POETRY
In the words of Dylan Thomas, "a good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it." To aid Dylan's claim, here's an assortment of the best that poetry can offer.
Here lie classics like June Jordan, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Audre Lorde. And those at the cutting edge of contemporary poetry, such as Len Pennie, Hollie McNish, Peter Gizzi & more.
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Len Pennie
New Cemetery
Simon Armitage
Virgin
Hollie McNish
Magadh
Shrikant Verma
A Christmas Ghost Story
Carol Ann Duffy
Old World
Robert Crawford
Goatsong
Phoebe Giannisi
Highway Cottage
Ralf Webb
Maryville
Joelle Taylor
The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Collected Poems
Wendy Cope
Joy Is My Middle Name
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
The Empire of Forgetting
John Burnside
Stop All the Clocks
W.H. Auden
Foretokens
Sarah Howe
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Len Pennie
Scanty Plot of Ground
Paul Muldoon
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
Tove Ditlevsen
The New Carthaginians
Nick Makoha
When It Rained for a Million Years
Paul Farley
Dwell
Simon Armitage
Holy Boys
Andrés N. Ordorica
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John Cooper Clarke
Ash Keys
Michael Longley
Lobster
Hollie McNish
Namanlagh
Tom Paulin
That Broke into Shining Crystals
Richard Scott
Dog Show
Billy Collins
This Is Not a Small Voice
Sonia Sanchez
Water, Water
Billy Collins
Judas Goat
Gabrielle Bates
Mouth
Mona Arshi
Robert Burns - Nature Poems
Robert Burns
Swell
Maria Ferguson
To the Women - The New Collection of Wise Words Every Woman Needs
Donna Ashworth
Let the Light Pour In
Lemn Sissay
The Oasis
Charles Lang
Poems from an Attic
Iris Murdoch
Wellwater
Karen Solie
The Little Review
Avidya
Vidyan Ravinthiran
Bycatch
Caroline Smith
Chaotic Good
Isabelle Baafi
The Forward Book of Poetry 2026
Various Poets
Heirloom
Catherine-Esther Cowie
An Interesting Detail
Kimberly Campanello
My Mum and Other Poems
Laura Dockrill
Ten Poems about Birds
Katharine Towers
A Dress of Locusts
Safa Khatib
Christmas Tree
Di Slaney
a grammar of the world
Jeanne Benameur
In the Hollow of the Wave
Nina Mingya Powles
Midden Witch
Fiona Benson
Night Watch
Kevin Young
The Sky Around My Father
Emilie Jelinek
So What
Frederick Seidel
Strange Beach
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Transfigurations
Jay Wright
Earth Prayers
Carol Ann Duffy
This Is How I Fight
Rosie Garland
With Love, Grief and Fury
Salena Godden
Aednan
Linnea Axelsson
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
The Book of Jonah
Luke Kennard
Cancer
Tom Raworth
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Forest of Noise
Mosab Abu Toha
Fower Pessoas
Colin Bramwell
A History of England in 25 Poems
Catherine Clarke
Hôtel Amour
Deryn Rees-Jones
The Lake Poets
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb and Robert Southey
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Gillian Allnutt
Minx
Karen Downs-Barton
Nature Matters
Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf
Nobody Asked For This
Charly Cox
Sculling
Sophie Dumont
Selected Poems
Jen Hadfield
Selected Poems
Maurice Riordan
So Far So Good
Ursula K. Le Guin
Something New
Caroline Bird
Ten Poems about Fathers
Di Slaney
Ten Poems about Weather
Graham Mort
Ten Poems from the Lake District
Polly Atkin
Versus Versus
Rachael Boast
White Teeth, Red Blood
Various Authors
You Took the Last Bus Home
Brian Bilston
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
Ecstasy
Alex Dimitrov
Foxglovewise
Ange Mlinko
Joy Chose You: Words for Hope, Comfort and Light
Donna Ashworth
Modern Poetry
Diane Seuss
Passion
David Morley
A Bookseller Recommends...
The Age of Olive Trees
Haia Mohammed
"These poems bear witness to the oppression faced by the people of Gaza. Mohammed’s use of form is incredible, using space to generate silence in a setting where this seems impossible.
The undercurrent of Mohammed’s work is love. Love for her family who are still living through this. Mohammed’s poetry and the work of other Palestinian writers is some of the most important poetry we have today." ~ Zain, Edinburgh
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That Broke Into Shining Crystals
Richard Scott
"No description of this collection will do it justice. A masterpiece of radical queerness, Scott’s work is deeply human, heartbreaking in its confrontation of trauma. Ultimately, it rejects the premise of entropy, instead standing as a testament to the possibility of beauty, wisdom, and understanding." ~ Charlie, Edinburgh
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The New Carthaginians
Nick Makoha
In The New Carthaginians, time - and with it the world - is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that will lead to Idi Amin's Uganda becoming a pariah state and, within a few years, to the young Nick Makoha's flight from the country.
Drawing on Basquiat's technique of the 'exploded' collage, our heroes' odyssey gathers the symbols of a new mythos, through which the othering of Black life might be undone and the stage set for some fresh emergence, some transfigured understanding of myth and life.
"One of the most original collections I have read in recent years - and one of my favourites." ~ Zain, Edinburgh
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
Pilgrim Bell
Kaveh Akbar
Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith
Unexpected Vanilla
Hyemi Lee
The Ink Cloud Reader
Kit Fan
So To Speak
Terrance Hayes
Quiet
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Notes on The Sonnets
Luke Kennard
When the Flies Come
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
A Year in the New Life
Jack Underwood
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan
The Home Child
Liz Berry
Zong!
M. Nourbese Philip
Self-Portrait as Othello
Jason Allen-Paisant
Manorism
Yomi Sode
The Ink Dark Moon
Izumi Shikibu and Ono no Komachi
Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri
with your chest
The Islands of Chile
