Poetry Books

Eddie the Elephant was always asking "Who? What? When?" But one day a crocodile gave him an answer he'd never forget! Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters...

This collection of poems is the work of former refugee and journalist, Abdul Samad Haidari. The poems, grouped in five sections, give expression to the authors experiences of flight from war torn...

'Once, we were one form among many in the garden. We learned to hear the voices of the mountains, the rivers, the sky, of silence. The mice spoke, the trees spoke, the stars spoke, the deer and the...

After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience...

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarkes first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and...

Torchlight explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a...

This is a book of wonderings and wanderings. Many of the wanderings are on familiar territory explored on foot, the hills of Wicklow and of the Burren in Co. Clare, the shorelines of Dublin Bay, of...

A neighbourhood containing Singapore’s oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribution, the long tail of the British Empire: the word ‘Commonwealth’ uncovers rich...

Passion is a glorious, supercharged collection of poetry focusing on love, nature, and Romany Traveller life.

Cancer – Tom Raworth’s ‘lost’ book – was originally to have been published by Frontier Press in 1973. After Frontier’s funds ran out, the typescript was returned to its author, and its opening...

A sequel to Dantes Inferno (Carcanet, 2014), where Dante was relocated to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dantes island of Purgatory to Mersea Island in Essex. This is a...

Following upon Pandemonium (2016) and Prophecy (2019), Plenitude marks a moment of completion and buoyant plenty in a very real and contemporary Irish world. Enriched at all times by a sense of...

In her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith, and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among the Saints...

The highly anticipated second collection from the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.

Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. In documentary, she wrote, real things lose their reality ... and theres no poetry in that. In...

Debut collection from a British-born Irish writer (living in London) who was a star of Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology. His first pamphlet Somewhere Far won the 2018 New Poets Prize, and in...

Winter Migrants opens with Tom Pickard's prize-winning sequence Lark & Merlin, an erotic pursuit over the hills and fells of the poet's Northern-English homeland. Stotting clough and gill in sneaping...

This comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame-workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn,...

Gray Night Undistinguished Gray night, undistinguished. It is all the same, The eye cannot see it There is no point of reference It is a moving curtain Drawn to a close. I am the point of reference...

Ocean Mother tells the story of a young womans decision to heal herself, her family, and her home. The poet gives voice to her experience as a CHamoru girl raised in the Pacific Island of Guahan...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain...

This is not a book you read once and toss in the cupboard. This book will become dog-eared and tattered as your re-read it and pass it around. It’s your go-to book to get a great big taste of...

The Poets and Perspectives Series has been applauded —by students, poets, critics and educators—for stimulating enjoyment and interest. It combines information and critical essays in the same volume...

A new collection of poems by Lynn Hard, with 20 drawings by Garry Shead.

A Book For Kids was first published in 1921, with poems and stories from the author of The Sentimental Bloke. This new edition into Imprint Classics is introduced by John Derum, to help celebrate the...

The Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a member of a larrikin push (or gang) in Melbourne's Little Lonsdale red-light district, who encounters Doreen, a young woman "of some social...

Upfield followed The Sands of Windee with this historical romance: The Crown Princess of Rolandia is visiting Australia - and two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and Van Horton - abduct her on...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 1 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Why was King Henry, an aboriginal from Western Australia, killed in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 25 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 19 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Sinister stones… On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse –...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 22 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Deep in Australia’s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is...

Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange ‘bad boy’ Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 17 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen – all boys, all under three months...

The Answerth family’s mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House – perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by...

‘In little bit long time we experience a true poet’s strong and singing voice… She has a tradition of innovators behind her – poets from Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Lionel Fogarty – who also experimented...

Barbara Blackman unleashes her subversive sense of humour in this unusual collection of verse about the dog in our language and our lives. Whimsical sketches by artist Cheryl Westenberg bring this...

A selection of Australian bush icon Banjo Paterson’s poems arranged approximately in order of publication from 1885 to 1933. Includes a preface by Clancy of the Overflow’s great-grandson and comes...

'Cricket is battle and service and sport and art' says Douglas Jardine as he dreams up brutal tactics to beat the Australians in the 1930s. It's also about class and race, language and reflection,...

The Co(s)mic Picture of Reality in the Art of Julia Curylo is both a collection of essays about the work of Julia Curylo and an album of works by the artist representing a generation of Central and...

Born in London in 1890, Angela Thirkell was Sir Edward Burne-Jones's granddaughter, J.M. Barrie's goddaughter and a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. John Collier painted her portrait...

An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the...

Charlotte Ansell's territory, from her debut in 2002, has been the heart. In Amittere, the heart is stripped to its connections - parent to child in poems such as Navigation and Poiesis; between...

Drawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is...

"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces,...

Bunya 100 and Other Cracks in the Looking Glass is Rob Ferguson’s exquisite collection of poems – pieces that resonate with raw courage, playful humour, and a gently haunting melancholy. These...

The best and most characteristic of a lifetime's work has been skilfully drawn together by David Brooks, Hope's most experienced editor. There are items published here for the first time, alongside...

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) began writing poetry as a devotee of Blake, Shelley, the pre-Raphaelites, and of nineteenth-century Irish poets including James Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson. By the end...

Drawing on themes of magic, dreams and the nocturnal, Grevel Lindops new collection of poems ranges in subject from the hidden histories of words to the folklore of yew trees, and in place from a...