Poetry by individual poets

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

Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem.

A hilarious and moving poetry collection.

From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019Shortlisted for the T.

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.

Poetry Book Society Wild Card Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets'It's thrilling to discover such a staggeringly self-assured debut, to feel in the unmistakable presence of The Real Thing' Kaveh AkbarThe Yemeni American poet Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival.

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

With a preface by Elizabeth Macneal and original illustrations by Laurence Housman.

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

A new collection from Glyn Maxwell - one of the great poetic stylists of the era, and one of its leading dramatic voices - is always a cause for celebration.

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.

A brilliant, moving book .

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.

The Aeneid - thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure - has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.

Discover more about the heroes of The Odyssey, now a major film directed by Christopher Nolan.

A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry.

Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as 'The Lamb', 'The Chimney-Sweeper' and 'The Tiger'.

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.

'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.

The Australian poet John Kinsella's vivid and urgent new collection addresses the crisis of being that currently afflicts us: Kinsella addresses a situation where the creations of the human imagination, the very means by which we extend our empathies into the world - art, music and philosophy - suddenly find themselves in a world that not only denies their importance, but can sometimes seem to have no use for them at all.

'Wry, sharp-eyed and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.

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

Auslöser eines großen Theaterskandals und Reiseführer durch ein unbekanntes Universum: Roland Barthes ist in seinem Racine-Buch als ingeniöser Analytiker von Macht- und Affektstrukturen neu zu entdecken.

Jericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important voices in US poetry, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Kathleen Jamie's Selected Poems gathers together some of the finest work by one of the foremost poets currently writing in English.

'The godfather of British performance poetry' - Daily TelegraphThe Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades - and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers.

'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful .

Richard Osmond won the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses.

Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms.

John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement.

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime.

A single book-length poem, The River in the Sky sees Clive James face up to his final moments of life with all the wisdom, lightly-worn erudition and good humour that defined his extraordinary career.

Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever.

The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event.

Richard Meier's first collection of poetry, Misadventure, won many admirers for its wry, wise and sharp-eyed insight into the minutiae of daily life.

Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling.

'A sweet winter light blushedas Pablo Picasso walked his dogunder the cypress treesand the bell of the old chapel guessed at the hour.

It is a snowy London day in The Great Winter of 1683.

'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

Thomas Hardy saw himself, first and foremost, as a poet, and he wrote poetry throughout his prolific and acclaimed novel-writing years before announcing in 1896 that he would no longer write novels, much to the astonishment of his worldwide readership.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading.

It Says Here is Sean O'Brien's follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa, and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor.

Europa, Sean O'Brien's ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book.

Shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers' WeekThrough four highly acclaimed collections, Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of the younger generation of Irish poets.