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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

Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
£9.99
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Time is a Mother
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Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
£14.99   £12.99
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100 Poems
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100 Poems
Seamus Heaney
£9.99
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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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Inferno
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Inferno
Dante
£5.99
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Orlam
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Orlam
PJ Harvey
£16.99   £14.99
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Pillow Thoughts
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Pillow Thoughts
Courtney Peppernell
£11.99
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Home Body
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Home Body
Rupi Kaur
£14.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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The Iliad
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The Iliad
Homer
£16.99
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The Prophet
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
£8.99
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Lyrics
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Lyrics
Bryan Ferry
£20.00   £17.99
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
£10.99
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Many Different Kinds of Love
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Many Different Kinds of Love
Michael Rosen
£9.99   £8.49
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
John Cooper Clarke
£10.99
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£7.99
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Fear Stalks the Land!
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Fear Stalks the Land!
Thom Yorke
£9.99
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Our Best New Poetry Books

Life is Sad and Beautiful
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Life is Sad and Beautiful
Hussain Manawer
£12.99
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Time is a Mother
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Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
£14.99   £12.99
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Lyrics
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Lyrics
Bryan Ferry
£20.00   £17.99
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Slug
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Slug
Hollie McNish
£8.99   £7.49
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I Wish I Knew
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I Wish I Knew
Donna Ashworth
£9.99   £7.99
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More Fiya
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More Fiya
Kayo Chingonyi
£16.99
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Call Us What We Carry
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Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman
£14.99
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The Fire People
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The Fire People
Lemn Sissay
£16.99
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Frolic and Detour
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Frolic and Detour
Paul Muldoon
£10.99
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Love and Other Poems
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Love and Other Poems
Alex Dimitrov
£10.99
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All the Flowers Kneeling
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All the Flowers Kneeling
Paul Tran
£12.99
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The Built Moment
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The Built Moment
Lavinia Greenlaw
£10.99
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Girlhood
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Girlhood
Julia Copus
£10.99
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Collected Poems
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Collected Poems
Kingsley Amis
£12.99
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Cain Named The Animal
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Cain Named The Animal
Shane McCrae
£10.99
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Garden Physic
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Garden Physic
Sylvia Legris
£10.99
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Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
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Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Gayl Jones
£12.99
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Luxury Editions and Gift Books

Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
£10.99
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
£14.99
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The Lost Words
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The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane
£20.00
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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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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
£9.99
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Where Hope Comes From
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Where Hope Comes From
Nikita Gill
£14.99
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
£20.00
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£20.00
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The Unwinding
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The Unwinding
Jackie Morris
£14.99
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The Waste Land
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The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
£10.00
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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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Books and Libraries
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Books and Libraries
Various
£12.00
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Poems
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Poems
Louise Gluck
£30.00
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Many Different Kinds of Love
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Many Different Kinds of Love
Michael Rosen
£14.99
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Dearly
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Dearly
Margaret Atwood
£14.99
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The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
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The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
Kathleen Jamie
£30.00
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The Heeding
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The Heeding
Rob Cowen
£12.99
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Life is Sad and Beautiful
Life is Sad and Beautiful
Hussain Manawer
£12.99
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The debut collection from the poet and mental health campaigner channels Manawer's grief at the loss of his mother into a heartbreaking and lyrical volume that consoles as much as it challenges.

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Our best books of song lyrics

Lyrics
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Lyrics
Bryan Ferry
£20.00   £17.99
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Fear Stalks the Land!
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Fear Stalks the Land!
Thom Yorke
£9.99
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The Flame
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The Flame
Leonard Cohen
£16.99
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Useless Magic
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Useless Magic
Florence Welch
£12.99
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The Work
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The Work
Frightened Rabbit
£14.99
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Mother, Brother, Lover
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Mother, Brother, Lover
Jarvis Cocker
£10.99
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How To Be Invisible
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How To Be Invisible
Kate Bush
£16.99
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Side by Side
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Side by Side
Robert Wyatt
£14.99
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Sundog
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Sundog
Scott Walker
£14.99
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Keep 'Er Lit
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Keep 'Er Lit
Van Morrison
£14.99
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Morning Glory on the Vine
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Morning Glory on the Vine
Joni Mitchell
£30.00
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Forever Words
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Forever Words
Johnny Cash
£9.99
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So This is Permanence
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So This is Permanence
Ian Curtis
£25.00
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The Lyrics of Syd Barrett
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The Lyrics of Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett
£14.99
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I'll Be Your Mirror
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I'll Be Your Mirror
Lou Reed
£25.00
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Wrote For Luck
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Wrote For Luck
Shaun Ryder
£14.99
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The Complete Lyrics
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The Complete Lyrics
Nick Cave
£14.99
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One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
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One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
Neil Tennant
£14.99
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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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The Lost Words
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The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane
£20.00
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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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Revolting Rhymes
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Revolting Rhymes
Roald Dahl
£5.99
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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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100 Best Poems for Children
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100 Best Poems for Children
Sheila Moxley
£12.99
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£20.00
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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
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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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Carnival of the Animals
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Carnival of the Animals
Michael Morpurgo
£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
£8.99
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Tomorrow Is Beautiful
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Tomorrow Is Beautiful
Sarah Crossan
£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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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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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
£9.99
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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
£8.99
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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 Faber Series 

Collectable editions

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
£10.99
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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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The Hawk in the Rain
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The Hawk in the Rain
Ted Hughes
£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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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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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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Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
£10.99
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The Classics: Old & New

And Still I Rise
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And Still I Rise
Dr Maya Angelou
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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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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Complete Poems
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Complete Poems
Emily Dickinson
£20.00
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Selected Poetry
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Selected Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins
£7.99
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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 Poetry World

Our best poetry biographies and literary criticism
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
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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
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Parallel Lives
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Parallel Lives
Phyllis Rose
£11.99
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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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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
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Stranger Than Kindness
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Stranger Than Kindness
Nick Cave
£35.00
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Dante
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Dante
Alessandro Barbero
£20.00
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William Blake vs the World
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William Blake vs the World
John Higgs
£20.00
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