New work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay

The first full-length study of Grace Nichols's writing combines feminist and postcolonial reading strategies and places her work in both a Caribbean and black British context. It also shows how Nichols's poetry explores the boundaries of race, class, and gender.

Bright, elemental and as dexterously brilliant as ever, this book features authors collection of songs, serenades, literary cameos, an ode to a golden anniversary, a long letter to an old friend, and two majestic sequences.

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today? The Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance;

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today? The Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance;

In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VII, Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.

Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups.

Exploring the reservoir of wrong headed questions with which love and death confront us, this volume offers a collection beguiling poems.

Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss--including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother--joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein.ical vein.

Faber 90th Anniversary edition of Hughes's first and groundbreaking poetry collection.

Features a collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. This title includes poems, such as: 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and 'Wind'.

A much needed, inspiring collection of poems both old and new written by queer poets.

York Notes for GCSE offer an approach to English Literature that aims to help readers achieve a better grade. This series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of today's students. The new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more.

In this exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope attempts to prove that misery does not have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which is unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and solitude, music, food and drink and books.

From two bestselling and award-winning writers on landscape comes a luminously illustrated meditation on our relationship with the natural world and each other through four unprecedented seasons & a global pandemic.

A retelling in verse of the life of Hekate, a child of war turned all-powerful goddess of witchcraft, necromancy and crossroads, by internationally bestselling and beloved poet Nikita Gill.

This anthology brings together an extraordinary range of poems, exemplifying that, if we let it, poetry has a unique power to enrich our lives as it diversifies them. The poems are arranged in a series of ten concentric rings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space.

In this anthology, Andrew Motion has brought together a wide range of poems, exemplifying his belief that, if we let it, poetry has a unique power to enrich our lives as it diversifies them.

A collection of high-spirited poems. The poet considers herself a city person who prefers shopping, eating and romance to hopping over cowpats on a country walk.

Hiding to Nothing suggests that complex and damaging legacies in all their forms can create shockwaves that reverberate over a lifetime, stopping lives from reaching their full potential. Bloodfruit gives voice to the less heard narratives of infertility and difficult trajectories towards becoming, or not becoming, a 'mother'.