Poetry

Love Poetry Out Loud

by Robert Alden Rubin

Following the success of Poetry Out Loud (now in its eighth printing), an affectionate celebration of the declaimed poem, Love Poetry Out Loud now turns to the choppier waters of affection itself. From Hello,...

Colony Collapse Disorder

by Keith Flynn

Expansive and innovative, this is the fifth collection from award-winning poet Keith Flynn. A place-based abecedarium, this compilation features two poems representing each letter of the alphabet. Recalling...

Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda

by Pablo Neruda & William Pitt Root

A translation of Pablo Neruda’s early collections of odes, this book features poems that are addressed to hope and to gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and to artichokes. Reflecting the lucent,...

For As Far as the Eye Can See

by Robert MelanCon & Judith Cowan

"I shall settle for the paradise of what I see … this rectangle of twelve lines … a window."

Safest

by Michael Donaghy

The tragic death of Michael Donaghy last year at the age of 50 left English-language poetry incalculably the poorer. Donaghy was one of our very finest poets, and his metaphysically dense yet emotionally direct...

Not In These Shoes

by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In...

New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

by Charles Simic

The first ever volume of new and selected poetry from one of our most celebrated and acclaimed poets, Charles Simic.

Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

by Robert Wrigley

A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s "Sonnets" are the most beautiful example of love poetry ever written. With their uplifting spirit, coherence, intensity and dealing with the passing of age, of time, the evanescence of...

White Piano

by Nicole Brossard, Erin Mouré & Robert Majzels

The latest poetic offering from the doyenne of experimental writing.

Circus Maximus

by David Starkey

Tour the sites of Rome with David Starkey's garrulous new guide to the Italian Renaissance in fifty pocket-sized poems.

Kindertotenwald

by Franz Wright

A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense...

The Hundred Grasses: Poems

by Leila Wilson

Wilson writes from the periphery of an open field in this extended investigation into longing and loss, love and doubt.  As the poet muses, "we wonder / what we're not / in the field," and reading The Hundred...

The Stick Soldiers

by Hugh Martin & Cornelius Eady

Iraq war veteran's Poulin Prize–winning debut poetry collection explores war, masculinity, and return to civilian life. Introduction by Cornelius Eady.

Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

by Yasmin Haskell

Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and...

White

by Mary E Weems

"Energy, dynamic energy emanates from Mary Weems" careful, observing eyes into her language. These poems offer immediacy, intelligent response, and rich repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior....

To the Barricades

by Stephen Collis

A poetic record of revolution that traces the lines from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches.

Bloody Versicles: The Rhymes of Crime

by Jonathan Goodman

An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, Bloody Versicles serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining...

Green Glass Beads

by Jacqueline Wilson

This is a gorgeous, stunningly produced collection of classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives. Jacqueline has taken great delight in selecting and arranging the...

The Other Side of the Door: Poems

by Jeff Moss

A wise and whimsical collection of poems by Jeff Moss about a variety of subjects both real and imaginary.

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