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Our Best Poetry Books

Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
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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 Sun and Her Flowers
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The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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Poems to Live Your Life By
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Poems to Live Your Life By
Chris Riddell
£10.99
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Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
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Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Christopher Reid
£14.99   £11.99
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The Flame
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The Flame
Leonard Cohen
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She Must Be Mad
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She Must Be Mad
Charly Cox
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Fierce Fairytales
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Fierce Fairytales
Nikita Gill
£12.99
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Running Upon The Wires
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Running Upon The Wires
Kate Tempest
£9.99
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The River in the Sky
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The River in the Sky
Clive James
£14.99
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The Long Take
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The Long Take
Robin Robertson
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£7.99   £5.99
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She is Fierce
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She is Fierce
Ana Sampson
£12.99
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The Last Hedgehog
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The Last Hedgehog
Pam Ayres
£6.99
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100 Poems
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100 Poems
Seamus Heaney
£10.99   £8.99
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Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
£14.99
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the witch doesn't burn in this one
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the witch doesn't burn in this one
Amanda Lovelace
£9.99
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Sincerity
Sincerity
Carol Ann Duffy
£14.99
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Sincerity is Duffy's final collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the Costa Award-winning The Bees. Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of life. There are moving elegies here for what has departed; whether that be children who have flown the nest, a way of life, literary luminaries, past loves, lost parents or our own youth. As Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, she finds moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life.

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Poems of the Present 

Our best new poetry books

How To Be Invisible
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How To Be Invisible
Kate Bush
£14.99
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Sincerity
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Sincerity
Carol Ann Duffy
£14.99
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Armistice
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Armistice
Carol Ann Duffy
£12.99
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to make monsters out of girls
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to make monsters out of girls
Amanda Lovelace
£9.99
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The Golden Treasury
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The Golden Treasury
Francis Turner Palgrave
£10.99
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I
T. S. Eliot
£25.00
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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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The Forward Book of Poetry 2019
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2019
Various Poets
£9.99
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Off The Shelf
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Off The Shelf
Carol Ann Duffy
£8.99
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The Scottish Ambassador
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The Scottish Ambassador
Robert Crawford
£10.00
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The People's Favourite Poems
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The People's Favourite Poems
Gary Dexter
£12.99
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The Perseverance
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The Perseverance
Raymond Antrobus
£9.99
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For Every One
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For Every One
Jason Reynolds
£5.00
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Selected Poems
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Selected Poems
Kathleen Jamie
£14.99
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem
Jeremy Noel-Tod
£25.00
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The Cat in the Treble Clef
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The Cat in the Treble Clef
Louis de Bernières
£12.99
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The Poetry Cure 

A poem for every mood

Stressed, Unstressed
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Stressed, Unstressed
Jonathan Bate
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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All Through the Night
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All Through the Night
Marie Heaney
£12.99
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The Emergency Poet
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The Emergency Poet
Deborah Alma
£9.99   £7.99
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Of Love and Desire
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Of Love and Desire
Louis de Bernières
£14.99
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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Anthony Holden
£9.99
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Poetry Please: Love Poems
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Poetry Please: Love Poems
Various Poets
£8.99
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Peace Talks
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Peace Talks
Sir Andrew Motion
£10.99
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Holden
£9.99
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Poem For The Day One
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Poem For The Day One
Nicholas Albery
£14.99
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Staying Alive
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Staying Alive
Neil Astley
£12.00
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Lifesaving Poems
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Lifesaving Poems
Anthony Wilson
£12.00
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Soul Food
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Soul Food
Neil Astley
£7.99
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Treasure Troves

New and popular anthologies and collections

Poetry Please: The Seasons
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Poetry Please: The Seasons
Various Poets
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The People's Favourite Poems
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The People's Favourite Poems
Gary Dexter
£12.99
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2019
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2019
Various Poets
£9.99
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Best-Loved Poems
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Best-Loved Poems
Ana Sampson
£9.99
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Favourite Poems of England
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Favourite Poems of England
Jane McMorland-Hunter
£9.99
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Penguin's Poems for Life
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Penguin's Poems for Life
Laura Barber
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Penguin's Poems for Love
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Penguin's Poems for Love
Laura Barber
£10.99   £8.99
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Favourite Flower Poems
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Favourite Flower Poems
£9.99
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We British
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We British
Andrew Marr
£12.99
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Poetry by Heart
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Poetry by Heart
Julie Blake
£12.99
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100 Prized Poems
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100 Prized Poems
William Sieghart
£9.99
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
Alan Bennett
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Windharp
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Windharp
Niall MacMonagle
£9.99
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Best-Loved Poems
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Best-Loved Poems
Neil Philip
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Poetry Please
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Poetry Please
Various Poets
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Poems to Learn by Heart
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Poems to Learn by Heart
Ana Sampson
£12.99
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2018
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2018
Various Poets
£9.99
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The Penguin Pocket Poetry Series

Beautiful new clothbound collections of poetry with covers designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith. 

Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
£10.00
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A Shropshire Lad
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A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman
£10.00
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Wessex Poems and Other Verses
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Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Thomas Hardy
£10.00
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Poems
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Poems
Wilfred Owen
£10.00
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Lyrical Ballads
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Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
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Leaves of Grass
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
£10.00
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The Tower
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The Tower
W. B. Yeats
£10.00
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Goblin Market and Other Poems
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Goblin Market and Other Poems
Christina G. Rossetti
£10.00
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The Temple
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The Temple
George Herbert
£10.00
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Ten Poems about Robins
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Ten Poems about Robins
Hamish Whyte
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Ten Poems About Friendship
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Ten Poems About Friendship
Lorraine Mariner
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Ten Poems About Love
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Ten Poems About Love
Jenny Swann
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Ten Poems of Kindness
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Ten Poems of Kindness
Jackie Kay
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Ten Poems About Cats
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Ten Poems About Cats
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Ten Poems About Dogs
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Ten Poems About Dogs
Jenni Murray
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Ten Poems About Babies
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Ten Poems About Babies
Imtiaz Dharker
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Ten Poems About Home
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Ten Poems About Home
Mahendra Solanki
£4.95
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Ten Poems About Gardens
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Ten Poems About Gardens
Monty Don
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Ten Poems About Birds
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Ten Poems About Birds
Katharine Towers
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Ten Poems About Clouds
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Ten Poems About Clouds
Katharine Towers
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Ten Poems on the Telephone
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Ten Poems on the Telephone
Sarah Jackson
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Ten Poems from Scotland
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Ten Poems from Scotland
Don Paterson
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Ten Poems from Wales
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Ten Poems from Wales
Gillian Clarke
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Ten Ten Poems from Ireland
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Ten Ten Poems from Ireland
Paula Meehan
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Ten Poems About Sheep
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Ten Poems About Sheep
Neil Astley
£4.95
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Ten Poems About Grandparents
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Ten Poems About Grandparents
Liz Soar
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Ten Poems for a Picnic
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Ten Poems for a Picnic
Jacqueline Gabbitas
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The Faber Series 

Collectable editions

William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
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John Keats
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John Keats
John Keats
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John Clare
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John Clare
John Clare
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Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
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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 Betjeman
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John Betjeman
John Betjeman
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
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W. B. Yeats
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W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
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W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
£10.00
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Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
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Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
£10.99
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Dart
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Dart
Alice Oswald
£10.99
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In Parenthesis
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In Parenthesis
David Jones
£10.00
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Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
£10.00
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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
Matthew Hollis
£10.00
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The War Poems
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The War Poems
Siegfried Sassoon
£10.00
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The Poetical Works
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The Poetical Works
Rupert Brooke
£10.00
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Selected Poems
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Selected Poems
Robert Graves
£10.00
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