Poetry

Momma Said Never Date Bi-Polar Alcoholic Divorcees

by Louis Kahn Nin

Urban post-postmodern poems from the avant-pop, avant-porn school of iconoclast literature! Louis Kahn Nin does not heed momma's advice and gets involved with members of the opposite sex who drink too much and...

Getting Higher

by Andrew Greig

‘Andrew Greig is a Scottish poet of sensitivity and resilience. He deals with high-risk situations – from mountaineering to love – and is particularly good at presenting the gamut of feelings involved...

Tongues of Ash

by Keith Westwater

Keith Westwater's poetry arises from his appreciation and love of the New Zealand landscape. Well-travelled throughout the land, the poet evokes memories as he revisits places invested with emotion, history...

What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?

by Arlene Kim

In her stunning debut poetry collection, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim confronts the ways in which language mythologizes memory and, thus, exiles us from our own true histories....

Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition

by Christian Bök

The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle),...

Lay Back the Darkness: Poems

by Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch’s sixth collection is a descent into the darkness of middle age, narrated with exacting tenderness. He explores the boundaries of human fallibility both in candid personal poems, such as the...

Life Happens, and Death Too : Stories and Poems

by Latika Mangrulkar

Synopsis: Life Happens, and Death Too is the second collection of stories and poems by Latika Mangrulkar that focus on issues of trans-national identity.---- The men and women who inhabit these thematically...

The Simple Truth: Poems

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1995

by Philip Levine

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995

Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public...

The Mercy: Poems

by Philip Levine

Philip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth...

What Work Is

National Book Award for Poetry 1991

by Philip Levine

Winner of the National Book Award in 1991

“This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the...

New Selected Poems

by Philip Levine

Breath: Poems

by Philip Levine

Always a poet of memory and invention, Philip Levine looks back at his own life as well as the adventures of his ancestors, his relatives, and his friends, and at their rites of passage into an America of victories...

Edge Music

by Stuart Cooke

Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes - be they geographical or historical. Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book...

Coda for Shirley

by Geoff Page

Coda for Shirley is the sardonic yet poignant sequel to Geoff Page's successful 2006 verse novel, Lawrie & Shirley: The Final Cadenza. The earlier work presented an autumnal romance between an 82 year-old former...

The Sleepwalker at Sea

by Kelly Grovier

The poems in The Sleepwalker at Sea tread a fluid line between dream and wakefulness, memory and loss, presence and longing. Leave a house and it suddenly fills with ‘the unseen’; consult ‘The Book of...

Men Briefly Explained

by Tim Jones

Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general. Thought provoking, impertinent, irreverent,...

Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from theTime of the Crusades

by Guibert of Nogent & Joseph McAlhany

The first Western autobiography since Augustine's Confessions, the Monodies is set against the backdrop of the First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval society. As Guibert of Nogent intimately...

The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

by Philip Zaleski & Philip Yancey

Penguin's yearly offering of outstanding essays and poetry on faith and spirituality.

Every year, the acclaimed Best Spiritual Writing series offers readers the opportunity to explore the most intriguing work...

Terroir

by Robert Morgan

The first full-length collection in more than a decade from the award-winning poet and author of the bestselling novel Gap Creek.

Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge...

Delightfully Haiku

by M Donna Smith

A beautiful collection of 'Japanese Haiku' poetry depicting snap shots of moments in every day life, including the natural beauty that surrounds us. Experience the taste of ripe plums in spring and feel the...