Poetry
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100 Poems
Seamus Heaney
Read more ▸ Order ▸Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the...
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Read more ▸ Order ▸Examining the universal and perennial topics of love, beauty, time and mortality, the 154 sonnets...
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The Poetry of World War I
James Shepherd
Read more ▸ Order ▸The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from...
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The Poetry of Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Read more ▸ Order ▸At once controversial, revolutionary and expertly written,Walt Whitman’s poetry represents the perfect accompaniment to the...
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Read more ▸ Order ▸This collection of masterful poetry demonstrates the extraordinary range and beautiful lyricism of Ireland’s most...
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Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Read more ▸ Order ▸Inferno is the first part of the epic poem: ‘The Divine Comedy’, one of the...
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The White Book
Han Kang
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian From the author...
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The Zoo of the New
Don Paterson & Nick Laird
Read more ▸ Order ▸In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a...
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Who Is Mary Sue?
Sophie Collins
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I love the inspiration behind this debut collection. A ‘Mary Sue’ is an implausible...
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace
A. A. Milne
Read more ▸ Order ▸A selection of poetry from When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six,...
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New Cemetery
Simon Armitage
Read more ▸ Order ▸A poet, at a desk, in a shed. A shed which is temple, bunker, study...
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We British
Andrew Marr
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Poetry, like most things in life, needs a bit of context for a better...
