Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.

In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with compassion, wisdom and wit.

Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind.

Salt is a distinctive new assembly of poems by the multi-award winning David Harsent.

Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three poems of startling intensity, ambition and length.

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right.

Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain.

**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR>The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living.

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYPostcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book.

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it.

After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I.

The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers.

Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible.

This edition brings together A Scattering and Anniversary into a single book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five.

Frolic and Detour is a book that is at once engaged and engaging, woven with subtle threads of history and geography that represent not only our profound interconnectedness but the fragility of those very connections.

In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine drew from six decades of poetry to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered.

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest.

WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers.

Andrew Motion's expansive new collection is built around two long poems that form its opening and close.

This is the End of Days.

In 2013, Seamus Heaney met with Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis in Dublin.

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W.

In a period when nations are retracting within their borders, the vivid and intricate poems of Jamie McKendrick's new collection Anomaly are especially timely, and speak of a fragile legacy of openness and interconnectedness.

Lavinia Greenlaw's latest collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'.

For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets.

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family.

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013.

Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern day William Blake.

'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is ridingthrough the space between one world and another .

Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010.

'The most popular English poet since Larkin.

Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013.

Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry.

Shortlisted for the 2016 T.

Thom Gunn's controlled used of form and the metaphysical was in evidence from his first collection, Fighting Terms, in 1954, which was widely regarded - perhaps not entirely accurately - as a contributor to 'The Movement' and the opposition to modernism.

Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry.

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'.

New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T.

The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that 'belong to one another', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone.

Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness.

Happiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from the award-winning Jack Underwood.

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' (The Times).

Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry scene.

This third edition of Alan Brownjohn's Collected Poems was first published by the Enitharmon Press in 2006.

'He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.

When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.

This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!