books by subject
Poetry Genres

Telling Tales

Being Human

Collected Poems in English and French

The Virgin Mary's Got Nits: A Christmas Anthology

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

The Metaphysical Poets

Essential poems from the Staying Alive trilogy

I Just Stepped Out

Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber: Allen Ginsberg (Penguin Modern)

Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain

Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds

Poems for a world gone to sh*t: the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better

Catch-22

52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

Jane Eyre

You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

Penguin's Poems for Life

How Freakin' Zeitgeist Are You?

The Corrections

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë (The Penguin English Library)

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Shelley: The Pursuit

Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers

I Love You

The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford Paperbacks)

Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery (Phoenix Books)
