Poetry

Precautionary Tales for Grandparents: Some of Which May be Read to the Young for Their Moral Improvement

by James Muirden & David Eccles

Inspired by Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, whimsical and well-observed precautionary tales to amuse grandparents and impart moral guidance Many readers remember with pleasure Hilaire Belloc's...

What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop

by Gary Gach & Peter Coyote

What Book!? is a lively anthology of modern mindful poetry, featuring 330 selections from 125 contributors. Also included are "mind-writing exercises" by Allen Ginsberg and a meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Themes...

Chance Would Be a Fine Thing

by Anthony McCann & Patricia Terry

"chance would be a fine thing" is collection of poems and song lyrics by Irish singer and songwriter Anthony McCann. From tales of supernatural shenanigans and agoraphobic killers, to songs and poems about love...

Echelon's Rest: A Small Correction of Crop

by Mike Peterson

 Echelons' Rest - humorous poetry   MIKE PETERSON PROUDLY PRESENTS, "ECHELONS' REST"! WELCOME DEAR READER, MAY I GIVE YOU A GLIMPSE? THANK YOU! JOURNEY WITH ME TO WHERE ECHELONS REST, IN THE DEPTHS OF THE...

Poetry Penned to Perfection: Modern Selections from a Proud Poetess

by Courtney Caswell-Peyton & Tara Keppler

In havoc or at holiday time, poetry does everything from soothe our souls to help us celebrate. Celebrate Courtney Caswell-Peyton's first-ever volume of poetry. Let it take you on a spectacularly versed journey...

Warrior Poet Wisdom Vol. V: Resolve

by Miro & Luana Mercy

The fifth installment in the continuing series of Warrior Poet Wisdom.

Gone are the days of swords and shields, knights and paladins. But warriors still walk among us. Their strength and grace is as effective...

Nest of Stones: Kenyan Narratives in Verse

by Wanjohi wa Makokha

The poems focus sharply on the tumultuous period between the General Elections of 2007 and August 4th Referendum of 2010. Some of the poems relate to events drawn out of earlier moments in Kenyan history but...

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Edna St. Vincent Millay & Nancy Milford

"These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millay’s reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page," writes Nancy Milford in the Introduction to The...

Frost: Poems

by Robert Frost & John Hollander

rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's...

Citizen

by Aaron Shurin

In Citizen Aaron Shurin has collected sixty-eight vibrant new poems that are by turns romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful.

To Keep Love Blurry

by Craig Morgan Morgan Teicher

Inspired by Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones as a son becomes a husband and father.

Grace

by Esther Morgan

Shortlisted for the 2011 TS Eliot Prize Poetry Book Society Recommendation What happens if, when the angel arrives with his message, no one’s at home? In poems of lyric concentration, Grace examines our need...

City Psalms

by Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah is an oral poet, novelist, playwright, children's writer and reggae artist. Born in 1958 in Birmingham, he grew up in Jamaica and in Handsworth, where he was sent to an approved  school for...

Burns: Poems

by Robert Burns & Gerard Carruthers

The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old...

How to Heal the Hurt by Hating

by Anita Liberty

"I wish we were back together for just one night . . .

so I could push you out of my loftbed while you were sleeping."

Satirical and sharp, downtown New York City performance artist Anita Liberty reinvents self-help...

Netted Rainbows: A Collection of Poetry 2005-2009

by Kevin Munro

Synopsis:

In 2005, after 20 years of working for an Australian State Government Schools Teaching Service, author Kevin Munro suffered a severe bipolar nervous breakdown. To keep up his literary skills, he began...

Musing

by Jonathan Locke Hart

Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the framework of a classic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an extended meditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past. As sonnets, the poems...

Apples from Shinar

by Hyam Plutzik & David Scott Scott Kastan

A special centenary edition of this American poet's critically acclaimed collection

Tennyson: Poems

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode...

Milton: Poems: Pocket Poets

by John Milton

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets,...