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James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. There are poems by men about women, women about men, men about men and women about women - in short, something for everyone, and a must-have for everyone's bookshelf.

The judges of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry - comprising the poets Alycia Pirmohamed, Vanessa Kisuule, Daniel Sluman and Jane Clarke, and chaired by actor and comedian Craig Charles - read hundreds of recent books and individual poems before arriving at this anthology.

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. Victoria Adukwei BulleyRachael AllenSimon ArmitageGeorge BarkerEmily BerryLaurence BinyonRupert BrookeRobert BrowningThomas CampionMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeWendy CopeThomas DekkerJohn DonneT.S.EliotLavinia GreenlawDavid HarsentSeamus HeaneyA.E. HousmanTed HughesIshion HutchinsonJohn KeatsZaffar KunialNick LairdPhilip LarkinD.H. LawrenceCharlotte MewPaul MuldoonDaljit NagraRowan Ricardo PhillipsSylvia PlathKathleen RaineMaurice RiordanDeclan RyanWilliam ShakespeareStevie SmithWislawa SzymborskaJack UnderwoodDerek WalcottW.B. Yeats

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. Victoria Adukwei BulleyRachael AllenSimon ArmitageGeorge BarkerEmily BerryLaurence BinyonRupert BrookeRobert BrowningThomas CampionMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeWendy CopeThomas DekkerJohn DonneT.S.EliotLavinia GreenlawDavid HarsentSeamus HeaneyA.E. HousmanTed HughesIshion HutchinsonJohn KeatsZaffar KunialNick LairdPhilip LarkinD.H. LawrenceCharlotte MewPaul MuldoonDaljit NagraRowan Ricardo PhillipsSylvia PlathKathleen RaineMaurice RiordanDeclan RyanWilliam ShakespeareStevie SmithWislawa SzymborskaJack UnderwoodDerek WalcottW.B. Yeats

The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers a vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.

This Liberty Faber Poetry Journal contains eight classic poems and over a hundred lined pages for the owner to fill as they wish. To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)April from Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.

Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh powerful language, feeling and thought. It includes poems by Raymond Antrobus, Simon Armitage, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Vahni Capildeo, Alice Oswald and Claudia Rankine.

A beautiful collection of poetry, from some of the freshest and best Poets on IG. A collection featuring every emotion and feeling, written in so many wondrous ways.

Short sharp shots of poetry to help you face the sh*t.

A collective of artists, poets, poet-artists, like and unlike, who seek to include and expand their worlds with the world surrounding, to keep one another vibrating in radiant transformation, to be one as loon, to be grasped by the soft of the neck, eyes locked and brows declaring, "Courage... courage for our friends" in wake of the world going gone.

The seventh volume in this series anthologises the best entries for the 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. The anthology is a truly democratic as well as creative effort, in keeping with the spirit of the legendary intellectual giant, Sol Plaatje; activist, linguist, translator, novelist, journalist and leader.

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'. As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons, and it is here that we find poems about harvest and hardship, growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and the closing of the year. Poetry Please: Seasonal Poems is a vital and generous gathering to treasure.

The Forward Book of Poetry 2018 showcases a selection of the best contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of 2017's prestigious Forward Prizes for Poetry.

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: it is those poems that this anthology brings together here. A showcase, in effect, for the nation's favourite verse, Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time. It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about: from new readers to old, from schools to reading groups, this a book for giving, a book for cherishing.

'What will survive of us is love.'In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life, whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart. A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.