Pocket Poets

In addition to well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy.

Poems on Nature Introduced by Helen Macdonald

Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature – a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written.

Poems for Travellers Introduced by Paul Theroux

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.

Keats by John Keats

“I find that I cannot exist without poetry.”

Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova

One of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets who kept alive ‘the great Russian word’ in the darkness of Stalinism.

Donne by John Donne

Representing the breadth of Donne’s work: love, devotion, satire, genius.

Whitman by Walt Whitman

The poet of grand passions, great open spaces, lofty mourning and male love.

Hip Hops Edited by Christoph Keller

Whether pulling up at the celestial bar in Keats’s ‘Mermaid Tavern’ or at the grittier, jazzier one in Carl Sandburg’s ‘Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio’, lovers of beer and poetry are sure to find something to celebrate in these pages.

Zen Poems Edited by Peter Harris

Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality and beauty everywhere.

The Great Cat Edited by Emily Fragos

Poets across the continents and the centuries describe felines doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves.

Poems Dead and Undead Edited by Tony Barnstone & Michelle Mitchell-Foust

This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils.

Picturehouse Poems Edited by Harold Schechter & Michael Waters

In Picturehouse Poems, one of our oldest art forms pays loving homage to one of our newest-the thrilling art of cinema.