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A luminous tour through the poems of one of nature’s most brilliant and devoted observersI don't know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,which is what I...

Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment - for fun, for romance, for religion and for entertainment - and this is a book about those people.Wh...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.When this vo...

This pamphlet is gorgeous both inside and out and can be sent as a substitue for a greeting card, or as a lovely little poetry book in its own right. Cover designers are created by leading contemporary artists and poems hand-picked to speak to every kind of reader.Pamphlets are supplied with an enve...

This pamphlet is gorgeous both inside and out and can be sent as a substitue for a greeting card, or as a lovely little poetry book in its own right. Cover designers are created by leading contemporary artists and poems hand-picked to speak to every kind of reader.Pamphlets are supplied with an enve...

a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in when the goalposts are constantly changing. They ask: how can we nail the perfect routine? How can we be a people person in the world? What parts of ourselves must we leave behind?...

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers.Because it defines human existence, love is one of art's favorite subjects. : Poems, Stories, and Letters cel...

The wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play.Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience...

In The Midnight Plane, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished writers, to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman's six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present d...

In , Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Māori.Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself.In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they...

It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill.In he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing red and see possibi...

My Heart’s In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious celebration of poetry and verse by the greatest classic Scottish poets, and introduced by the acclaimed poet John Glenday.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold...

This enchanting collection of more than 80 poems captures the essence of the natural world, as seen through the eyes of Scotland's beloved bard.Each chapter explores a different aspect of nature - from wild, mossy mountains and glens to murmuring streams, the sorrowful song of the woodlark, and the...

This second edition of our much-loved mini-anthology of bicycle poems is a real treat. Invigorated by some delightful new poems, the selection takes us along the highways and byways of cycling lore, from a freewheeling nun relishing the exhilaration of being on a bike on a hot summer’s day to the...

Newly discovered, an intimate collection of poems that shine a light on Iris Murdoch’s own life and lovesA definitive collection of poems by the major twentieth-century novelist and philosopher, newly discovered in the attic of Murdoch's former home.While she is pre-eminent as one of the twentieth...

Bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs with a new collection of beautifully observed poems about the ever-evolving journey of motherhood – the hard, the magic and the fleeting.A mother is born the moment her children are, growing and blooming alongside them. is a testament to t...

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club.'No matter where one starts reading, offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional colle...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Shakespeare's immortal poems with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is...