Poetry Book Society

Memorial

Alice Oswald

A glitteringly original new poem which is also a version of Homer's Iliad, from prize-winning poet Alice Oswald.

Black Cat Bone

John Burnside

Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the...

The Bees

'Wonderful... Duffy is a poet alert to every sound and shape of language. Whether writing sonnets, eclogues, elegies or love songs, she is attuned to the hum of nature, angered by what ...

Profit and Loss

Leontia Flynn

Examines and dismantles a fugitive life. Using the idea of the haunted house or the house with a sealed-off room, and Gothic tropes of madness, doubles, revenants and religious brooding...

Night

David Harsent

A work in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and...

Armour

John Kinsella

John Kinsella is the author of over twenty books, and is editor of the international literary journal Salt. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. In 2007 he receive...

Grace

Esther Morgan

'Poems of outstanding beauty and a decidedly celebratory wisdom that takes nothing for granted. This is poetry of the first order by a poet who really knows how to sing.' --- John Burns...

Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-man Eating Tiger-toy Machine!!!

Daljit Nagra

Takes cue from the eighteenth-century automaton (a tiger savaging a British soldier) in a series of poems that begin at the throat of the old British Empire. This title creates own inim...

November

Sean O'brien

A brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet

Farmers Cross

Bernard O'donoghue

Brings together meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the way. This book features the poems that frequently recall the south...