POETRY

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us.In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' "...Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven,...

#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;' Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions...

'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the...

Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between...

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken An Atlantic choice for "Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)" Since winning the 2004 Yale...

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new...

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day,...

Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of...

A collection of Michael Longley's greatest poems, spanning an extraordinary career of sixty years as one of the Belfast triumverate, alongside Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon'One of the world's greats'...

Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.Translated by Frank O'ConnorIllustrations by Brian Bourke.

With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them 'Do not go gentle into that...

Originally published in 1918 by the Talbot Press in Dublin, two years after his execution by the British Government for his involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising, Some Poems of...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.This edition of Homer's epic, Iliad, is from the Alexander Pope Translation, tells the story of the final year of the Trojan War. First written...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRumi's verses have been a balm for readers' souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian...

With an Introduction by Paul Wright.'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his...

In this delightful collection, some of Ireland's most celebrated writers capture the joy and pain of romantic love.Featuring Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, George 'AE' Russell and Ethna Carbery, Thomas...

This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems carefully curated by the host of the internationally acclaimed Poetry Unbound podcast. With an observant eye, Padraig O Tuama shares an...

'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection...

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his...

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book ClubChosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation'No matter where one starts reading,...

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade...

This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as...

In this powerful collection of poetry, Michael Murphy examines such themes as identity, sexuality, love, gay-rights, religion and mythology. Though challenging, his work remains accessible and relatable with a deft...

'Nothing short of dazzling' - Alex TurnerDr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain...

WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDPaul Durcan has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for 30 years and his poetry has acquired a huge international...

The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy: the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved seriesAfter the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to...

Geraldine Mills is one of the finest and most unique poets to have emerged in Ireland in recent decades. When the Light includes 124 poems selected from her previous poetry...

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club"No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant...

A Guardian Book of the YearMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation -...

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the...

'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation...

James Joyce (1882-1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction, and his experimental use of language and stream of consciousness continues to captivate, intrigue, and influence readers and writers. Universally known...

New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007), concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her...

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a...

Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Rupi Kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers....

'And just like that, like a simpleneighbourhood event, a miracle istaking place.''If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,' Mary Oliver once...