Poetry & Plays Books

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, cl...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, cl...

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

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...

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

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

Find Ten Poems about Friendship by Lorraine Mariner from publishers Candlestick Press at Books2Door! ; 15 pages; Published: 03/10/2016

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

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 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,...

A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Widely recognised ...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dr...

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 Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusiv...

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...

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 ...

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...

Find Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson from publishers Peepal Tree Press Ltd at Books2Door! ; 144 pages; Published: 08/07/2019

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the f...

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man...

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and ...

'It is really small. Whatever it is. But it's here. It's definitely here.'A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know w...

The Crump family is adrift. Widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselve...

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry UnboundThis inspiring collection, edited by Padraig O Tuama, pr...

Winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021. From the highly acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explore...

Black cats born at midnightAre different indeedA mischievous, oddAnd peculiar breedIn the middle of winter, three kittens are born in a barn. Two a...

** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ****A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWIC...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING POETRY COLLECTIONIn this fast-paced world, I Wish I Knew is a collection of poems to guide us through the wilderness o...

'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021*SHORTLISTED FOR TH...

**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration...