Poetry by individual poets

The Lotus Sutra is regarded as one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts.

This unique collection presents the verse, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks.

Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan.

From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner.

Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song.

Manhae (1879-1944), or Han Yongun, was a Korean Buddhist (Son) monk during the era of Japanese colonial occupation (1910-1945).

Women played major roles in the history of Buddhist China, but given the paucity of the remaining records, their voices have all but faded.

"e;The Great Way is not difficult / for those who have no preferences.

Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during Chinas Tang dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China.

Revered by many--especially His Holiness the Dalai Lama--as the very embodiment of altruism, the late Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen devoted his life to the development of bodhicitta--the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.

This collection of Norman MacCaig's poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work.

';Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings.

Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the ';talk poem.

An Irish Times Bestseller: a new selection of Paul Durcan's finest poems.

A beautiful gift for Christmas, this superb selection of writing, by celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, opens with his enchanting story A Child's Christmas in Wales.

Just when you thought things couldn t get any cuter .

There's a pyjama-clad woman from Brum,She's a mostly-happy (sometimes-snappy) mum,She's written some verse- it's a little perverse -and she hopes you find it side-splitting-ly fun!

THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE AUTHORONE BILLION COPIES SOLDApart from being a prolific novelist, Danielle Steel writes poetry.

A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.

my people Oodgeroo s writing has a unique place in Australian literature.

2026 Hall of Fame Honouree of The Luminas national honours program (presented by Diversity Arts Australia and Media Diversity Australia)Oodgeroo s writing has a unique place in Australian literature.

'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn BraggIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature.

A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul.

The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist.

For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985).

The highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeRain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by The Rumpus as "e;a master of musicality and enlightening allusions.

An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as "e;a seduction by way of small astonishments"e;Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is "e;an original in Eliot's sense of the word.

'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' Ocean Vuong'Radical .

A celebration of deep love .

The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly There is a lot one can learn from the matured butterflies among us.

The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014.

Here, for the first time, is a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted.

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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.

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).

In 2002 Vernon Scannell wrote the following: 'It has been my firm belief since I first began to attempt the art of poetry that the making of a poem should be, as Yeats asserted, a difficult business.

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

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.

In Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart's poem, Herbert White.

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems.

All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams.

Lawrence Durrell's success as a novelist may have tended to obscure his achievement as a poet and in poetry.

To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing.

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601.

The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur.

The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended.