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Telling Tales

By Patience Agbabi

Being Human

By Neil Astley

Collected Poems in English and French

By Samuel Beckett

The Virgin Mary's Got Nits: A Christmas Anthology

By Gervase Phinn

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

By Neil Astley, Neil Astley

The Metaphysical Poets

By Gerald Hammond

Essential poems from the Staying Alive trilogy

By Neil Astley, Neil Astley

I Just Stepped Out

By Felix Dennis

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

By Ginsberg, Allen

Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain

By E. A. Markham

Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds

By Neil Astley, Pamela Robertson-Pearce

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

By Various Poets, Quercus Poetry

Catch-22

By Joseph Heller, Joseph Heller

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

By Ruth Padel

Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Brontë, Stevie Davies

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

By Bilston, Brian

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

By Mary Oliver

Penguin's Poems for Life

By Barber, Laura

How Freakin' Zeitgeist Are You?

By Murray Lachlan Young

The Corrections

By Franzen, Jonathan

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë (The Penguin English Library)

By Bronte, Charlotte

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

By Waugh, Evelyn, Evelyn Waugh

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

By Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

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

By Joseph Heller, Howard Jacobson

I Love You

By Edward Monkton

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

By Sieghart, WILLIAM

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

By Grierson, Herbert J. C.

Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery (Phoenix Books)

By Tuve, Rosemond

Brodie's Notes on Metaphysical Poets (Pan study aids)

By Handley, Graham