Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay
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Category: Poetry
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book ...Show more
Ghost Poetry by Robbie Coburn
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Category: Poetry
I saved the pieces of you when you fell apart Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghos ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
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Category: Poetry
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest o ...Show more
Season Songs by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
Spring will marry you. A promise!Cuckoo brings the message: May.O new clothes! O get your house ready!Expectation keeps you starry.But at which church and on what day?In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and catch the spring (but she's elusive); to take a closer look at the March calf; to ...Show more
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In my selection, which is roughly chronological ...Show more
Rapture's Road by Seán Hewitt
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Category: Poetry
In this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'MAX PORTER, author of ShyAs the mind wanders and becomes spectral, these poems forge their own ...Show more
Spirals: Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023) by John Kinsella
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Category: Poetry
Spirals is the third and final volume of John Kinsella’s collected poems and dates from 2014-2023, seeing Kinsella through his fifties and without an end in sight. Spirals is not a case of a poet growing older, steadier, and more sedate but rather brings an ongoing sense of development that is also recu ...Show more
Homie by Danez Smith
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Category: Poetry
"& colin kaepernick is my president, who kneels on the airbent toward a branch, throwing apples down to the children & vets & rihanna is my president, walking out of global summitswith wine glass in hand, our taxes returned in goldto dust our faces into coins& my mama is my president, h ...Show more
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse by VARIOUS,
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Category: Poetry
How the night deepens. A ribbon of frost is stretched across the bridge of magpie wings the lovers will cross.' The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshucontains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to t ...Show more
Another Time by Auden W H
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Category: Poetry
"Another Time" was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they sho ...Show more