Dylan Thomas once wrote that "a good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it."
We'll let you be the judge of that - and to aid Dylan's claim, here's an assortment of the best that poetry can offer. We've got classics like June Jordan, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Audre Lorde. And those at the cutting edge of contemporary poetry, such as Yomi Sode, Warsan Shire, Denise Riley and many more.
Three Wise Men
Carol Ann Duffy
Signed bookplate
Paper Boat
Margaret Atwood
Signed first edition
The Keelie Hawk
Kathleen Jamie
May Day
Jackie Kay
Signed first edition
Real Boys
Thomas Stewart
Not Waving but Drowning and other poems
Stevie Smith
Bluff
Danez Smith
The Wickedest
Caleb Femi
Signed first edition
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
Pilgrim Bell
Kaveh Akbar
Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith
Unexpected Vanilla
Hyemi Lee
The Ink Cloud Reader
Kit Fan
So To Speak
Terrance Hayes
Signed first edition
Quiet
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Notes on the Sonnets
Luke Kennard
Signed by the author
"Luke Kennard’s “anarchic” response to Shakespeare’s Sonnets takes place at an awkward house party. Through a fun ride of timely humour, wit, intellect and sensitivity, the …
When the Flies Come
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Signed by the author
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
A Year in the New Life
Jack Underwood
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan
The Home Child
Liz Berry
Zong!
M. NourbeSe Philip
Self-Portrait as Othello
Jason Allen-Paisant
Manorism
Yomi Sode
The Ink Dark Moon
Izumi Shikibu and Ono no Komachi
Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri
Signed first edition
with your chest
The Islands of Chile
When the Flies Come
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Signed by the author
Hansel & Gretel
Simon Armitage
Signed first edition
WHAT
John Cooper Clarke
Signed first edition
365 Poems for Life
Allie Esiri
Signed first edition
Selected Poems
John Glenday
Signed first edition
So To Speak
Terrance Hayes
Signed first edition
Healing Through Words
Rupi Kaur
Signed bookplate
Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri
Signed first edition
Manorism
Yomi Sode
Signed by the author
