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Our expert poetry reviewer is Liam Parkin. To find out more about his passion for poetry click here.

Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2012. In this wise and intimate telling - which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending - Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
     

The World's Favourite Love Poems
Suheil Bushrui
In this delightful volume of love poetry, renowned literature professor Suheil Bushrui presents nearly two hundred cherished works from around the world and down through the ages.
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/01/2013
     

IF A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility
Allie Esiri
Reviewed and selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin. Poetry for a younger audience is often ‘shunted in the realm of schoolwork’ as Allie Esri and Rachel Kelly notice, but this beautiful anthology reminds us of the resonance that particular...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
     

The Overhaul
Kathleen Jamie
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2012. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2012. The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the award-winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamie's lyric...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/10/2012
     

People Who Like Meatballs
Selima Hill
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2012. People Who Like Meatballs brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). The title-sequence, People Who Like Meatballs , is about a man's humiliation by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2012
     

The Best British Poetry 2012
Sasha Dugdale, Roddy Lumsden
An indispensible guide to the UK poetry scene, edited by poet Sasha Dugdale. This is a must-have for anyone interested in the art from newcomers to the art to the most experienced professional and all creative writing students in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/10/2012
     


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Feeling in need of some inspiration? Poetry can often reach those literary parts that other genres can't quite get to. Whether you are hoping to ruminate on life's complexity or are looking to have your funnybone ticked, we've got a selection of titles to appeal to all tastes...


As Carol Ann Duffy says in her introduction to The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems : ‘The best of poetry is memorable, as prayers are, and in this wonderful selection of classic poems both young and older readers will find something that will stay with them, or has stayed with them, all of their lives’.

 

The Crashaw Prize

crashaw prizeThe international prize for debut collections of poetry in English, Salt accepts submissions of poetry manuscripts from 1st July until 31st October each year. The shortlist will be announced the 1st February the following year. The winner will receive £1,000 and be published in the UK and sold internationally by Salt. Entrants must not have had a volume of poetry published before. Click here to find out more.


 
 
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England My England A Treasury of All Things English
Gerry Hanson
With contributions from Sir Thomas Beecham, Rupert Brooke, William Blake, Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, John Betjeman and many more, there is also a chapter entitled 'As Others See Us', which...
 
 
 


Yellow Tulips Poems, 1968-2011
James Fenton
Poems is an essential selection by, as Stephen Spender put it, 'a brilliant poet of technical virtuosity'. Don't talk to me of love. I've had an earful And I get...
 
 
 


Bee Journal
Sean Borodale
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2012. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2012. Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the...
 
 
 


The World's Two Smallest Humans
Julia Copus
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2012. These finely tuned poems are the fruit of her upbringing in a musical family, an affinity with the Classics, a fascination with the arc...
 
 
 

The Month Before's Featured Books


The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
The manuscript and printed sources have been scrutinized afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of the text and of dates of composition are provided; and, previous...
 
 
 


Jubilee Lines
Carol Ann Duffy
To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to...
 
 
 


Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected Poems is...
 
 
 


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