Poetry & Plays Books

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 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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures o...

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 ...

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