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How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

This edition gathers together Barbara Kingsolver's vibrant and various poems, revealing an intimate side to her creative practice as yet unseen. Almost resembling a Collected or Selected Poems, the bo..

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How To Read A Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented ex..

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I Wish I Knew

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND FROM THE AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE 'A little corner of calm within life's storm - wonderful.' Cat Deeley 'Donna's much-needed words will no doubt empower and li..

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If All the World and Love Were Young

The exhilarating debut from award-winning poet Stephen Sexton Memories of going 'through the looking-glass' into the land of video games are some of the most evocative of all childhood. In these ..

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Immortal Poems of the English Language

A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Em..

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In the Footsteps of Du Fu

A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China's greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of fami..

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Ink Dark Moon, The

A captivating and unexpected collection of two female Japanese poets from the 9th and 10th centuries Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They origina..

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Inward

From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that come..

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Jane Austen: Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'

'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known' Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen ..

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Leaves of Grass

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acc..

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Legacy: My Little Buddha

These poems are written with love and the best of intentions. I have attempted to use the traditional Korean sijo form but in English with accompanying Korean translations. They are far from perfect b..

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Let the Light Pour In

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 ..

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Letters to a Young Poet

'Most unsayable of all are works of art, mysterious existences whose lives exist alongside ours' At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young offic..

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Letters to a Young Poet

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. ..

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Little Poems

From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong- a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through the ages Dip into thi..

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Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN 'Hollie McNish's w..

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Love and F**k Poems (Anniversary Edition 2023)

Sexually repressed, separated Greek Girl on a rampage. There's no love here just fucks. But is she fucking him or fucking herself? Initially a self-published zine, Love and F**k Poems is a bestseller ..

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LOVE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars, and The Truth About Magic comes Love & Poetry, a dazzling new journey into the great unknown by Atticus. Featurin..

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Lupercal

Lupercal was Ted Hughes's second collection, containing some of his most brilliant animal poetry. It confirmed his reputation as a major talent in British poetry. 'Hughes has found his own voice, crea..

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LVOE II

In the highly anticipated follow-up to LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a deeper look behind the mask as he continues..

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Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

An explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely and necessary collection of poetry from writer William Bortz. Many Small Hungerings is the newest ..

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Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Ob..

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Naag Mountain

Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the historie..

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Nature

One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Green: Natural World Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four d..

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No Art: Poems

This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form ..

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O me voy o te vas / One of us must go

In Rogelio Guedea's bold new poetry collection, O me voy o te vas / One of us must go (with English translations by Roger Hickin), love is a powerful magnet that attracts and repels in equal measure. ..

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Orlam

Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guar..

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Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine

Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves ..

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Phantom Pain Wings

An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new..

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Pillow Thoughts I

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most...

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Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart

Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration. A collec..

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Pillow Thoughts: Deluxe Edition

A special hardcover gift edition of Courtney Peppernell's bestselling Pillow Thoughts! Originally published in 2017, Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and r..

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Plague Poems

Reflections on the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, through a re-reading of Albert Camus' great novel La Peste (1947). Just before midnight on 25 March 2020 the country entered its first C..

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Poemas Moteatea Poems

Gabriela Mistral was a well-known Chilean poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945. She was also a teacher, and had an important role in the educational system of Chile. This ..

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Poems About Birds

Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially o..

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Poems for Love

A complex and truly timeless emotion, love - whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation - has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verses of outstanding beauty. ..

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Poems for New Parents

A beautiful gift anthology of classic poetry which captures the excitement and joy of a new arrival in the family. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized c..

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Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"The Poetry of Emily Dickinson" is a collection of pieces by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the ..

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Politics

One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Red: Politics - one of four themed collections - Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her political poetry. Drawing on work w..

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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than 80 poems, Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the sha..

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Rapture's Road

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 In this remarkable second collec..

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Robert Burns

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet ..

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Romantic Poets

Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement's five m..

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Rupi Kaur Trilogy Boxed Set

From international bestselling poet Rupi Kaur, a beautifully designed, three-book boxed set of the poetry collections that solidified her as the voice of a generation: milk and honey, the sun and her ..

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Safety in Numbers

A beautiful new collection of poetry from one of Britain's best-loved poets From 'Adultery in Isolation' to 'After You. No, After You' to 'Seaside Staycation,' a new collection from one of Britai..

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Second World War Poems

The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen wh..

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Selected Poems

A pioneering poet of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843 for his lyrical innovation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbou..

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Selected Poems and Songs

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) ..

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Self-Love for Small-Town Girls

Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and prose that seeks to define the loaded question of what it means to..

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