The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal...

Antjie Krog has been known in Afrikaans literary circles and media for decades for her poetry and her strong political convictions. Often known sim...

Everyone understands that life is hard, but self-love and dedication will always be the key. Becoming. is a beautiful debut collection of poetry...

'How suitable that Dick Davis, who gave us superb English versions of medieval Persian epigrams, should now compose witty, shapely, and polished ep...

Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, ...

A NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife. Nea...

Titled from lyrics of the song "Nobody Home" by Pink Floyd, this well-thought poetry collection touches on the subjects of loss, love, pain, happin...

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 stunn...

In his short life, Robert Burns forged for himself a reputation as a poet and songwriter that has never been eclipsed. Today, more than 200 years a...

The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resona...

Social media sensation Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through mess...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the g...

Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings toget...

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 of...

In hierdie bundel durf die skrywer Dante Alighieri se briljante werk aan. Hy bewys homself as uitmuntende vertaler. Dante se lang reis kan tematies...

Die meeste sterre is lankal dood is die bekroonde digter Johann de Lange se dertiende bundel. Dit bestaan uit ses afdelings, deurgaans gewy aan vli...

Die nuwe Afrikaanse prosaboek is ’n viering van verskeidenheid. Dit bied ’n verruimende, vars blik op die Afrikaanse kortverhaal met sowel klassiek...

Winner of the 2013 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection Winner of the 2013 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2013 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize ...

These poems explore the distance between the head and the heart-and all of the pain, beauty, and hope in between.This book is one woman's account o...

'Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself' ScotsmanIn this stunning anth...

'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs...

*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.* **I know you don't want to talk sometimes. Sometime...

Stephen Symons's new collection is engineered for flight, gliding its way between the heavy and the weightless, memory and forgetting. It is a self...

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the worl...

Bibi Slippers's debut celebrates humanity and culture as a photocopier, and the poem as a defective photocopy. The poet takes on the role of monk i...

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance...

From rising Australian poet Chloe Frayne comes her newest poetry collection, The Gravity Inside Us.Gathering inspiration from a life of travel, hop...

Die langverwagtige boek met uittreksels van die steeds groeiende en gewilde Afrikaanse webblad, Hekelwoorde van my Hart, is gepubliseer op versoek ...

'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet, on the page and in performance' - Carol Ann DuffyA Sunday Times Book of the Year and...

A new collection from Glyn Maxwell - one of the great poetic stylists of the era, and one of its leading dramatic voices - is always a cause for ce...

The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolver's generous co...

This edition gathers together Barbara Kingsolver's vibrant and various poems, revealing an intimate side to her creative practice as yet unseen. Al...

"I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it." The fo...

Poetry was Louis de Bernieres' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Capta...