Poetry by individual poets

Shortlisted for the 2011 TS Eliot Prize Poetry Book Society Recommendation What happens if, when the angel arrives with his message, no one's at home?

The bilingual e-book with audio edition of this book presents Tomas Transtromer's Swedish texts from Dikter och prosa 1954-2004 (Albert Bonniers Forlag, 2011) with Robin Fulton's English translations from the 2011 expanded edition of his New Collected Poems.

The malarkey is over in the back of the car.

Shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize.

Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to Tell Me Lies (2008).

Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic.

Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

In this, her first poetry collection since the award-winning Countries of the Body, Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time.

Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage.

Menna Elfyn's dual language Welsh-English collectionMurmuris full of murmurings, such as the need to walk the earth as if theres a baby sleeping next door.

'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little.

'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little.

Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house.

The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades.

Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world.

A best of R.

A revolutionary voice in English verse, and a much loved and celebrated lyric poet.

Renowned for his wicked wit and bons mots, Wilde also had a deep understanding of the human condition - as revealed with moving simplicity in THE BALLARD OF READING GOAL.

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems.

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint.

Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.

Skelton is probably the greatest unknown poet of English literature.

The archetypal Restoration rake, Rochester wrote poems of love, debauchery, erotic obsession and impotence full of honesty and raw power.

A selection of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry, edited by Martin Dodsworth

Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.

Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "e;Metamorphoses"e;.

Best known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subtle lyric harmony.

One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.

Includes the ever popular "e;If"e;, along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry.

Selected verse from the Iliad and the Odyssey, edited by David Hopkins.

Both major novelist and major poet, with a distinctive off-beat and intensely personal style, Hardy is a modern writer born out of his time.

An elegant and witty writer, poet laureate from 1668, Dryden was on of the major dramatists, critics and poets of his age.

The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596.

A selection of poems by George Crabbe, edited by Stephen Derry

A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce

One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England.

Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere.

A selection of poetry by Lord Byron, a poet considered amongst the most treasured and influential in English literature.

'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William BlakeWilliam Blake was a poet and artist.

American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers.

Critic, essayist, educator and poet, author of The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach, The Forsaken Merman and other popular poems.

Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R.

The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published - a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment'One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies'The epic, beautiful poem Rubaiyat is widely attributed to Omar Khayyam.

Coloured Views is a compilation of the lived Jamaican experience in poetry.

This recent collection of the author's poetry captures the innate hunger within to contemplate truth, separate fact from fiction, to view truth as supremely precious.