Collections & Anthologies

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....

Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Invictus". Politicians and authors love to quote the inspirational last two lines of this poem....

44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves.

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

Here to Stay is a collection of honest, searing, and evocative poems interspersed with short personal narratives. Deeply intimate, these works explore how to exist in the space between the familiar and the unknown, between the safety of silence and the desire to share.

Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark....

Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times best seller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything in between....

Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....

Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....

Voces vibrantes en la celebración de la palabra y el deseo. Lo queer supone una respuesta amplia a los roles de género tradicionales del universo...

This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity....

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.

The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth....

In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....

"101 Great American Poems" is a thoughtfully curated anthology that brings together a diverse collection of classic American poetry.

Sir Jonathan Bate examines eight iconic poems inspired by great historical events - and explores the Romantics, John Clare and William Wordsworth....

The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast with its Occidental counterpart...

Ada Limon challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets.

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them....

This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....

An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....