The time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people ask him to speak of love, marriage, time, sorrow, friendship and children. The Prophet's replies are illuminating and humane and provide a guide to living. First publication in 1923, this title has been translated into more than 20 languages.

The inspirational masterpiece from the Lebanese born poet, philospher and artist

Written as a collection of poetic essays, and detailing such diverse and sprawling topics as love, death, pleasure and prayer, The Prophet was an immediate success on its initial publication in 1923, and has since been translated into more than a hundred languages.

The fifth instalment of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give.

In June 2022, Her Majesty the Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after seventy years of service. It is published here as a signed limited edition pamphlet, to be kept and cherished as a souvenir of this majestic moment in history.

Features a poem in which four individuals are haunted in different ways by what they have not forgotten. This is a collection in which, whether recent or distant, personal or cultural, the past is keenly felt. The poems range from the barbaric civility of the classical world to the perplexed certainties of the present.

Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry

This book provides a radical reading of Edmund Spenser and argues for a re-orientation in Renaissance criticism.

The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its the story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana. Incorporating elements of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and secular versions, the author creates a consciously multicultural Ramayana.

A collection of poems whose topics range from the nightmare paintings of Bosch and Breughel to the findings of modern science, on which subject Holub is a specialist in the field of immunology. He also wrote "`The Dimension of the Present Moment' and Other Essays" and "Vanishing Lung Syndrome".

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American politics.

Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's debut poetry collection 're: desire' explores the yearning to love, be loved and belong from a desi (South Asian) perspective. Her work sits on the intersections of flash fiction, poetry and script, echoing the hybridity of the worlds that many young British desis find themselves occupying.

The author is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. This book tells his story.

Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester. He has been published in press as diverse as the the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent to The Face and Dazed & Confused. He has been commissioned to write poetry, documentaries and plays for Radio 1 and Radio 4. This book deals with his work.

Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough, ranging across birdlife, Grindr and My Little Pony while also addressing social issues from homelessness to homophobia.

Lets us join G as he travels with his friend and lover 'Sad' (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G's mother must face her death.

A career-defining collection from one of America's most significant poets, never before published in the UK.