Poetry Books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Death for the bomber crew limping back over the estuary? Life after death for the young woman buried under the trees, beneath the city? A lunch break after death - as decades, centuries break their moorings and collide with each other?Felix Hodcroft is...

Read what happens when Santa meets the Health and Safety Executive or the fed-up garden gnome battles with the elf who sits on the shelf. Many poems and parodies to make you laugh out loud or until you cry; scream with hysterics or giggle within. Pull up...

Following her insightful, challenging first volume and autobiography, 'Julia' (2008), Julia presents her second volume in the form of an impressive, powerfully expressive and awareness-raising collection of poems. Ranging from the topographical to the...

A 112 page book, containing a 17,000 word interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative list of quotations from Heaney's critics and reviewers. Also included is Heaney's recent poem, 'Known World'What the critics...

Selected poetry by Jeanne Powell. Jeanne is a published poet and cultural critic, an author of flash fiction and film reviews. And an eternal word dancer.

American Noise is a rapturous exploration of American culture and landscape. With compassionate wit and insight, Campbell McGrath transports us on a journey through contemporary society, transforming the commonplace into scenes of profound revelation...

The ghazal is a challenging poetic form whose metrical couplets end with a single rhyme followed by a refrain. "Rhyme & Refrain" explores this form's potential in English: including complex internal rhymes; a libretto for an oratorio that demands...

In this new edition of the author's first collection of poems, he writes about those simple truths and everyday experiences that inevitably shape our lives. With uncompromising honesty, these poems speak with a vibrant, dynamic voice. In poetry simple...

Hearsay celebrates a woman's life from childhood to middle age, including the often-ignored subject of work, with a voice that is sometimes tender, sometimes whimsical, but always strong. The winner of the 2003 Poets Out Loud Prize, this collection...

This posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers-what she calls the "impossible bottle." With a strong will and a self-deprecating awareness of...

This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and other disasters, with appropriate measures of wit and grief. Profound and rewarding, Overlook showcases the gifts of a master poet at the height of his powers.

In a world of Black and White" where darkness covers the canvas everywhere I look.A dream a child wants instead of a land of hurt. If God created us equally, why do others smile when I frown?Why do I lack the energy to get out of bed? When will these...

From the Texas sky to a tropical rainforest, from milking cows to braiding hair, journey with author and illustrator Margery Hannah through the cruxes of life—love, loss, jealousy, and joy are among the book’s themes—until the last...

Shifting Bone works to make familiar again all the pieces of one's self that were almost forgotten. This collection speaks of one's aching for the unknown, the desperate need to become known to ourselves, and just how healing love can be...

This book is a brief glimpse into my life and the transformation God has made thus far. Experience the journey from the origination of Sunshine BlackRose to realization of life. Watch that realization lead to maturation bringing about the transformation...

More Poems from A to Y: No Z Yet is a continuation of Susan Frank’s wit and wisdom which captures the essence of universal experiences. From talking to a clever cat to dealing with feelings of guilt, she offers more of her unique and delightful...

Depression is so much more than just sadness. Comparing sadness and depression is like saying that getting wet and drowning are the same thing. These poems are about my co-existence with my mental illness - a glimpse into my "drowning...

Mark Dow's Plain Talk Rising opens when a boy opens his eyes to his mother's already-inescapable presence. It ends with the possibility of endlessness when the mother touches her own pregnant belly and "for the first time he knows she knows he is there...

The strength of the Newcastle Poetry Prize is that it encourages both emerging and more established writers to test out new work of an extended nature. We congratulate the winning, commended and shortlisted poets and would like to encourage all who...

Depression: The journey no one ever asked to go on. The Monsters in my Head is a personal project illustrating the cycle of depression through art and poetry. It’s here to prove things do get better and you are not alone.

ForewordOn 30 May, 2016, at 1.52 am, I woke from a dream and scribbled...Seventy three lines later I had penned (or rather channelled) a cryptic poem that seemed to contain an urgent message. At that stage I had no idea what it meant, but my intuition...

The Song of Globule is a collection of 80 sonnets, pursuing the oneiric preoccupations of a young femal protagonist living in Sydney who, if not suffering from multiple personality disorder, is certainly a fantasist. Her sensibilities are...

From the heart of Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community nestled in the sweeping desert landscapes of the Australian Outback, comes a collection of ponderings that capture over fifty years of observations and reflections. Wendy Baarda Nangala, a teacher...

This bilingual collection of poetry, presented in Irish and English side by side, features poems that touch the heart, soul and mind. Colin Ryan brings us on a mystical journey, depicting place and person, wrapped in evocative imagery of the Australian...

This book is a collection of poems, intended as the fourth volume from the author. It includes short poems and long poems. There are poems about writing poetry, poems about living, and poems about observing life. The poet may look with a hard eye at...

Angelo Letizia has crafted a wonderful collection of poems which examine impossibly large questions - What is truth? What is real? How can we know? - and looks for answers in a quizzical examination of the everyday. The poet is by turns baffled, amused,...

What a great premise for an anthology! And it succeeds, both in its celebration of our crazy culture and its fascinating analysis, through the poems, of popular myths that have stood the test of time." -KliattIn the past few decades, poetry about and...

This haiku collection was written in 2016, recalling a week's visit in September 1997 to an aunt and uncle's house in Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, after meeting with health problems while at Stirling University, and leaving the previous December. The...

This is a tale of surviving depression and anxiety through poetry. It is a walk through some of the darkest chapters of my life. The times where I saw no end to my pain and did not know how to express it to anyone. It is a collection of my confessions!...

A poem is a window into somebody's mind. The pages within this book allow you to peek through that window and into the creative side of a much-loved mind of the old wrestling scene.The average wrestler has a tough image. By taking the time to read this...

"incisivi e diretti, i versi di Matteo Bolognesi sono un affascinante miscuglio alchemico, i cui ingredienti sono consapevolezza e arte. Nella sua scrittura si percepisce chiaramente l'intento di comunicare una certezza, anche nelle sue accezioni più...

This is a collection of poems and short stories written over a long period of time. This is just a part of what I have written, there is more to come.Poetry is something I love to write, from my faith to life to everything in between.

Cíclico es circular, igual que las estaciones del año, las mareas y las relaciones.Después de una puesta de sol saldrá la luna, después de una ruptura habrá alguien nuevo y después del frío volverá el calor.No será invierno para siempre.

Continuing in the tradition of his Dark Radical Poetics, this sequel to the eschaton sequence sees the author continue a journey begun and assumedly ended with the conclusion of that sequence. Having survived an existential, moral, creative and mental...

Olivier Rieter studeerde geschiedenis in Nijmegen en Taal- en Cultuurstudies, met als specialisatie cultuureducatie, in Utrecht.Hij werkte voor een historische uitgeverij in Utrecht en voor het Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur en Immaterieel Erfgoed,...

David Erdos's chapbook celebrates the last five years of the life of film director John Cassavetes and Erdos's recently deceased friend the poet Heathcote Williams