Yellow Tulips

Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn ...

Yellow Tulips is a gathering from four decades of work by a writer described by the Observer as 'the most talented poet of his generation'.

Winner of both the Queen ...

In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' - a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are ...

In 1938 Louis MacNeice published his second collection of poems with Faber; his 'personal essay' Modern Poetry for OUP; and Zoo, a prose commission from Michael Joseph to write an ...

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft ...

A professional man of letters - critic, editor, biographer - though never a professional poet, Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) referred to his poems as ‘miraculous lyrical arrivals’, and he bided their time with ...

Auden's electrifying, enigmatic debut collection, entitled Poems, was published by Faber in 1930. For the second edition (1933) Auden replaced seven of the poems with new poems. The present ...

In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with newly-written notes and aphorisms. In 1956 ...

Frederick Seidel - the 'ghoul' (Chicago Review), the 'triumphant outsider' (Contemporary Poetry Review) - returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and political themes that have ...

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is ...

To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset ...

For the first time, Faber publishes a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin, drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.

'Many ...

The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain ...

Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she ...

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences from 1914 ...

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences from 1914 ...

A brilliantly original new poem which is also a translation of Homer’s Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist.

Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its ‘nobility ...

The poems of Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection are concerned with space, with thresholds and displacements. The book begins with the nothing - or something - of outer space, and homes in ...

A collection of the best poems of the year from the Forward Poetry Prizes, with a foreword by Leonie Rushforth.

Every year the Forward Poetry Prizes bring both established writers ...

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house'. It explores the ‘hidden continuous’ in language, life and ...