Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

A flurry of festive verse, We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Other Festive Poems is a collection selected and intricately, beautifully illustrated by Chris Riddell, the beloved author and illustrator behind Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles.

In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street.

Ian Duhig's effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty years.

'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising - the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem.

A hilarious and moving poetry collection.

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Oaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in human imagination and language for millennia.

Rachel Long's much-anticipated debut collection of poems, My Darling from the Lions, explores shame, love and healing through her intimate poetic voice.

This uplifting anthology contains classic and modern poems to galvanize and inspire you which are brought to life with exquisite, intricate artwork.

Selected Poems collects the work of one of our foremost lyric poets, John Glenday.

A powerful collection from the T.

Hotel Raphael, Rachael Boast's fourth collection, charts a journey through heat, drought and pain, and describes not only the reality of chronic illness, but living with it at a time of global crisis.

A brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language.

Winner of the 2021 Highland Book PrizeJen Hadfield's new collection is an astonished beholding of the wild landscape of her Shetland home, a tale of hard-won speech, and the balm of the silence it rides upon.

A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment.

A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRYThe Tradition by Jericho Brown, is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while revelling in a celebration of contradiction.

Denise Riley has pursued her singular path with a determined disregard for poetic fashion: a poet of immense musical gifts and formal skill, as happy in traditional forms as experimental, her non-alignment with any 'tribe' has led to a rich and various poetry that, while densely allusive and intellectually uncompromising, remains emotionally open towards the reader at the most profound level.

A stunning book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices.

Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today.

First published in 1909, Stein's work Tender Buttons is a modernist classic and a wonderful example of her thought-provoking and highly original style of writing.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of O Pioneers!

Self-depricating, bitingly satirical, and surprisingly thought-provoking, Dorothy Parker's first collection of poetry comments on love and the relations between men and women with quick wit and lyrical verse.

A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was the first to use his poetry to reflect the real daily lives of average Black people.

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"e;The Little Ghost - And Other Poems on Grief and Healing"e; is a collection of poems by Edna St.

Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945) was an American playwright, poet, and Japanese art expert.

"e;She Never Will be All Mine - Poems of the Heart"e; is a collection of classic love poetry written by American poet Edna St.

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"e;Afternoon on a Hill - Love Letters to Nature"e; is a beautiful collection of poetry by Edna St.

"e;The Earth Gods"e; is a 1931 work by poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran.

"e;A Book of Americans"e; is a collection of poems concerning important figures in early American history, written by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Kipling's poem 'The Dead King' was written as a eulogy to King Edward VII as a wise devoted monarch who had served his people well.

Grappling with nature, religion, violence and politics, poems of lucid intensity and astonishing power from three remarkable British poetsGeoffrey Hill (1932-2016) was often considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation.

Ernest Hemingway was one of America's best known and most beloved authors.

The Prophet' is a truly ground breaking inspirational book of poetry consisting of a series of prose poems.

New Hampshire is Robert Frost's poetic tour de force.

While 'A Boy's Will' informed the world that a new talent was on the horizon, 'North of Boston' proclaimed loudly that that talent had arrived.

Mountain Interval' includes two of Robert Frost's best known and most powerful poems: "e;A Road Not Taken"e; and "e;Out Out-.

Collected here are 98 poems that made Robert Frost's reputation as the greatest American Poet of his or any other time.

A Boy's Will' is the poetry collection that put the world on notice that Robert Frost was going to be an important Poet.

The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson.

Women Are People!

Are Women People?

On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.