Many untold stories are held in the kinks of afro hair. Winner of a Go Fund Me award, this fantasy-poem unravels the history of natural hairstyles and encourages children to love all of who they are.

A collection of poems that exhibit enormous casual elegance of mind and style, at the same time being friendly, touching and funny.

The much-anticipated first collection from Eric Gregory Award winner and a contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology.

Edited by two of the most exciting British poets in a generation, Something New is an anthology of one hundred fresh and exciting poems reflecting the weddings of today.

Presenting an American epic poem, and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races, this volume features rhythms and images, and its inclusive, praiseful joy.

The Song of Roland offers fascinating insights into medieval ideas about heroism, manhood, religion, race, & nationhood which were foundational for modern European culture. It is the oldest known surviving major work of French literature based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.

A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of a revolutionary publication by one of Britain's most important artists.

Showing the two contrary states of the Human Soul. With an introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

Sonnets for a Missing Key is a mesmerising feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.

Orpheus is Rilke's touchstone in the "Sonnets to Orpheus". Originating in reflections on the untimely death of a young girl, the poems express Rilke's sense of the beauty and transience of life, and the transforming possibilities of love.

A collection of poetry in which Dannie Abse returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity, Jewish folk tradition and the passing of time.

Provides careful annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment, and introductory material setting the poem - The Faerie Queene - in its historical and literary context. This book also includes additional original material, which includes a chronology, a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses, and dedicatory sonnets.

A study of Spenser and nationhood that examines the poet's canon within the dual contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment'. This book shows how the experience of writing from Ireland, intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty.

The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem, is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and political.

Features poems from "The Country at My Shoulder" (1993), "A Bowl of Warm Air" (1996), "Carrying My Wife" (2000), "Souls" (2002) and "How the Stone Found Its Voice" (2005).

An American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives.

A poetic, funny and touching memoir of childhood in the 1970s.

Tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

Poems to make you laugh, get you thinking and fill you with wonder - from one of the best-loved poets writing today.