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In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning o...

Edited from archival lectures, captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against politica...

A beautifully redesigned edition to celebrate 40 years since first publication, and the iconic relationship between Ted Hughes and Leonard BaskinForty years after it was first published, Ted Hughes's presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction by the nature writer Tim Dee.T...

From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relati...

“The most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators." ―Michael Dirda, Washington PostA gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry.Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, (1905) marks the origin of Rainer...

the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties and...

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde’s luminous writings have inspired a new generatio...

Highly Commended, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Poetrya journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced...

A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes“Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before a translator exceeds the standard that she has set."—A...

Li Qingzhao is justly celebrated for her place in Chinese literary history. She was a poet with a wry, unsentimental style and a rich sense of melody. Her ci – lyrics that were originally set to music – are glorious in their depth and genius, spare and arresting on the line. They evoke with rare...

the keenly anticipated debut collection from award-winning Otepoti-Dunedin poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis. Pickens is an eco-pioneer of words, attuned to the fine murmurings of...

Explore the enchanting works of Rumi in this beautifully packaged poetry collection.For more than eight centuries, the poems of Persian mystic poet and Sufi master Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi have enthralled and inspired readers from every faith and background. Rumi’s enduring legacy is a test...

"Lines that make me want to have sex on the moon."-Thurston Moorea book-length epistolary love poem that directly addresses a recently lost "you"-in accessible tones yet with extreme erudition and fierce intellect-but that also directly addresses the work of poetic address, how it shifts when the yo...

Light Film explores the cinema of heartache. Thorough in its quest for drama, this collection of poems threads a personal narrative through kaleidoscoping imagery, in turns erotic, violent, and contemplative. Performing a shifting subject position, the speaker of this book finds humour, shelter, and...

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodi...

'' is a creative writing deck developed by poets Ella Frears and Jessica Todd, designed to inspire new poetic ideas through play and experimentation. The card deck combines generative writing prompts with classic fruit machine symbols to encourage experimentation, play, and poetic development. The s...

‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - GuardianThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in Earth Prayers span widely across time, but in their moments of jo...

"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.

The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to s...

A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first col...

In her full-length poetry debut, , Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) finds herself on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, writing to and from Tāmaki Makaurau and San Francisco.From Overseas, billionaires, the digital realm, Dr. Ropata and a rogue pōhutukawa collide. It’s a world beyond the long...

A powerfully moving debut poetry collection about the violence of colonialist occupationOne more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest―Hasib HouraniHasib Hourani’s a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on...

Here at last is a new edition of a famous early work by Bernadette Mayer, one of the most beloved, radical, and witty American poetsThis landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally avail...

the first collection of poems from Liam Jacobson (Kai Tahu). Written among the shadows of Tāmaki Makaurau, it honours fog and bus-rides, being broke, and public dreams. It's an intimate attempt to chronicle a long remembering among the city's blurring romance.