Plays & Poetry

Words of comfort to bring solace to the darkest days of grief, from the no.1 Sunday Times bestseller of To the Women and Wild Hope.

I WISH I KNEW is a book that will bring comfort, confidence, sisterhood and acceptance into the hearts of young women, and is also relevant for young men.

The powerful new collection from the Sunday Times number 1 bestselling author of Wild Hope

Inspiring words from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Wish I Knew about the power of hope to dispel dark days.

The poems in Claire Askew's electrifying second collection concern witches, outsiders, and women who don't fit into society. The settings range from London buses and Edinburgh alleyways to the streets of Salem, Massachusetts. Also a novelist, Askew is known for her award-winning DI Birch Scottish crime series published by Hodder.

Staying Human is the latest addition to Bloodaxe's Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies which have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. This fourth volume in the series offers poetry lovers an even broader, international selection, with a strong focus on 21st-century poems addressing current issues.

Soul Feast is a companion anthology to Soul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. This is a book to keep by the bedside or to keep with you when travelling.

How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes her sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of speech and found text from a hospital residency to pay homage to the inventiveness and humour of patients and staff in meditations on the notion that pain resists language.

The stunning new collection of poetry from Atticus, the no.1 Instagram poet

The stunning follow-up to LVOE by New York Times bestselling author, Atticus.