John Kenney 
Love Poems for Anxious People 

When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glass Grounded in the local and immediate from Toronto s rivers and ravines to its …

Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and in the words of those who loved and loathed him. The book …

Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built …

This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation”s all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll”s curious ”Jabberwocky” to lesser known and forgotten gems …

Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated t …

‘Where does all the grief go when it”s not tugging at your wrist?’ Enyegue”s debut collection is an ode to girlhood, to Blackness, to generational trauma, sexual assault, and mental health. Thi …

Perhaps the most astonishing set of personal poems ever written, Shakespeare”s Sonnets have both delighted and puzzled readers down the ages. Two Loves I Have is a reading of the sequence that …

The long poem at the centre of John Hartley Williams” new collection is a dramatic monologue narrated by a laconic, possibly lamed, forest dweller, a lowly crewmember on a barge travelling an …