Poetry by individual poets

A variety of poems on various subject, from love to animals and controversial subjects.

In her debut collection of poems, Dana Stringer pulls no punches crisscrossing the sacred territory of a complex church culture where some things are permitted, other things are judged, and everything else is swept under the rug.

The debut pamphlet by Rachel Piercey, 2008 winner of the prestigious Newdigate Prize, previously won by Oscar Wilde, James Fenton and Andrew Motion.

Luke Kennard's Planet Shaped Horse is an unhinged blackcomedy poemplay from one of contemporary poetry's most unique voices.

The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison.

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 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 .