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.
With My Back to the World
Victoria Chang
Pick Up Your Feelings
amuk
Khairani Barokka
Signed by the author
Baby Schema
Isabel Galleymore
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse
No author
After You Were, I Am
Camille Ralphs
I cannot be good until you say it
Sanah Ahsan
The Asking
Jane Hirshfield
God Complex
Rachael Allen
Signed first edition
Signed by the author
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Nam Le
Poems: 1968-2020
Nikki Giovanni
Three Births
K Patrick
Again I Hear These Waters
Multiple Authors
Lobster
Hollie McNish
Signed first edition
Egg/Shell
Victoria Kennefick
The Miraculous Season
V.R. 'Bunny' Lang
Signed by the editor
WHAT
John Cooper Clarke
Signed first edition
Wrong Norma
Anne Carson
Food for the Dead
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
poyums
Len Pennie
Signed first edition
Collected Poems
Fleur Adcock
Girls that Never Die
Safia Elhillo
Content Warning
Akwaeke Emezi
Rapture's Road
Seán Hewitt
Eleanor Among the Saints
Rachel Mann
Inheritance: A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
School of Instructions
Ishion Hutchinson
I Think We’re Alone Now
Abigail Parry
The Orange and other poems
Wendy Cope
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous
Megan Fox
Collected Poems
Laurie Lee
Sturge Town
The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
Nicole Sealey
The Iliad
o f f e r i n g s
Let the Light Pour In
Lemn Sissay
Cowboy
Kandace Siobhan Walker
For the Unnamed
Fred D'Aguiar
Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes
Signed first edition
When the Flies Come
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Signed by the author
Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri
Signed first edition
Nomenclature
Dionne Brand
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
Signed first edition
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
Days Like These
Brian Bilston
Signed by the author
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
The Arctic
Don Paterson
Signed first edition
Manorism
Yomi Sode
Signed by the author
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
Signed first edition
