Poetry, Drama & Criticism

An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays [9780141185354]

An Inspector Calls , first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful reviva…

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Blood Brothers [9780413767707]

This edition includes an introduction by the author A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot a…

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A Streetcar Named Desire [9780141190273]

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister …

The Sun and Her Flowers [9781471165825]

From Rupi Kaur, the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Ka…

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What a Time to be Alone: The Slumflower's guide to why you are already enough [9781787132115]

In What A Time To Be Alone, The Slumflower will be your life guru, confidante and best friend. She'll show you that being alone is not just okay: it's…

The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-And-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul [9781846149542]

As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensary When we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and wh…

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Dancing By The Light of The Moon [9780241397923]

A collection of over 250 of our nation's best-loved poems to read, relish and recite, handpicked by Gyles Brandreth. A little poetry really can save …

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The Flame [9781786893130]

THESE POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS ARE THE LAST WORD FROM THE LATE, GREAT LEONARD COHEN The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and wr…

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Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry [9780241347935]

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic vocalist of Florence + the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconsci…

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Adultolescence [9781471169458]

From Teen Choice Award-nominated comedian and vlogger Gabbie Hanna, known on YouTube as The Gabbie Show, an astounding debut poetry collection that ca…

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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope [9780241419052]

The Poetry Pharmacy is one of the best-selling (and most giftable) poetry anthologies of recent decades. Now, after huge demand for more prescriptions…

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The Last Hedgehog [9781509881260]

'A national treasure' Daily Express To mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from `t…

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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and A Requiem [9780141182742]

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination …

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: With Pearl and Sir Orfeo [9780008393625]

This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy…

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England: Poems from a School [9781509886609]

'Not just good for school children, but great by any standard' - Phillip Pullman Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 langua…

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100 Poems [9780571347155]

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to ser…

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Feminine Gospels [9781509852918]

Carol Ann Duffy's powerful sixth collection In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantas…

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Up in the Attic [9781529104936]

The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres. With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four…

We British: The Poetry of a People [9780008130923]

'This book includes some of the greatest of our poetry. I hope that it adds up to a new way of thinking about who we have been, and who we are now.' W…

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Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry [9780571325405]

Agbabi, Armitage, Burnside, Duffy, Dunmore, Fanthorpe, Heaney, Motion, Nagra, O'Brien and more Poems of the Decade brings together more than one hundr…