Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira’s sa......more
The Keelie Hawk is a landmark collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. For the fir......more
Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us. Bernard O’Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage......more
The lode in Gillian Allnutt’s title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a j......more
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s Beast, a collection that ranges from the Camargu......more
The poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied......more
Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, N......more
An extraordinary debut, book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism. ......more
First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carve......more
In Pretenders, her third book of poetry, Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a ......more
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today......more
Dr John Cooper Clarke’s dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on gene......more
In three sequences, Richard Scott documents what it is to have survived ’seismic assaults, the buried silences’. The fir......more
The long-awaited first collection of poems from an influential young poet. Comic Timing, Holly Pester’s extraordinary de......more
In this delightful collection, some of Ireland’s most celebrated writers capture the joy and pain of romantic love. Feat......more
Maiden Mother Crone is a memoir in verse, challenging the traditional approach to faith by putting Madeleine’s own stori......more
From Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, comes an electric debut collection about loving, learning, surviving, g......more
An uplifting poetry collection from the number one bestselling author of My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay OBE THE INSTANT SUN......more
The brilliant and bracing debut collection of poetry from Declan Ryan: a writer, critic, and fierce new literary voice. ......more
This volume, which collects the four books of "nonsense" published by Lear during his lifetime, contains all of his most......more
A Poetry Book Society Choice An Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhig’s most personal collection of poems to date. It takes ......more
"A brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called "exciting, necessary a......more
The Horse And The Girl is a series of 30 linked narrative poems, conversations between the ’Horse And The Girl, ’ lookin......more
The new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices. Jenni Fagan converses with the poets of the past; throug......more
The Mad Art of Doing Time by Scout Tzofiya Bolton is a raw and compelling exploration of life inside and outside the pri......more
The poems in One Little Room enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to b......more
In this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father’s birth, T S Eliot Prizewinner Philip Gross continues ......more
In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a......more
’Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - Guardian The wonders of nature have inspired poet......more
In Alive Among Dead Stars, A C Clarke brings a fragmented poetic exploration of the emergence of Dadaism and Surrealism ......more
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’Everything is like life’ -- Mr Omer, David Copperfield This epigraph hovers over The Complete Works as it does over all......more
Emotional Support Horse tracks the tragicomedy of grief, and out of low vision, bereavement and eco-stress blends poems ......more
Featuring ten collage illustrations by the author, Helen Ivory’s new poetry collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the......more
The exciting and complex debut collection from Dzifa Benson, Monster is a bold and lyrical exploration of the Black fema......more
Votive Mess is a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, tracing Welsh poet Nia Davies’ e......more
Dimmet by Rob Miles is a profound exploration of twilight spaces-those physical and emotional edgelands where meaning sh......more
Traversing an axis of Liverpool-London, and following a car accident in New York, The Overmind is an attempt to metaboli......more
Hand-Me-Down Haircut offers a powerful and poignant exploration of masculinity, identity, and the working-class experien......more
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It’s no coincidence that this book found its way to you. Within these 111 poems lies a message meant just for you. I hop......more
The Island in the Sound, the third collection by Scottish poet Niall Campbell, creates an archipelago of memories, lyric......more
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of......more
The Drifted Stream is a poetic tribute to the enduring legacy of Charles Causley, capturing the spirit of his life, his ......more
Has there been a more thankless path in recent history than the one we are on now? Medbh McGuckian’s newest volume asks ......more
In a small pub just outside Derby, mid-December 2018, four poets met in order to see if they could rekindle the Poetry S......more
Failsafe: A Choreography by Scott Thurston offers an entrancing fusion of movement and language, inviting readers into a......more
In Climate Kid, Alice Brooker channels the fierce urgency of a generation grappling with the planet’s unraveling. Her po......more
Noriaki by Endre Ruset, translated by Harry Man, is a mesmerizing poetry collection that captures the daring spirit of s......more
Mind’s Eye: Notelets & Dialogues in Tribute to Paul Celan by Carol Rumens is a profound exploration of memory, language,......more
Mark Russell’s Come to the River is set over the weekend of an academic conference in a hotel in a city very much like G......more
"... we are important in the small ways in the hugs we give nightly, in the ways we glow brightly, before dotting out as......more
One unusually glorious British summer, words began to flow from Mimi Rose onto the page. Words that had to be voiced, ab......more
Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative ......more
A remarkable debut from a promising new poet. In his debut collection, Real Boys, Thomas Stewart examines the death of h......more
Hannah Lavery’s Unwritten Woman is a bold and lavish call for us to see the woman in the stories we read and tell oursel......more
Andrew’s sixth poetry collection, Outside of Here. Outsider Hear!, is mined from rich lived experience in Ghana, Japan, ......more
Now in paperback the first biography to provide a full and fresh account of Keat’s journey to Naples and Rome until his ......more
Polkadot Wounds is a delight, wrestling with life in our restless times. Capildeo entices us to enter conversations with......more
Why Are You Shouting?, James Womack’s fourth Carcanet collection, thinks about two things in particular: our struggle as......more
Food is an offering; a foundational form of love. Under Orange Blossom is a bittersweet bite into life as a mixed race w......more
This work is born from moments of intense emotion: the aftermath of arguments, train journeys to visit former lovers, an......more
Though Christopher Marlowe originally penned Hero and Leander, George Chapman completed the work after Marlowe’s untimel......more
Poems for Gustav Klimt is a quite stunning anthology of beautiful art set alongside stunning poetry, featuring full colo......more
The timeless and compelling "word-music" of one of Britain’s oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual......more
It’s that time of year again . . . With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty-on......more
What spaces are significant to you? After over 4 years of producing poetry events and workshops, Off The Chest bring you......more
Neverland is a book of poetry that deals with a place that only exists in the author’s imagination, which further inspir......more
In Earth House, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore......more
Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteous’s lates......more
A generous and intimate reflection on the natural and human world, grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of Engl......more
Fred lost a good friend to suicide. These poems are about the man and Fred’s own loss...more
Gig Catharsis is a raw and thought-provoking pamphlet that captures the complexities of navigating modern life amidst cl......more
In this compelling anthology, Metamorphosis, students of Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing MA course explore the......more
A Haunting Without Allegory consists of a series of transatlantic sequences exploring hope and despair in a time of cons......more
The Wild Knight and Other Poems is a collection of early poetry by G.K. Chesterton, showcasing his sharp wit, deep spiri......more
Clogged Arteries - Brutalist Poetry #3 ’For the one who hates my poetry. Says it’s nothing to do with her.’ Author: Flet......more
Inspired by the harrowing events surrounding the often overlooked Ballymurphy Massacre in the north of Ireland, Stephani......more
Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is used in worship, in pastoral services and guid......more
Rich and various, From Base Materials ranges thematically from violence towards women, love in old age and surviving can......more
Musings and Memories is a light-hearted poetic glimpse into the life of author Sue Hollings, spanning some fifty years a......more
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gi......more
River Talk is the Cumbrian water I know and love, a language that has run through me from an early age. River is refuge,......more
This collection of poems offers a blend of emotional depth and lyrical beauty, reflecting on themes of love, nature, and......more
In The Lost Art of Ironing, the metaphorical iron smooths out life’s creases as well as crumpled clothes, with poems abo......more
Nature versus Nurture? Reflections on growing up in the post war era, viewed through a lens of music and colour. "How to......more
Once more the Scottish Highlands feature, including one about the dreaded midge, the bane of the tourist. It never cease......more