Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Candlestick Press Ten Poems from Wales
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£7.41
Union Square & Co. Poems of Love
Book SynopsisThis stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 love poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Love will be counterbalanced by Poems of Hatea collection of poems on wrath, jealousy, revenge, and hatredwhich is publishing simultaneously.
£7.13
Profile Books Ltd Cat Poems
Book SynopsisYou Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty & a promise of my love. -James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.Trade ReviewAn easy answer to the question of the stocking filler, Cat Poems certainly appeals to those of us with a special affection for the furry felines * The Skinny *
£9.49
Candlestick Press Ten Poems for Autumn
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£7.41
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Apes to Zebras An AZ of Shape Poems
Book SynopsisThis gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone.Book band: Dark BlueTrade ReviewAn array of wonderful creatures feature in this captivating series of alphabet shape poems. From dinosaurs that are too big to fit on the page to mosquitos that are coming to get you, there's something to inform and delight children of all ages in this beautifully produced book. * The Guardian's Best New Children's Books *This is an inspiring collection that really highlights how fascinating shape poems can be – and the imagination is your only limit when deciding how to set out your own poem. I love this book and hope it really enthuses children for poetry – it certainly deserves to. * Parents in Touch *Featuring a full alphabetical array from the extraordinary and the exotic to the extinct and the non-existent from well-liked and recognised poets Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson & Roger Stevens, this will amaze, amuse and appeal to classes throughout the primary school and have them eagerly wanting to write their own shape poems. * The Reader Teacher, @MrEPrimary *Apes to Zebras is eye-catchingly illustrated in bright colours with trailing, undulating text forming the shapes of the beasts. And as the poems are short and snappy, the book is ideal for sharing with EYFS children. * QA Nursery *This is a book that will set children off on their own explorations of how words and images can be interlinked. * Brian Moses, Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel Blog *Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson and Roger Stevens have created a truly memorable poetry book in 'Apes to Zebras'. They have selected almost laboratory like, perfect words with which to sculpt each animal focus into an image. Every subject is analysed, realised and almost eulogised in its own beautiful poem. * Bookwagon *There is a beautiful simplicity in the text of the poems that allows you to appreciate the usage of words as a clear illustrative form... A fabulous resource for both home and school with tips for experimenting with your own shape poems. Enjoy! * Philippa Rae, Kidscene *It has an immediate pleasure and impact and then the little details start to draw attention to themselves and my grin just gets wider and wider, marvelling at the sheer invention on display. And isn't this what a great reading experience should be like? I want to put them all up over my classroom! * The Book Blog, North Somerset Teachers' Book Award *This beautifully illustrated book provides a new take on shape poems – which describe an object and are shaped the same as the object they describe – playing around with their form to great effect. * The Teacher Magazine *Don't miss this book of shape or 'concrete' animal poems by this accomplished triumvirate of children's poets. It is a wonderfully inventive A-Z, both restrained and lively, where every letter has at least one animal 'shape' poem. * Children's Books Ireland *
£13.49
Pan Macmillan A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse
Book SynopsisLennox Robinson was born in County Cork in 1886. He was a prominent playwright and theatre producer with a long association with Dublin's Abbey Theatre. His support of Irish nationalism came from watching productions at the theatre and he often wrote about Irish politics and conflict in his plays.Robinson wrote and edited several books including The Oxford Book of Irish Verse and an autobiography, Curtain Up in 1942. He died in 1958.
£10.44
Pan Macmillan A Year of Scottish Poems
Book SynopsisA Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems to keep you company for every day of the year.Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar – from Burns Night to Hogmanay – these poems are powerful, thoughtful and uplifting.Compiled by Gaby Morgan, with an introduction from the National Poet for Scotland, Makar Jackie Kay, this collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry including Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Mackay Brown, Sir Walter Scott, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Nan Shepherd, Stewart Conn, Kathleen Jamie, Elma Mitchell, John Rice, Muriel Spark, Iain Crichton Smith, Julia Donaldson, Kate Clanchy, Carol Ann Duffy and many more to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!
£11.69
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Knitting
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Home
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£7.41
Pan Macmillan Poems of the Sea
Book SynopsisPoems of the Sea is an anthology of classic poetry that celebrates the sea; from the power of a stormy ocean to ships and sailors and beaches strewn with shells. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by author Adam Nicolson.For generations, poets have taken inspiration from ocean mists and rugged coastlines to conjure up adventures on the high seas and joyous days at the seaside. From Emily Dickinson’s morning dog walks by the shore, to the river running through Sara Teasdale’s sunny valley, and from Walt Whitman’s fish-filled forests, to the silent ships passing in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s dark ocean, there are poems here for every reader to enjoy.
£10.44
Batsford 100 Poems to Grow Your Confidence
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£11.69
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Sisters
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Christmas Presents: Ten Poems to Give and Receive
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£7.41
Methuen Publishing Ltd Up the Line to Death War Poets 191418 War Poets
Book SynopsisAn anthology of the poetry of World War I, this collection is more concerned with the War than with poetry, and as such it is a book with a theme. There are 72 poets represented here - including Wilfred Owen - of whom 21 died in action. Many of the poems have notes and introductions.
£10.44
SmithDoorstop Books Forty Years in The North
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£10.44
Pan Macmillan Poems for Love
Book SynopsisA complex and truly timeless emotion, love – whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation – has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verses of outstanding beauty.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by bestselling author, and Romantic Novelists’ Association prize-winner, Joanna Trollope.There has always been love, and we have been writing poetry about it for over 4,000 years. From John Donne and William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, the very best classic love poetry is collected in this elegant anthology, Poems for Love. That we still read and enjoy these heartfelt poems today is a testament both to their individual genius and to the enduring power of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction by Joanna Trollope Chapter - 1: What is Love? Chapter - 2: Madam, Will You Walk? - Longing and Courting Chapter - 3: If All the World and Love Were Young - It must be love Chapter - 4: Delight in Disorder - Kissing etc Chapter - 5: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds - Love & marriage Chapter - 6: My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close - Lost love
£10.44
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Running
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£7.41
Tapsalteerie Devour Everything
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£10.80
Candlestick Press Ten Poems from the Coast
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£7.41
Faber & Faber The Forward Book of Poetry 2024
Book SynopsisThis is poetry for our times. The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers a vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.
£9.49
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Chocolate
£6.95
Faber & Faber The Forward Book of Poetry 2025
Book SynopsisThe judges of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry comprising the poets Alycia Pirmohamed, Vanessa Kisuule, Daniel Sluman and Jane Clarke, and chaired by actor and comedian Craig Charles read hundreds of recent books and individual poems before arriving at this anthology. Their selections celebrate the diversity and innovation of poetry today, offering readers explorations of society, culture and personal experience.The Forward Prizes are the most influential awards for new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. This selection combines fresh voices with familiar names, making the book essential reading for seasoned poetry enthusiasts and new readers alike.''Central to the literary landscape of modern Britain' Andrew Marr
£9.49
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Prowl the Seas in Search of Plunder
£7.60
Candlestick Press Fourteen Poems to say I Love You
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£7.41
Arachne Press Byways
Book SynopsisShort fiction and poetry inspired by walking and the places you can only reach by walking. Join our authors in the urban lives of alleyways, the secret ways between hedgerows and the well trodden paths to the local shops.
£10.80
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Poems to Learn by Heart
Book Synopsis'Paths of glory', 'Theirs not to reason why', 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep', 'A handful of dust', 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'.___________'Glorious' – Tribune'Superb' – The Good Book Guide ___________These and many others are famous lines of poetry that often occur in everyday speech. But do you know the rest of the verse, or even the rest of the poem?An anthology to warm the coldest heart or charm the least romantic soul, this is a collection of poems (or in some cases, extracts) that are not only memorable, but lend themselves to being learned by heart.This is the perfect book for anyone with even the vaguest interest in poetry, providing a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved lines remembered from earlier days.Trade ReviewGuaranteed to warm the heart and inspire romance... the perfect book for anyone with even the vaguest interest in poetry and a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved, half-remembered lines from days gone by. * Lancashire Evening Post *Glorious * Tribune *Superb * The Good Book Guide *
£8.54
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon
Book SynopsisThe fifth title in Sidekick's popular '10 Poets' series sees ten new poets bravely embarking (in varied fashion and with unpredictable results) on far-ranging lunar expeditions.
£7.60
Pushkin Press White Teeth Red Blood
Book SynopsisPoems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into... Three centuries of vampiric verse. Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always been the perfect vessel for humanity's fears and desires. The poems in this collection of dark delights range across centuries and languages; poems that tell stories, offer warnings, and imagine life in the shadows, by writers such as Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ishmael Reed, and many more. With an introduction by Claire Kohda, author of Woman, Eating. Contents include:Chilling Tales - poems by Gottfried August Burger, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Southey, Anne Bannerman, John Stagg, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rafael CampoDire Warnings - poems by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, John Keats, Henry Thomas Liddell, James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Madison Julius Cawein, Rudyard Kipling, Conrad Aiken, Edna St Vincent Millay, James Weldon JohnsonThe Vampire Within - poems by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Walter Pater, Delmira Agustini, William Butler Yeats, Ishmael Reed, Dorothy Barresi, John Yau
£16.58
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes
Book SynopsisTen poems. Ten poets. Ten deadly and desperate deeds uncovered.
£8.82
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Charm the Pants Off Ten Historical
Book SynopsisTen poems. Ten poets. Ten sensational acts of seduction.
£8.82
Pan Macmillan Poetry Prescription Wild Remedy
Book SynopsisA small but significant, inspiring anthology from Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy.
£8.54
Nine Arches Press Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World
Book SynopsisWith contributions from Jay Bernard, Malika Booker, Kat Francois, Jay T. John, Anthony Joseph, Ishion Hutchinson, Charnell Lucien, Vladimir Lucien, Rachel Manley, Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf. What does it mean to fight for a ‘mother country’ that refuses to accept you as one of its own? Britain’s First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche. Yet the stories of the 15,600 volunteers who signed up to the British West Indian Regiment remain largely unknown. Sadly, these citizens of empire were not embraced as compatriots on an equal footing. Instead they faced prejudice, injustice and discrimination while being confined to menial and auxiliary work, regardless of rank or status. As a collaborative project, co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, BBC Contains Strong Language and the British Council, Unwritten Poems invited contemporary Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora poets to write into that vexed space, and explore the nature of war and humanity – as it exists now, and at a time when Britain’s colonial ambitions were still at a peak. Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War is a result of that provocation and also includes new material written for broadcast and live performance.
£13.49
Profile Books Ltd Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisVivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, made immortal by the Gods to ask him the secret of life and death. Gilgamesh is the first and remains one of the most important works of world literature. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C., it predates the Iliad by roughly 1,000 years. Gilgamesh is extraordinarily modern in its emotional power but also provides an insight into the values of an ancient culture and civilisation.Trade ReviewStephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version. It is as eloquent and nuanced as his translations of Rilke. This is certainly the best that I have seen in English. * Harold Bloom *Stephen Mitchell's fresh new rendition of mankind's oldest recorded myth is quite wonderful in its limpidity and the immediacy of its live emotions. * Peter Mathiessen *Very readable. -- James Fenton * The Guardian *This is the most pellucid version of the epic yet to have been written in English, but what is most startling and admirable about it is the fact that Mitchell has not sacrificed a sense of the weird on the altar of readability. -- Tom Holland * Daily Telegraph *Mitchell produces what should become recognised as the standard text. Read it and sense all the wisdom and complexity of the original before film-makers now planning a screen version get their hands on it. Let it settle down into your imaginative depths. -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times *It was a revelation. The translation is superb. * Harold Pinter *As narrative verse, this Gilgamesh entrances and enthrals. Its liquid, intimate four-stressed lines negotiate the rapid shifts between everyday pleasures, heroic feats and blazing visions in this mythic world where the sensual and spiritual always intersect. Mitchell manages to slip the mesmerising incantations of the verse into his reader's bloodstream as if they flowed through some poetic intravenous drip. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *Reading Stephen Mitchell's marvellously clear and vivid rendering of Gilgamesh makes me feel that I am encountering this ancient poem for the first time. * Elaine Pagels *Beautifully retold and a page-turner in the bargain. Like Seamus Heaney's recent retelling of Beowulf, this book proves that in the right hands, no great story ever grows stale. -- Malcolm Jones * Newsweek *This is the most pellucid version of the epic yet to have been written in English, but what is most startling and admirable about it is the fact that Mitchell has not sacrificed a sense of the weird on the altar of readability ... a powerful translation. * The Times *Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version. It is as eloquent and nuanced as his translations of Rilke. This is certainly the best that I have seen in English. -- Harold Bloom
£10.44
Penguin Books Ltd The Mersey Sound
Book Synopsis''I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder''The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with its irreverent, wry, freewheeling verses of young love, petrol-pump attendants, CND leaflets and bus journey capers. Bringing together the hugely influential work of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten - the ''Liverpool Poets'' - this perennially beloved volume is the bestselling poetry anthology of all time. Now, for its fiftieth anniversary, this edition restores the original text of the book as it first appeared in 1967: energetic, raw and a true record of its era.
£9.49
Silver Press Tendrils
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£13.49
Candlestick Press Ten Poems About Grandparents
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Families
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Fourteen Poems about Kissing
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£7.41
Penguin Books Ltd The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
Book Synopsis''A matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss'' Stephen Fry on William Sieghart''s bestselling Poetry PharmacyThe Poetry Pharmacy is one of the bestselling (and most giftable) poetry anthologies of recent decades. Now, after huge demand for more prescriptions from readers and ''patients'' alike, William Sieghart is back. This time, tried-and-true classics from his in-person pharmacies are joined by readers'' favourite poems and the new conditions most requested by the public - all accompanied by his trademark meditations (warm, witty and understanding, with just a twist of the challenging) on the spiritual ailments he seeks to cure.From ageing bodies and existential crises to long-distance relationships and embracing your slovenliness, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns caters to all-new conditions while drilling further down into the universals: this time, the challenges of family life, and of living as a person among others, receive a much closer look. Perfect for the treasured friends, barely tolerated siblings, beloved aunts and revered grandparents in your life.
£13.49
Penguin Books Ltd Dancing By The Light of The Moon
Book SynopsisDiscover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion''Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness'' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year _______ A POEM CAN . . . Comfort Challenge Be a friend Stretch your vocabulary Help you sleep Break the ice Find you a lover Be utter nonsense Console Make you laugh - or cry For every moment in your life there is a poem.In Dancing by the Light of the Moon we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world.Allow Gyles Brandreth to be your guide to not only the wonders of poetry - and there are many - but also its practical uses in everyday liTrade ReviewTo instil a love of literature, a copy of Dancing by the Light of the Moon ought to find its way into every home in the land * Daily Mail, Book of the Week *Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness through learning poetry by heart. It's wonderful and so much fun -- Dame Judi DenchBrandreth provides over 400 pages of top-notch poems by everyone from Shakespeare to Simon Armitage. But his mission is to get you learning the poems by heart * Mail Online *Gyles Brandreth has compiled a collection of 250 poems that he believes will transform your memory and change your life. I couldn't agree me -- Dr Max Pemberton * Daily Mail *This compendium is an enthusiastic and emphatic call to appreciate all forms of poetry * Radio Times *A celebration of poetry packed full of wonderful verses * Planet Mindful *A passionate and rousing manifesto on the power and pleasure of learning poetry by heart * Optima *For a poem fitting for every occasion, make sure you add this book to your shopping cart ASAP * Glamour UK *
£11.69
British Museum Press Persian Love Poetry
Book SynopsisThis collection of beautiful Persian love poetry is richly illustrated with images from the British Museumâ s world-famous collection.
£9.49
Pan Macmillan Poetry Prescription Becoming
Book SynopsisA small but significant, inspiring anthology from Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy.
£8.54
Candlestick Press Ten Poems from Scotland
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Husbands and Wives
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Ten Poems of Light
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Vegetables
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£6.95
Octopus Publishing Group Faeries Sprites Malevolent Spirits
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£9.50
Union Square & Co. Love Poems Barnes Noble Collectible Editions
Book SynopsisOne of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions, this anthology of love poems features a durable, bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging.
£10.39
