Plays & Poetry International

When a junior solicitor attends the funeral of the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, he catches sight of a wasted woman dressed in black. He feels uneasy, but his unease is deepened when the locals show their reluctance to talk to her. From the author of GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, I'M THE KING OF THE CASTLE and STRANGE MEETING.

The Collected Poems gathers together Tobias Hill's poems from his four full-length collections. Hill was selected as one of the country's Next Generation poets, shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and named by the TLS as one of the best young writers in the country.

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this dramatization of Barry Hines's novel, 15-year-old Billy trains a kestrel for whom he learns to feel great affection.

Adapted by Lawrence Till, this play brings to the stage Barry Hines' classic story of a supposedly backward boy, shunned by his family and contemporaries, who finds solace and hope training a kestrel.

America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency. His final collection Turn Up the Ocean examines with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives.

The bestselling collection of poetry so powerful that 100 great men have been moved to tears

The perfect companion volume to sit alongside the highest selling poetry book of 2014, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

In this long awaited second collection, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. What emerges is a moving meditation on time and the transformative phases of nature.

The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.