Poetry by individual poets

One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'So the company of men led a careless life,All was well with them: until One beganTo encompass evil, an enemy from hell.

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me.

A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.

A major rediscovery and reevaluation of a lost strand of English literature from one of today's most brilliant scholars.

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008.

Roald Dahl and Quention Blake meets Tim Burton in sassy poet Laura Dockrill's edgy and hilarious taleYou might have known somebody like Ugly Shy Girl once .

Through the fads and fashions of the last thirty years Brian Patten has remained true to his own personal vision of poetry.

A reproduction in one unique volume of three of Agatha Christie's rarest and most sought-after books - Star Over Bethlehem, The Road of Dreams and Poems.

A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.

This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo's supernatural encounter with angels - who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes.

A superb distillation of the wisdom of one of Britain's most admired writers on the human condition.

Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems.

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho - a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die.

'The characters are funny, endearing and completely original.

The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.

Brian Patten is renowned as an accessible and popular poet.

Darkness Will Bind Them.

A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today.

Many make the mistake of thinking because a thing is common, it is probably harmless.

Beyond Tuesday Morning by New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is a moving story of second chances, faith after loss, and the healing power of love--perfect for readers who cherish redemptive contemporary Christian romance.

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.

Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do.

Widely celebrated as the author of the worldwide bestselling novels A SUITABLE BOY and AN EQUAL MUSIC, Vikram Seth is also a highly acclaimed poet with a substantial body of work.

The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.

'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mindThat I am forever waking in a lost country.

Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life.

In this debut collection of poetry, The Mother Self guides readers along the raw and transformative path of early motherhood.

From the author of The Crystal Code, comes Luna - the positive catalyst for change that we all need.

The perfect gift for fans of Florence + the Machine, featuring lyrics, never-before-seen poetry, and scrapbook entries from the award-winning singer An alchemy of memoir and imagination Waterstones NewsletterSongs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later.

Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry.

As Far as I Know is a wonderful new book of poems by Roger McGough, the nation's favourite poetTake comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger McGough's new book of poems shows him writing as fluently and inventively as ever.

A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents.

This is not the time for adultery.

'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea.

'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or late;They cannot choose.

I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America.

The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic: a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories.

'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem.

'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy'McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' The Times_______________For fifty years, Roger McGough has delighted readers with poetry that is at once playful and poignant, intimate and universal.

Over the course of his career, Tomas Transtr mer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential global voices.

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most beloved and defining central myths.

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary.

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silverBeautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.

'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided .

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!