Poetry Books

This anthology contains samples of the poetic work of Russian philosophers of five generations, starting with the classics of the Silver Age (Karsavin, Florensky and Losev) and ending with philosophers who were born in Soviet times in the second half of...

Bruce Kauffman’s poetry, particularly in this latest collection, an evening absence still waiting for moon, is full of light. There is a sensation of delicate fingers lithely travelling over the ivory keys of a piano and producing a melody so...

In The Borrowed World, Emily Leithauser transforms keenly felt experience and bittersweet memories into poems of impressive craftsmanship. She deftly muses on the dichotomies of, among other things, childhood and growing up, the headiness of love gained...

Odyssey is perhaps the greatest adventure story ever told, but it is more even than that. It is the story of a man's homecoming, the story of a yearning for hearth and home, for the familiar and native. It is also a story of burning revenge, of a man's...

Funny and heartbreaking, Australian Paul Whitby's poetry book How to Measure the Distance of Things resides somewhere between the head and the heart. Follow the narrator as he drifts through rural Victoria and New South Wales, house-sitting. See him hug...

DescriptionThis anthology of poems was written by the author throughout his adult life.Many were found in his flat after his death scribbled on pieces of paper, written in diaries or typewritten. Others had been handed to family members from time to time...

You can find a rhyme for anything, if you only know where to look and how to think. And Richard Booth certainly does! In this anthology, he covers subjects from first loves to marriage, from rugby to horse racing, from school days to working life, all...

Description'Looking For Atlantis' is about a kid who wants to change the world.'Looking For Atlantis' is about a kid who wants to change the world.'Looking For Atlantis' is about a kid who wants to change the world.'Looking...

The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2022 features poetry by Gordon Alexander, Lisa Blackwell, Cecile Bol, Ken Bolton, Jessica Bundschuh, Geraldine Clarkson, Angelina D'Roza, Lucy Hamilton, Denis Harnedy, Finn Haunch, Jill Jones, L...

Bridget Khursheed's interest is in ecopoetry and the teetering intersections between landscape (or the shape of things), nature and population. Her new collection, The Last Days of Petrol, centres on how we cannot imagine that the world as we know is...

If the right poets for the times don’t exist, then they have to be invented.     Working in collaboration with a team of real writers, Robert Sheppard has created a lively and entertaining anthology of fictional European poets...

Cameron Gearen's first full-length collection of poetry, Some Perfect Year, opens with a poem entitled Invitation, and it's one we should heed. "Come with stones and a selectively green car. / I've set aside a weekend for crying and sleeping," the poem...

Luisa Futoransky is a poet of lived experience above all, though not hers alone; other voices inhabit the work, whether of friends, lovers, fellow travellers (people she met or figures from history and literature). Like her fiction, the poetry employs a...

These are poems which are ostensibly about pirates yet the subtext has a satirical impulse which is fuelled by surrealism and a delight in upending the apple cart. The author revels in entertaining juxtapositions and in breathless passages of...

Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles's shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max Beckmann. Heller navigates, sometimes with Yeats as...

Claire Crowther's fifth collection, A Pair of Three, is her most personal yet, a story of marriage to a widower. It explores a trio, wife, husband and first wife, in a love story that is moving, uplifting, often funny but rarely told. The emotional...

Following the publication of Tottel's Miscellany in 1557, a number of other such miscellanies appeared, few of them important from an artistic point of view. In 1593, however, a still-unidentified gentleman known only by his initials (R.S.) published...

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk,...

'The act of taking human form is not for the faint-hearted.' Jo D'arc's magical text takes the reader on a journey across the elements as Minerva wakes and explores the earth. This fantasy tale, printed in pamphlet form with original poetry, is part...

A collection of poems encapsulating the feeling of being twenty-one.Covering such themes as fear, love, friendship, the inevitable speeding passage of time and the worry that you will never be able to be the person you dreamed you could be, these...

Nostalgia is a blessing and a curse in one breath. To love and be loved in return - not every lover is fortunate enough to experience it. Ria Kid in her book of verses, The Muse of Manifestations, wants to leave no doubt in the mind of the person she...

"It's so good you're settled in your own place. It's what your mother would have wanted." I remember being told that, about a year after she died. I was struggling to keep hold of a job that was closing the walls in on me...and to keep a flat that felt...

A collection of poems and short stories from the prolific Bristol-based poet, writer and artist, George Austin Wills that has been compiled with submissions from friends and family who have had the pleasure of receiving his musings over the years, each...

Winter is a season of frozen beauty and the slowing of time, as a white breath falls against the browning leaves and winter tightens her grip over the sleeping landscape. It is a time of solitude and reflection as people and animals shelter from the cold...

'For lovers of springtime...'Within the pages of P.J. Reed's gorgeous collection, Haiku Yellow, you will find haiku that will transport you to the unspoilt Devon countryside in Spring. This collection bursts with excitement and drama, as the...

Words That Matter attempts to spark conversation around social issues that are often neglected either for their lack of beauty or sheer rigidity. These issues are mainly cultural and political. It further seeks to community hope in its purest form,...

"Dead But Not Forgotten" contains a selection of Apgar's verses most of which accurately chronicle some significant historical events and are familiar to readers if only in general terms. Also in this volume is some imaginative verse sure to touch on hot...

Last of the Marlboro Men is an unapologetic story of growing up in the Canadian frontier, a study of family relations and a treatise on spiritual metamorphosis. This collection of poetry and prose follows the author's life through tragedy and triumph,...

魏晋南北朝（公元220～公元589年）是中国历史上政权更迭频繁，社会混乱，民族冲突尖锐的时期。这时期的诗歌仍然在文学上占有最重要的地位，题材也更多样化，成为动乱的三百多年的一面镜子。诗歌的形式和风格也更丰富。五言诗得到了大发展。出现的七言歌行，为以后的七言诗的发展做出了贡献。南北朝的民歌也十分令人惊奇。本集所选的爱情诗歌，有的出自民歌，有的出自文人作家。可以发现，大多数情诗以女性题材为主，其叙述者为男性，而诗中的主人翁则为女性。因此那些为数不多的女性叙述者的作品，则格外特别和迷人。此时期的情诗，常常直接描...

The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40...

In All My Salt propels the reader through the examinations of the after-effects of abuse, the hardness of trauma, and the difficulties of ill-fated relationships. This poetry collection is sharp and biting, angry and raw, and unrelenting in its...

darkness or daystars or the sunlightwith younone of it mattersthe descent of my egonor the predestined doom A collection of poetry and prose, this book travels through stages of love and healing, shedding a burden of unspoken words, raw and unfiltered. A...

Canadian poet, Lucky Ryder's collection "O.G. Indigo" is comprised of poetry centering around concepts of romance and philosophy. It also includes forward thinking written hip-hop and rejoicing in the paintings brought to life by stimulating word play.

B' e an Ròsarnach iris a dheasaich is a chuir Ruaraidh Arascain is Mhàrr a-mach ann an ceithir leabhraichean bho 1917 gu 1930. Bha i na ceum adhartach dha-rìribh aig an àm, agus i a' gabhail a-steach a h-uile cruth is cusipair sgrìobhaidh a dh'fhaodte a...

Fretwell uses indents, varied line lengths, and single line stanzas to emphasize her verse that reflect both poise and poignancy on the impact humans are having on the planet. Her earthy affection is delivered in a contemporary Canadian style that, put...

Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very...

The thread running through this collection of poems is relationship, but many take a scientific perspective. In most ecological systems the process of photosynthesis is responsible for the creation of food from inorganic carbon dioxide and water,...

The Rámáyan is one of the first and most important Hindu epic poems telling the story of the hero Rama as he is exiled from his home because of his father's second wife. He then wanders the forests for over a decade and marries his true love Sita who is...

In the words of author Sheldon H. Clark, "Thematic unity of subject, selected scripture, Quaker quotations, sympathetic thoughts, and personal reflections are united by metaphor. One might consider this eclectic collection an all-purpose carryall into...

For me, poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me, interspersed with poems that I simply like...

Thérèse Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave, the flight of cockatoos ‘yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers’ (‘Black Cockatoos’). She searches for ancestral...

Cicada Chimes is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse; it moves from a funeral service in Rookwood, to a honeymoon in Paris, to the morning markets in Serres, Greece, and a church service in Surry Hills. The...

'The poetry of Keith MacNider is like a ground spring, rising from deep within and lifting the reader to the airy grace of rivers, trees, stones, clouds, and to our human connection to the past and to the land. As a boy in Hong Kong, Keith spent hours...

'In The Density of Compact Bone, Magdalena Ball stuns with her elegantly constructed paean to earth, sky, water and her requiem to loss, both ecological and personal. Luxuriating in finely crafted imagery of plant and bird life and intimate personal...

One of the finest and most prolific poets ever to grace the Bega Valley Shire of New South Wales, Anna Buck was noted for her humour, attention to detail, and love of both people and the natural world. Her work, selected here by fellow poet Dr Tim...

Learning to speak, read and write with my mother are happy childhood memories. From that time I developed a life long passion for words and reading. More recently I have discovered an intense desire to write poetry. It’s as if I am learning to...