POETRY
In the words of Dylan Thomas, "a good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it." To aid Dylan's claim, here is an assortment of the best poetry - new and old - on offer.
Here lie classics like June Jordan, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Audre Lorde. And those at the cutting edge of contemporary poetry, such as Len Pennie, Hollie McNish, Peter Gizzi & more.
The Poems of Sylvia Plath
The Poems of Sylvia Plath is a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet's work for scholars, students and general readers.
Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that edition.
The book is in two parts: the first contains the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and upon which her reputation is founded, and the second includes those poems written in childhood and through her student years.
Yiewsley
Daljit Nagra
A spirited and stirring return to the poet’s boyhood and the town that made him.
This autobiographical collection candidly explores Daljit Nagra’s experiences growing up from the sixties to the eighties in the predominantly white working-class town of Yiewsley, close to Heathrow airport in Outer London.
As Britain transitions from a post-war manufacturing economy to the Thatcher years and the computer age, we see a young boy navigating childhood friendships and mishaps. The poems bring to life a bustling house filled with relatives from India, who had arrived, legally or otherwise, in the UK: ‘devout realists already, and always, knuckled into work’.
Yiewsley
Daljit Nagra
Tender
Harry Baker
Frequently Happy
David Larbi
The Poems of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Noon
Zain Rishi
Alanis Morissette
Melete
Jennifer Lee Tsai
Love Poems
Rupi Kaur
The Museum of Unnatural Histories
Annie Wenstrup
Get Closer
Ryan Van Winkle
Hekate
Nikita Gill
Unsafe
Karen McCarthy Woolf
回 / Return
Emily Lee Luan
Light Year
Jennifer Wong
Gravity Archives
Andrew Motion
Everything Everyday
Hannah Lavery
The House of Broken Things
Kim Moore
Dog Star
Michael Symmons Roberts
Egrets, While War
Tishani Doshi
Goyle, Chert, Mire
Jean Sprackland
The Intentions of Thunder
Patricia Smith
Into the Hush
Arthur Sze
Milk Wood Memoir
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
Neil Tennant
Startlement
Ada Limón
Girl, Swooning
Imogen Wade
The Kind Company of Others
Alexander McCall Smith
Mer de Glace
Małgorzata Lebda
The New Carthaginians
Nick Makoha
plastic
Matthew Rice
The Rose
Ariana Reines
A Year of Last Things
Michael Ondaatje
Afterburn
Blake Morrison
Before Violence
Joe Carrick-Varty
Crush
Richard Siken
Dark Night
John of the Cross
Only Sing
John Berryman
The Tree Is Missing
Shannon Kuta Kelly
Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak
Rishi Dastidar
The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
Michael Ondaatje
Family Lines
Simon Armitage and Rachel Bower
Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders
Ted Hughes
Folkish
Kym Deyn
Horses
Jake Skeets
Love Poems
Alan Dugan
The Way the Water Held Me
Catherine Redford
The Bonfire Party
Sean O'Brien
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Collected Poems
Tobias Hill
The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis
Fernando Pessoa
Dirt Rich
Graeme Richardson
I Do Know Some Things
Richard Siken
RABBITBOX
Wayne Holloway-Smith
Loss: The New Collection
Donna Ashworth
How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside
Brian Bilston
Dream Latitudes
Alia Kobuszko
Selected Poems
Pat Parker
"The kind of poems that breathe life through the lungs of their readers." Mona Kareem, Los Angeles Review of Books
Alongside her invaluable contributions to social justice, Pat Parker wrote five collections of poetry during her lifetime and is widely recognised as one of the leading African-American, lesbian-feminist voices of the 20th Century.
Selected Poems collects her most loved works into an accessible volume, introducing new readers to Parker's fire for justice, tenderness, and vision for the world. This is the first time Pat Parker's poetry has been published in the United Kingdom.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
Pilgrim Bell
Kaveh Akbar
Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith
Unexpected Vanilla
Hyemi Lee
The Ink Cloud Reader
Kit Fan
So To Speak
Terrance Hayes
Quiet
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Notes on The Sonnets
Luke Kennard
When the Flies Come
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
A Year in the New Life
Jack Underwood
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan
The Home Child
Liz Berry
Zong!
M. Nourbese Philip
Self-Portrait as Othello
Jason Allen-Paisant
Manorism
Yomi Sode
The Ink Dark Moon
Izumi Shikibu and Ono no Komachi
Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri
with your chest
The Islands of Chile
