Over the course of his career, Tomas Transtroemer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no othe...

This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. The Hawk ...

A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult lifeAs in life, she was a pain in the arsein death. He could hear her roaringall...

One of the world's favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profound than when he wrote about love. He believed it was the raison d'etre of th...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...

'A brilliant, moving book . . . Reminiscent of one of this century's great elegies, Denise Riley's A Part Song, The M Pages is similarly probing, h...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardene...

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third a...

Jericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important voi...

This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive...

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the t...

'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a ...

Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of E...

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems ran...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was one of the greatest and most beloved poets of the 19th century. This volume includes more than 40 of his most beloved poe...

'The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened...