Poetry
Classic and contemporary poems for all occasions and ages, from John Keats to John Cooper Clarke. Our range includes some of the most vital voices in contemporary poetry, such as Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and Clive James.
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The Lammas Hireling
Ian Duhig
Better Than God
Peter Porter
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea
Mark Haddon
Pluto
Glyn Maxwell
Hill of Doors
Robin Robertson
Collected Poems
Sean O'Brien
The Havocs
Jacob Polley
Wenceslas
Carol Ann Duffy
Stuart Kolakovic
The Overhaul
Kathleen Jamie
The Seacunny
Gerard Woodward
Banjo
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
The Dark Film
Paul Farley
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Clive James
Misadventure
Richard Meier
The Picador Book of Wedding Poems
Peter Forbes
The Picador Book of Funeral Poems
Don Paterson
The Picador Book of Love Poems
John Stammers
Armour
John Kinsella
The Cloud Corporation
Timothy Donnelly
New Selected Poems
Carol Ann Duffy
Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins
Sidereal
Rachael Boast
November
Sean O'Brien
Fiere
Jackie Kay
Love Poems
Carol Ann Duffy
The Floating Man
Katharine Towers
The Rest on the Flight
Peter Porter
Talk of the Town
Jacob Polley
Interior Night
John Stammers
Grain
John Glenday
Mrs Scrooge
Carol Ann Duffy
Posy Simmonds
Ballistics
Billy Collins
Furniture
Lorraine Mariner
The Shape of the Dance
Michael Donaghy
Answering Back
Carol Ann Duffy
Hide Now
Glyn Maxwell
Not In These Shoes
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful
John Kinsella
Public Dream
Frances Leviston
The Best Man That Ever Was
Annie Freud