Poetry & Plays Books

Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah!A reissue of the wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for young people, touching on any...

From Agard to Zephaniah, the very best of children's poetry from the very best of children's poets appears in this wonderful and exciting anthology...

POETRY PIE is a brilliant collection of poems for children by Roger McGough.There are over 50 poems in this hugely enjoyable poetry collection with...

Daphne is unbearably sad and adrift. She feels the painful loss of her father acutely and seeks solace both in the security of her local library an...

The Play Guide provides structured support for the three Sections that are all part of Component 1: Understanding Drama in the AQA GCSE Drama speci...

Perfect for schools - both for class reading as well as performance. A short black and white illustrated play set in World War Two written by Julia...

This is a mongrel mix of prose, poem, cartoon strip, letter, and limerick. Musings upon his mum, his chum, his love, his love's loss, and salvation...

Find Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition) by F Scott Fitzgerald from publishers Wisehouse Classics at Books2Door! ; 124 pages; Published: 01...

Find Shine, Star, Shine! by Dom Conlon from publishers Graffeg Limited at Books2Door! ; 36 pages; Published: 16/11/2021

Find Swim, Shark, Swim! by Dom Conlon from publishers Graffeg Limited at Books2Door! ; 36 pages; Published: 23/02/2021

Bargain Bin Rom-Com is the first collection of poems by Leena Norms. From the politics of ice-cream to the permission slip you didn't know you need...

Find Christmas Movies by Various Authors from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 36 pages; Published: 01/10/2021

A Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week My woodland's full of animals,of every different kind. So shall we stay here for a whileand see what w...

I travelled once around the worldOn stars with flaming tails,And touched the colours of my dreamsAlong some silver trails. Look out for best frie...

Gazing at the stars from five storeys up,smelling the bins from five storeys below. Overheard arguments,overheard laughter. A disappearing father...

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture...

Find Christmas Presents: Ten Poems to Give and Receive by Various Authors from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published:...

Find Ten Poems about Flowers by Katharine Towers from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 06/02/2020

Find Ten Poems about Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 24 pages; Published: 27/05/2019

Find Ten Poems about Mothers by Various Authors from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 24 pages; Published: 08/10/2019

Find Ten Poems about Love by Lorraine Mariner from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 24/06/2019

Find Ten Poems about Trees by Katharine Towers from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 01/03/2019

Find Ten Poems about Art by Geoff Dyer from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 24 pages; Published: 12/08/2019

Find Ten Poems of Happiness by Deborah Alma from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 08/07/2019

Find Ten Poems about Bicycles by Di Slaney from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 13/03/2018

Find Ten Poems about Walking by Sasha Dugdale from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 01/01/2019

Find Ten Poems About Birds by Katharine Towers from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 24/07/2017

Find Ten Poems about Sisters by Katharine Towers from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 20 pages; Published: 25/10/2017

Find Ten Poems about Knitting by Candlestick Press from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 16 pages; Published: 07/01/2015

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living ...

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has al...

An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism...

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. In 18t...

A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre. His Dark Materials ...

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine,...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary play about a woman's awakening to her need for a life ...

Find Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers from publishers Poetry Wales Press at Books2Door! ; 52 pages; Published: 17/10/2005

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctiv...

With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1...

This title includes all of Burns' poems and songs, with a helpful glossary explaining difficult words, a chronology of Burns's life and a bibliogra...

Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. It is forbidden. Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and Crosses...

'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.'County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with pre...

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love a...

A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family - and a marriage - through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves be...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection 'At last the night surrounded me; / I floated on it, perhaps in it, / or it carried me ...

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a moun...

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ... Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From the autho...