greek and Latin and Modern Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, German and Greek.
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
Category: Poetry & Plays
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language - of speaking - to foster selfhood, articulate injust ...Show more
Five Creepy Crawly Poems by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry & Plays
Five Creepy Crawly Poems is for children of all ages, especially those who like centipedes, snails, spiders and slugs. And fleas. And flies. Includes poems by Leonard Clark, Richard Edwards, Phyllis Flowerdew, Christina Rossetti and William Roscoe. Illustrated in colour throughout by Ruth Green.