Collections & Anthologies

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....

These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....

In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....

Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved....

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....

In a series of fascinating conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language...

The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth....

This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech....

In World War I, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets put down their thoughts in poetry telling us much about wars and the people who fight them....

Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....

Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....

Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Fast jeder wird diese Zeile vervollständigen können. Aber erst wenn Gert Westphal solche...

If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....

John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life….

Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....

A titillating assortment of works on the transforming the power of sex and desire. On Starry Thighs is a collection of love poetry, lust prose, devotional prayers, and intimate blessings....

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....

Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Rupi Kaur aborda en "Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí" algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores...

Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...

For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....

101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language....

In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about love....