Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeWinner of the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full CollectionShortlisted for the 2015 T.

A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track,A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet,A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap, A wrecking ground, that s Shingle Street.

Every once in a while, a new poet appears who makes us feel that the contours of contemporary poetry have been significantly changed.

Human Work was written while cooking.

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014*PBS Recommendation 2014* When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home.

'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing.

In the dice cup, then, life becomes not a design but a wager; not an adventure but a game Brimming with brio and brilliance, John Fuller s latest collection comprises exquisite philosophical arguments, dream visions, aphorisms, precise portraits, colourful fables and tableaux of life.

Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, in Love, Of a Kind Dennis brings awkwardness, pain and intimacy together in an inimitable and pithy way.

To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most.

'Making is our defence against the dark.

In her first collection since the Costa-winning Tilt, Jean Sprackland looks back at endings and beginnings: the end of a life, or of a marriage; old homes lived in and left, new homes discovered.

In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called G , into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age.

It has been over a decade since Henry Shukman published his award-winning first collection, In Doctor No s Garden.

Shortlisted for the 2014 T.

James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions.

The second collection of original verse by the maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.

With the publication of his first book, HOUSEHOLDER, Gerard Woodward emerged as one of the most talented and unusual new poets of the 1990s.

Liu Xiaobo died in 2017, the first Nobel Laureate to do so in detention since 1935.

Survivors is William Peskett's second book in the Secker & Warburg Poets series.

William Peskett belongs to the brilliant generation of young poets from Northen Ireland who broke through in the 1970s.

The Grey Among The Green is John Fuller's eleventh collection, and his first since Selected Poems 1954-1982.

A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain.

In The Four Elements, poet and philosopher John O'Donohue draws upon his Celtic heritage and the love of his native landscape, the west of Ireland, to weave together a tapestry of beautifully evoked images of nature.

Paul Durcan's twenty-second collection finds Monsieur le Po te on the road in Paris, New York City, Chicago, Brisbane, and Achill Island, meditating upon the sanctuary of home and what it means to feel truly at home.

The long poem at the centre of John Hartley Williams' new collection is a dramatic monologue narrated by a laconic, possibly lamed, forest dweller, a lowly crewmember on a barge travelling an unnamed waterway.

From memories of childhood and personal loss to the quiet celebration of a lover's navigational skills, from meditations on nature and sexuality to the fantasy world of aquarium fish, the poems in A NORMAL SKIN cover a wide range: lyrical in tone, and highly visual, they express once again the poet's sense of wonder at the world, while exploring some new preoccupations, including love and identity the tension between masking and self-revelation, and the writer's pleasure at returning to Scotland after a long absense.

Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets.

This volume contains the complete poetical works of Rupert Brooke.

Collecting poetry written in the years 2011-2014, Sentenced to Life sees Clive James look back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty.

This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.

Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long.

Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices.

Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes.

Billy Collins is one of the world's most popular poets.

Sean O'Brien is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted English poets now writing, and as a leading poet-critic.

'Look - here's a poet of ferocious invention, a breathtaking wit that ushers us to epiphanies of grief and laughter, an encyclopaedic knowledge of hip ephemera that's never merely knowing, and a playful ear - which is, I note, an anagram of Paul Farley .

Colette Bryce's first collection is a book of songs: songs of kinship and desire, Ireland and Spain, of myth and belief.

These poems unfold with a supernatural intensity, alternately dark and celebratory, that set them apart from other treatments of the subject.

The Red-Funnelled Boat charts a course through richly varied territory, from theological obsession to the paranoid fantasies of the armchair footballer, the vernacular hell of mental illness and the author's lyrical yearning for the elsewheres of the Hebrides and the cinematic Midwest.

While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O'Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is sounded more openly than ever before.

Conjure is Michael Donaghy's third collection, and his most accomplished to date, displaying the same trademark elegance, sleight of hand and philosophical wit that have established his reputation as a 'poet's poet'.

Collecting verse written in the years 2008-2011, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower sees Clive James approach his later years with the same technical versatility, emotional poignancy and lightly-worn erudition as defined his career.

Alice Duer Miller's heart-warming novel written entirely in verse.

For most of us Christmas is the season of huge helpings of good food, good drink, and with luck, good cheer, as the rituals of cracker-pulling, present-giving and happy or sulphurous family reunions fizzle and bang through the long afternoon.

In MASCULINITY, Robert Crawford elegantly explores many aspects of that troubling concept, from imperial militarism to his own experiences as father, husband, and son.

Poetry of the Second World War brings to light a neglected chapter in world literature.

Since the publication of his first book in 1967, Paul Durcan has made satirical, celebratory and extraordinarily moving poetry out of his country's fortunes and misfortunes.

Described in the Telegraph as 'Huddersfield's Melville', Milner Place has spent much of his life sailing the seven seas as a skipper of a trading boat, while also writing beautifully crafted poetry.