Poetry

Three Stories

by Ernest Hemingway

Known for his works 'A Farewell to Arms', 'The Old Man and the Sea', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', Ernest Hemingway also wrote a series of short stories and poems. This book is an attempt to bring some of them...

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

In Paradise, God’s favored new creations—Adam and Eve—live in bliss, untainted by sin. In another realm, Satan and his banished rebel angels collude to destroy God’s tranquil new design. Into this idyll...

The Tradition

by Jericho Brown

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY

Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award

"100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book Review

"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown...

Bloodshot Monochrome

by Patience Agbabi

Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read. Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from...

Glasgow Zen

by Alan Spence

A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow ? its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating some of...

Transformatrix

by Patience Agbabi

'They call me Jax, though my real name's Eva / The whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious diva / No.1 on the guest list, top of the charts / When I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins parts...'...

Seasons Of The Heart

by Alan Spence

This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.

Love And Zen In The Outer Hebrides

by Kevin MacNeil

This collection marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil's voice and vision, while rooted in the Hebridean islands, is open to a wide range of cultures, not only those of Scotland...

DOWN

by Sarah Dowling

"I have tremendous respect for any poet who strives to be even half as great as Sarah Dowling."—CAConrad

Disorientation and defamiliarization yank fresh feeling from banal sentences. Down takes junk language—with...

The Walt Whitman MEGAPACK ®

by Walt Whitman

The Walt Whitman MEGAPACK? collects more than 500 classic poems, essays, and letters of Walt Whitman, including "Leaves of Grass," Whitman's magnum opus.

The Eagle’s Mile

by James Dickey

A book of new poems by a major writer is an event. A book of new poems that marks a different, more powerful approach is cause for celebration. "What I looked for here," James Dickey tells us about The Eagle's...

Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems

by Joe Moffett

Written from a literary critic’s perspective, Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems borrows insights from Religious Studies and critical theory to examine the role of spirituality in contemporary poetry, specifically...

The Room Within

by Moore Moran

The Room Within is a retrospective survey of a poetic career dating back to the late fifties. A student of Yvor Winters at Stanford, Moore Moran has deservedly earned a reputation, along with fellow Winters...

The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold

by Antony H. Harrison

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.

The...

Photographing Eden

by Jason Gray

Photographing Eden presents the first full-length collection of poems by a major new talent. The work meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships...

Beautiful Shirt

by Donald Revell

The world that Donald Revell ponders in these poems replete with contrarieties. The same verbal playfulness and prophetic lyricism that made Revell a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and a winner of National...

Death Tractates

by Brenda Hillman

From the depths of sorrow following the sudden death of her closest female mentor, Brenda Hillman asks anguished questions in this book of poems about separation, spiritual transcendence, and the difference...

Alcools: Poems

by Guillaume Apollinaire & Donald Revell

Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)...

Bright Existence

by Brenda Hillman

The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent Death Tratates, offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence,...

The Tennis Court Oath

by John Ashbery

John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly...