Poetry

The Waste Land and Other Writings

by T.S. Eliot & Mary Karr

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive...

Use Trouble

by Michael Harper

For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles,...

Controlling the Silver

by Lorna Goodison

Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic...

The Welcome

by David Friedman

Fables for the modern age

Tongue & Groove

by Stephen Cramer

Inspired and informed by the music and urban landscape of New York City, Tongue & Groove employs jazzy and descriptive language in a sweep of city-life experiences and memories. A passionate rendering of incidents...

Spring

by Oni Buchanan

_x000B_A volume in the National Poetry Series, selected by Mark Doty_x000B__x000B_Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanans Spring encompasses...

A Deed to the Light

by Jeanne Murray Walker

In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go, and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry,...

A Map of the Night

by David Wagoner

David Wagoners wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family,...

Good Morning and Good Night

by David Wagoner

By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good...

Immortal Sofa

by Maura Stanton

In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she...

When I Dream

by Robin Landry & Christine Bennett

Synopsis: Open these pages to endless worlds of wonder and amazement. --- From ancient legends and mysteries from the far reaches of history, to modern twists on classic tales, and challenging information about...

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads

by George Meredith & Criscillia Ann Benford

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith’s already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the emotionally intense...

The Moment I'm Gone

by Christos Daskalakis

Forgotten Colour Footage

by Donald Fraser

Donald Fraser was born in Glasgow in 1961. The poems in this collection were written in the twenty-five years from 1982 to 2007. They tell of childhood, youth, love, loss, war, peace of mind. His father flew...

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

by John Keats & Edward Hirsch

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored...

When My Brother Was an Aztec

by Natalie Diaz

A fast-paced debut that draws upon reservation folklore, pop culture, fractured gospels, and her brother’s addiction to methamphetamine

The Priestly Poems of G.M. Hopkins

by Peter Milward

In any case, what distinguishes the plays of Shakespeare from those of all his contemporary dramatists is exactly what distinguishes the poems of Hopkins from those of all his contemporary poets, namely the...

Imaginary Menagerie

by Ailbhe Darcy

Ailbhe Darcy’s debut collection is a set of urgent despatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor...

Losing It

by Ranjit Bolt & Roddy Maude-Roxby

Written in rhyming couplets 'Losing It' is the story of Lucy , a luscious young virgin who goes to London to try losing her virginity.

Wild in the Plaza of Memory

by Pamela Uschuk

Blending the personal with the political, these poems explore the deleterious effects of adversity and trauma on a global scale, focusing on such subjects as immigration laws, environmental degradation, multinational...