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National Poetry Day 2023: Refuge

Celebrated annually on the first Thursday of October, National Poetry Day encourages absolutely everyone to enjoy and share poetry and discover its unique power to bring people together. This year’s theme is refuge, and below you’ll find a beautiful selection of our new and bestselling poetry books to cater for varied tastes in verse.

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Our Bestselling Poetry

The Orange and other poems
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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Inferno
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Paperback
£7.99
Milk and Honey
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Paperback
£12.99
Ariel
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Hardback
£12.99
Book of Longing
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Blue Horses
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£10.99
The Sun and Her Flowers
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Blossomise
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Hardback
£10.00
Pillow Thoughts
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I Wish I Knew
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Let the Light Pour In
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May Day
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Paperback
£10.99
WHAT
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£16.99
100 Queer Poems
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Adam
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£12.99
poyums
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Hardback
£14.99

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Poetic inspiration for every occasion from Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, as he presents a volume of invaluable tips and pointers for crafting memorable verse.
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National Poetry Day - A Selection of Children's Poetry Books

The Final Year
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The Lost Spells
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The Lost Words
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People Need People
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A Whale of a Time
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What You Need to Be Warm
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Blow a Kiss, Catch a Kiss
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Courage Out Loud Volume 3
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Poetry Prompts
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Who Let the Words Out?
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Yapping Away
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£7.99
My Heart is a Poem
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Welcome to Wild Town
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Out There in the Wild
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Luminous and moving, Neil Gaiman's poem that explores displacement, loss of home and what we need to feel warm, written in aid of the UN Refugee Agency's appeal, is now available in a beautiful hardback edition boasting illustrations by a group of artists from around the world.
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National Poetry Day - A Selection of Adult Poetry Books

The Iliad
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£30.00
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever
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Hansel & Gretel
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The Owl and the Nightingale
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And So This is Christmas
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365 Poems for Life
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Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright
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Collected Poems
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Hardback
£20.00
Every Night is Full of Stars
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The Translations of Seamus Heaney
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New Weather
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Paperback
£12.99
Lupercal
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Hardback
£14.99
The Forward Book of Poetry 2024
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Jim Harrison: Early Poems
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Second World War Poems
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Harmony
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Filled with resilience and defiant joy, this luminous collection from the poet, playwright, comedian and acclaimed author of The Fire People and My Name Is Why brings together a decade’s worth of gems born out of the author’s daily poetry practice.
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