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Whether you are after a collection of classic verse, an epic by one the great lyric poets of Ancient Greece, an anthology of animal poems, or a the latest Rupi Kaur, here you will find our huge range of prize-winning and best-loved poetry. From Dante to Carol Ann Duffy, and from Coleridge to Leonard Cohen, the candidates for your next lyrical favourite are endless.

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Our Best Poetry Books

Many Different Kinds of Love
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Many Different Kinds of Love
Michael Rosen
£14.99
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Home Body
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Home Body
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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Slug
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Slug
Hollie McNish
£14.99   £12.99
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Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
£9.99
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The Hill We Climb
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The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman
£9.99
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The Lost Spells
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The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane
£14.99
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£7.99
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey
£16.99
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And Still I Rise
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And Still I Rise
Dr Maya Angelou
£8.99
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
£10.99
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Pillow Thoughts
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Pillow Thoughts
Courtney Peppernell
£11.99
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Where Hope Comes From
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Where Hope Comes From
Nikita Gill
£14.99   £12.99
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shine your icy crown
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shine your icy crown
Amanda Lovelace
£9.99
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The Lost Words
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The Lost Words
Jackie Morris
£20.00
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
£20.00
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Dearly
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Dearly
Margaret Atwood
£14.99   £12.99
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Our Best New Poetry Books

The Hill We Climb
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The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman
£9.99
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Many Different Kinds of Love
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Many Different Kinds of Love
Michael Rosen
£14.99
Hardback
Slug
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Slug
Hollie McNish
£14.99   £12.99
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He Used Thought as a Wife
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He Used Thought as a Wife
Tim Key
£15.00
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shine your icy crown
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shine your icy crown
Amanda Lovelace
£9.99
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Where Hope Comes From
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Where Hope Comes From
Nikita Gill
£14.99   £12.99
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pandemonium
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pandemonium
Andrew McMillan
£10.00
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Poems to Fall in Love With
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Poems to Fall in Love With
Chris Riddell
£9.99
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Beowulf
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Beowulf
Maria Headley
£9.99
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Empty Nest
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Empty Nest
Carol Ann Duffy
£14.99
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How to Fly
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How to Fly
Barbara Kingsolver
£14.99
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Just Us
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Just Us
Claudia Rankine
£25.00
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September Love
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September Love
Lang Leav
£11.99
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A Poem for Every Spring Day
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A Poem for Every Spring Day
Allie Esiri
£14.99
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Night Feeds and Morning Songs
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Night Feeds and Morning Songs
Ana Sampson
£12.99
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Burns for Every Day of the Year
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Burns for Every Day of the Year
Pauline Mackay
£20.00
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Hiddensee
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Hiddensee
Annie Freud
£10.99
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Luxury Editions and Gift Books

Home Body
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Home Body
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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On Connection
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On Connection
Kae Tempest
£9.99
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
£12.99
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Poems to Save the World With
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Poems to Save the World With
Chris Riddell
£12.99
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
£20.00
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Swimming Lessons: Poems
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Swimming Lessons: Poems
Lili Reinhart
£9.99
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The Girl and the Goddess
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The Girl and the Goddess
Nikita Gill
£12.99
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Dearly
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Dearly
Margaret Atwood
£14.99   £12.99
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I Would Leave Me If I Could
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I Would Leave Me If I Could
Halsey
£16.99
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There are Girls like Lions
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There are Girls like Lions
Cole Swensen
£11.99
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Nobody Told Me
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Nobody Told Me
Hollie McNish
£9.99
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Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles
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Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles
Alan Titchmarsh
£12.99
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Up in the Attic
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Up in the Attic
Pam Ayres
£8.99
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Paris
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Paris
Hope Mirrlees
£9.99
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She Will Soar
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She Will Soar
Ana Sampson
£14.99
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
£10.99
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The Golden Treasury
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The Golden Treasury
Francis Turner Palgrave
£10.99
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Our Best Poetry Books for Children

The Lost Spells
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The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane
£14.99
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If You Go Down to the Woods Today
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If You Go Down to the Woods Today
Rachel Piercey
£14.99   £12.99
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The Lost Words
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The Lost Words
Jackie Morris
£20.00
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What Are Little Girls Made of?
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What Are Little Girls Made of?
Jeanne Willis
£9.99
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A First Book of Nature
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A First Book of Nature
Nicola Davies
£12.99
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Poems to Live Your Life By
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Poems to Live Your Life By
Chris Riddell
£12.99
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot
£8.99
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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A World Full of Poems
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A World Full of Poems
DK
£20.00
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Poems to Save the World With
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Poems to Save the World With
Chris Riddell
£12.99
Hardback
100 Best Poems for Children
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100 Best Poems for Children
Sheila Moxley
£12.99
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A Poem for Every Autumn Day
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A Poem for Every Autumn Day
Allie Esiri
£14.99
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A Poem for Every Winter Day
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A Poem for Every Winter Day
Allie Esiri
£14.99
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Treasure Troves

New and popular anthologies and collections

Night Feeds and Morning Songs
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Night Feeds and Morning Songs
Ana Sampson
£12.99
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Empty Nest
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Empty Nest
Carol Ann Duffy
£14.99
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Poems to Fall in Love With
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Poems to Fall in Love With
Chris Riddell
£9.99
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Places of Poetry
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Places of Poetry
Paul Farley
£12.99
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Apocalypse
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Apocalypse
James Keery
£19.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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A Poem for Every Spring Day
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A Poem for Every Spring Day
Allie Esiri
£14.99
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Dancing By The Light of The Moon
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Dancing By The Light of The Moon
Gyles Brandreth
£14.99
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A Poem for Every Autumn Day
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A Poem for Every Autumn Day
Allie Esiri
£14.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
William Sieghart
£12.99
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£7.99
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She is Fierce
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She is Fierce
Ana Sampson
£8.99
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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Poems to Live Your Life By
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Poems to Live Your Life By
Chris Riddell
£12.99
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Dog Poems
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Dog Poems
Various
£7.99
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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The Classics: Old & New

And Still I Rise
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And Still I Rise
Dr Maya Angelou
£8.99
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Counting Backwards
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Counting Backwards
Helen Dunmore
£14.99
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot
£10.99
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Book of Longing
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Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen
£9.99
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Collected Poems
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Collected Poems
Philip Larkin
£14.99
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The World's Wife
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The World's Wife
Carol Ann Duffy
£10.99
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Selected Poems
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Selected Poems
Rumi
£8.99
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Nobody
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Nobody
Alice Oswald
£10.00
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Complete Poems
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Complete Poems
Emily Dickinson
£20.00
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Selected Poems: Keats
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Selected Poems: Keats
John Keats
£8.99
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Gold from the Stone
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Gold from the Stone
Lemn Sissay
£9.99
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
T. S. Eliot
£10.99
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Poems
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Poems
William Blake
£7.99
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The Black Unicorn
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The Black Unicorn
Audre Lorde
£8.99
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987
Seamus Heaney
£14.99
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The Faber Series 

Collectable editions

The Hawk in the Rain
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The Hawk in the Rain
Ted Hughes
£10.00
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The Waste Land
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The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
£10.00
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Another Time
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Another Time
W.H. Auden
£10.00
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
£10.99
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Of Mutability
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Of Mutability
Jo Shapcott
£10.00
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High Windows
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High Windows
Philip Larkin
£10.00
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The Haw Lantern
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The Haw Lantern
Seamus Heaney
£10.00
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Serious Concerns
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Serious Concerns
Wendy Cope
£10.00
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Daljit Nagra
£10.00
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Four Quartets
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Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot
£12.99
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The Iron Wolf
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The Iron Wolf
Ted Hughes
£10.00
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John Clare
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John Clare
John Clare
£10.99
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Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
£10.00
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William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
£10.99
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John Keats
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John Keats
John Keats
£10.99
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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas
£10.00
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
£10.00
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Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
£10.99
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The Poetry World

Our best poetry biogrpahies and literary criticism
A Little History of Poetry
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A Little History of Poetry
John Carey
£14.99
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A Ghost In The Throat
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A Ghost In The Throat
Doireann Ni Ghriofa
£12.99
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How to Grow Your Own Poem
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How to Grow Your Own Poem
Kate Clanchy
£14.99
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The Making of Poetry
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The Making of Poetry
Adam Nicolson
£10.99
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Red Comet
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Red Comet
Heather Clark
£30.00   £25.99
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Memorial Drive
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Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey
£16.99
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I Wanna Be Yours
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I Wanna Be Yours
John Cooper Clarke
£20.00   £17.99
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Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
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Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
Kate Clanchy
£9.99   £7.99
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Parallel Lives
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Parallel Lives
Phyllis Rose
£10.99
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Somewhere Becoming Rain
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Somewhere Becoming Rain
Clive James
£12.99
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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Shakespearean
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Shakespearean
Robert McCrum
£14.99
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On Seamus Heaney
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On Seamus Heaney
Roy Foster
£14.99
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm Toibin
£9.99
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September 1, 1939
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September 1, 1939
Ian Sansom
£10.99
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My Name Is Why
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My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay
£9.99   £7.99
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Useless Magic
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Useless Magic
Florence Welch
£20.00
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Stranger Than Kindness
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Stranger Than Kindness
Nick Cave
£35.00
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