Containing more than a hundred poems, accompanied by original photographs, and spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book focuses on the sprawling oeuvre.
The poems of Walk Song build through a series of sequences which look to animate solidarities and the languages of rights. These are poems of friendship and movement, landscape and politics, action and hope.
One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back.
For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer's Iliad. As each instalment, from Kings to Cold Calls, was published, it became clear that this was to be Logue's masterpiece. This title collects his notebook drafts for the final volume, Big Men Falling a Long Way.
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers.
Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in "The Old Huntsman" (1917) and "Counter-Attack" (1918). Chronologically ordered, this collection of poems act as a timeline for the war, bringing to life the extraordinary experiences of soldiers in that conflict.
Warriors won the Aryamati poetry prize in 2021. The pamphlet spans a thirty-year history, against the shadow of the Sri Lankan civil war, told from the voices of first and second generation British Tamils. We are privy to a poetic sensibility that seamlessly interweaves themes of migration and conflict with empathy and a deftness of touch.
Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation between the two World Wars. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
A book of poems that is at once personal and political. It registers the shock waves of global tumult in the most intimately domestic of settings, while at the same time constantly feeling its way outward through private experience into the larger arenas of social and civic drama.
Julian Bishop has had a lifelong interest in ecology and worked for a time as Environment Reporter for BBC Wales. He's now a member of the collective group Poets For The Planet. A former runner-up in the Ginkgo Prize for Eco Poetry, he's been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize.
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment' (The School Librarian).
Poems, short fiction and scripts from UK Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing writers. Our theme is movement. Edited by Liosa Kelly co-editor of Magma 69, The Deaf Issue; co-Chair of Magma Poetry, and |Sophie Stone (RADA trained actor, Writer: Paine's Plough, The Bunker, BBC Radio 3 and Co-founder of DH Ensemble theatre Co) and with a preface from Raymond Antrobus.
THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND ALL OF US ARE ALWAYS VARIED AND SOMETIMES EVEN MYSTERIOUS. WE ARE NEVER QUITE SURE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT WHAT IS DRIVING OURSELVES OR OTHERS IN THE COURSE OF OUR DAILY LIVES.
From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, the author grew from an aspiring poet by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. This volume proffers lush images of western Ireland full of faeries and otherworldly beings.