In New York City's Washington Square Park,An old familiar war is being waged between those in power,and those who refuse to conform.Blue Jay Walker has been a street busker all his life. Traveling across countries he earns his keep by writing poems for passers-by on his worn typewriter.In the summer of 2023 when he arrived at one of his favourite haunts for hawking poems, he was dismayed to discover the auth...

In New York City's Washington Square Park,An old familiar war is being waged between those in power,and those who refuse to conform.Blue Jay Walker has been a street busker all his life. Traveling across countries he earns his keep by writing poems for passers-by on his worn typewriter.In the summer of 2023 when he arrived at one of his favourite haunts for hawking poems, he was dismayed to discover the auth...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and wo...

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and...

The first volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing Clockwork Phoenix anthology series, at last available in digital format from Mythic Delirium Books."Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird." — Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories by Catherynne M. Valente, David Sandner, John Grant, Cat Rambo, Leah Bobet, M...

Selected Poems 2 is an essential collection from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Margaret Atwood, tracing her work from 1976-1986.Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Margaret Atwood is also one of our most significant contemporary poets.Selected Poems 2 presents her work in the decade following 1976—important years of change and new themes in her poetry. It includes selections from Two-Headed Poem...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of exquisite poems by "a poet of mad wit and stunning anecdote. Tate is now in the fullness of his powers" (Julian Moynahan, author of Sisters and Brothers).Selected Poems, James Tate's award-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1...

Gathered from Margaret Atwood’s work over the decade of 1965–1975, Selected Poems 1 is a lasting collection from one of our most celebrated contemporary writers.Margaret Atwood’s early poetry garnered widespread critical recognition and helped establish her reputation as one of the most provocative modern literary talents. Selected Poems 1 draws from six volumes published early in Atwood’s career: The Circle Game (1966), which received th...

A vibrant collection from one of America's most talented award-winning poets and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.Rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity as Christian Wiman's Every Riven Thing. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions of a social order coming apart, or fluent, defiant outpourings of praise, Wiman pushes his language and forms until they break open, revealing startl...

***A Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times Book of the Year 2024*An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age**Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood – a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes – Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful and hyper-imagined, Atwood...

Discover the timeless precision and fierce wit of A. E. Stallings's poetry in this stunning selection from her four acclaimed collections.This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together the best of A. E. Stallings's work from Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, along with a lagniappe of additional poems. Themes and characters recur throughout, engaging in a complex interplay of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint across years and experiences. The Unde...

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams