Poetry & Plays Books

Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating pa...

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Rough Trad...

'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delig...

Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as th...

Embark on an unforgettable literary adventure with Dante's Inferno, a masterpiece of world literature that takes you on an extraordinary journey th...

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Pengui...

Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern C...

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm...

Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American co...

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of...

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examinati...

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago. Leo...

The essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mysticThe founder of the order of the Whirling Dervish...

A raw, honest and heartfelt poetry collection from Taz Alam - for the tough times, the great times, and everything in between. ...

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and...

I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. ...

Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.'...

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In...

My dad said he jumped buses. Horseboxes. Jumped an aqueduct once. He was gonna jump Stonehenge but the council put a stop to it.' On St George's Da...

Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionali...

All About Cats is a collection of hilarious rhymes . . . all about cats! These short, funny rhymes are brought to life with illustrations from Axel...

The first in a fabulously funny series about a dragon who has lost his flame - but may just find fire elsewhere . . . Perfect for fans of The DInos...

From the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of...

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Hone...

Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divide...

Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and l...

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an int...

Powerful, compassionate and ultimately hopeful. ObserverWINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2021 and the Sunday Times Children's Book of the ...

Dante's Inferno: A Profound Journey into the Depths of Hell Delve into the timeless masterpiece, Dante's Inferno, and embark on an extraordinary vo...

We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other'A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a you...

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can...

The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imag...

An amazingly talented spoken word artist MTVFrom acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful first collection of poems exploring issu...

A beautiful paperback edition of Charles Causley's Collected Poems for Children with a foreword by Roger McGough and illustrated with line art by J...

*Winner of the 2019 CLiPPA award*An achingly beautiful collection of poems about one week in a secondary school where everything happens all at onc...

We're going on a lion hunt. We're going to catch a big one. We're not scared. In David Axtell's beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-kno...

A powerful poetry collection full of the drama, musicality and lyricism that Jackie Kay is famed for. Exploring the themes of identity and age, t...

Poems to make you smile! Critically acclaimed poet Roger McGough has drawn together a fantastic collection of upbeat poems to bring happiness into ...

Packed full of silly, funny, or downright hilarious poems (with some serious ones mixed in), this new collection by Joshua Seigal (winner of the La...

'Matt Goodfellow is a fresh voice on the children's poetry scene.' (Pie Corbett)What if cats had flavoured fur or if you swallowed the sun? What if...

This Dinosaur themed anthology of poems is written by various authors. The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of ...

From celebrated picture book creators Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky comes one possible answer to the age-old question: Who was Mother Goose?W...

A powerful and necessary picture book - the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagin...

A beautiful collection featuring all of Kit Wright's finest poems. It includes poems from his bestselling and universally loved collections, Hot Do...

The playscript for the Old Vic production of A Monster Calls, based on the bestselling novel by Patrick Ness. In this powerful new adaptation fro...

A classic collection of festive poems, stories and activities by Kate Greenaway-winning author, Shirley Hughes. This beautiful Christmas anthology ...

'Will you walk into my parlour,' said the Spider to the Fly... is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse....

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