Our Poetry Bestsellers
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In Girling, her open-hearted debut collection, Eve Esfandiari-Denney wrestles with the boundaries between living and death, history and the present, and how these are preordained for us in the fabric of our DNA and in our geographical or…
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The definitive selection of John Burnside‘s extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades but always stirring, curious, alert to the natural world and the people in it.Over thirty-five years and seventeen collections,…
Recommended by Caleb
‘This has been my pocket companion ever since it was gifted to me. Each entry has that uncanny ability to describe exactly what you’re going through at that moment. It’s the ultimate self-help book for self-help haters and a perfect gift for the creative in your life – or anyone for that matter.’
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London Review Bookshop Author of the Month, July 2026Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more…
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‘I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.’It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. The poems were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, and…
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326pp, green endpapers. 281 new poems, in five numbered sections, amassing between them eleven epigraphs (from Samuel Beckett, Plenty Coups, John Gay, James Schuyler, and Christian Wolff, among other sources).Six blue section-marker leaves…
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Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prizeA Poetry Book Society recommendationElla Frears’s debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy.…
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The captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-WestIn 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, in…
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A three-part collection of songs recalled and misremembered; of singing or / as stilled life.
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