Poetry

The perfect, witty gift for Valentine's and beyond. Alexa, what is there to know about love? is a wonderful collection of poems by Brian Bilston, Twitter's 'unofficial poet laureate', in which he frets over the challenges of modern life, extols the pleasures of books, broods over politics, and ponders the curiosities of language.

A revised hardcover edition of the Number One Sunday Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the Number One Sunday Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers.

The poems in Naming of the Bones touch on Christian values and work towards a significant faith, at the same time focusing on the wonders of an evolving cosmos. The poems delight in the things of the earth, suggesting a secular Christianity. They hope justice will overcome human greed and violence, while they assent to the seasons developing of our landscapes and the beauty and dangers of our place in creation.

It tells the story of how Orbis Rex, Young Matt and his Circle of Friends, Queen Dido and the blind Dom'nic did battle with 'a wet and withered bat' from Wuhan.

Martin Hayes' third Smokestack collection is a hymn to the invisible workers everywhere who hold up the sky - specifically the couriers and support staff who have been working 15-hours a day to distribute PPE and test kits up and down the UK. 

These boisterous and musical poems explore the universal experience of what it is to be taught, to learn and to teach.

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2021. Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form.

From grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated.

In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown's Orkney, the poet's lifelong home and inspiration.