101 Sonnets
Don Paterson (ed)
Faber, PB, 9780571278732
Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both a sharing ... More/Buy
The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snookie, Trent Lott, Kanye West & Other Well-versed Celebrities
Kathryn & Ross Petras
Workman Press, PB, 9780761167822
Poetry has long been regarded as an effete interest of the hyper-literate cultural elite-but literary scholars Ross and Kathryn Petras are here to turn that notion on its head. They have found that-just as ancient Greek poets declaimed in the agora-today's greatest poetic talents are right under our noses: in the news, in the papers, on Twitter and Facebook. The Anthology ... More/Buy
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember
Ted Hughes (ed)
Faber, PB, 9780571278749
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected ... More/Buy
The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems
Wendy Cope (ed)
Faber, PB, 9780571288151
This anthology of 101 humorous poems includes work by Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, Gavin Ewart, Kit Wright and Sophie ... More/Buy
The Jaguar's Dream
John Kinsella
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781846881879
In this volume of 'cover' poems, John Kinsella takes the work of poets from across the centuries writing in languages other than English, including French, Russian, German, Greek, Latin and Chinese, and recreates the original works as translations, adaptations and versions. In the case of nineteenth-century French poets, including Leconte de Lisle, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Cros, there is close ... More/Buy
Ladylike
Kate Lilley
UWAP, PB, 9781742584393
Ladylike is Kate Lilley's second volume of poetry, much awaited after her 2002 debut Versary (Salt Publishing). She mines the areas of her scholarly specialisation - the early modern period - as well as contemporary popular culture and matches it with some of the twentieth century's enduring interests such as psychoanalysis and the figure of Sigmund Freud. At all times Kate ... More/Buy
Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems
Simon Armitage (ed)
Faber, PB, 9780571278725
Some of the finest poems are short. Whether it's Edward Lear's limericks or the fragments of Sappho, brevity is very often the soul of a poet's wit: what would be obvious and mundane expressed in lengthy prose, or prolix doggerel, becomes amusing or moving when forcibly compressed into five or seven - or three or two - lines of poetry. No stranger ... More/Buy
Sounds Good: 101 Poems to be Heard
Christopher Reid (ed)
Faber, PB, 9780571288168
Sounds Good offers a collection of 101 poems that have been chosen to illustrate the function of sound in poetry. It follows the publication of Ted Hughes's anthology By Heart, and was conceived as a companion to it. Whereas By Heart shows how important imagery is to the memorability of a poem, Sounds Good reveals how sound is organised within the ... More/Buy