All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman'sand Leaves of GrassIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many...

All of us know Vishal Bhardwaj as a film-maker whose films have consistently pushed the envelope and as a composer who has churned out some of the biggest chart-toppers in recent years. Here's presenting him in a new avatar: a poet. Over the course...

Allie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology,and A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world's greatest ever verse writers.Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites...

An anthology of poems by Kishwar Naheed on occasion of her 80th birthday. This is bilingual edition in English and Urdu language.

An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.A Penguin ClassicThe Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets,...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,' writes...

An authentic exploration of the real Rumi As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers...

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom....

An award-winning writer shares in lavish poetic detail her passion for the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, in a collection that evinces such imagery as the fall of an injured goldfinch and the retreat of deer at dusk, and...

An eloquent conversation between businessman Amin Hashwani and rock star Salman Ahmed covered a variety of topics as the former's poetry book Untouched Octaves' was launched at a hotel on Saturday.Hashwani, also a social activist, told the audience that he had never thought of...

An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats....

An exceptional selection of erotic poetry from ancient India, The Cane Groves of Narmada River features poems composed from the second century CE to the sixteenth century. Starting with several poems from the Prakrit anthology attributed to King Hala, the Sattasai, the book then...

Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels includingand Pride and Prejudice,and Emmaand andand Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet:'I am going to have my dinner, after...

Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, theirand diwansand (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.Spanning more than five thousand years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods,and Classical Poems by Arab Womenand presents rarely seen work...

Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be...

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story...

As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets' Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William Rodney, a budding writer with an exaggerated opinion of his own poetical talent....

As the phoenix emerges from its ashes, Zebian emerges ablaze in these pages, not only as a survivor of abuse, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understand, reclaim, and rise above a history of pain. The book...

As you have picked up my tome, I advise, find a mute spot, where my muse, May fill your vacant brain with surprise,I promise, it 's a lot of sordid fun and abuseBone thought it interesting, Moseley found it funny,Trust me, it bears wit,...

Atmospheric and intoxicating'and CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE'Hypnotic and freewheeling'and GUARDIANCaleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry collection,and The Wickedest.This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as 'The Wickedest'. Here, we...

Baam E Falak by and Syeda Huma Tahir

Baaten Hamari Yaad Rahen

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world...

BBC Radio 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKFORWARD PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019The long-awaited new collection from Ilya Kaminsky: a remarkable parable in poems which asks us, what is silence?Deaf Republicand opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It...

Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Loveand is a two-book collection from bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake that explores the duality of the heart to cling to darkness while fighting to feel the light.A unique duet between two powerhouse poets,and Beautiful...

Between Quarantine and Quest - A Bilingual Anthology of Art, Poetry and Writings is an English andamp; Urdu anthology produced in response to the Pandemic of 2020, featuring Pakistani and international visual artists, photographers, designers, illustrators, poets and writers.

Beydaari - and and (The Dreamer Awakes)

Books make good pets and don't need going to the vet.You don't have to keep them on a lead or throw them a stick.They'll wag their words whenever you flick their dog-eared pages.Even howl an ancient tale for the inward-listening ear.Did you know that...

Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power...and Avernoand may be Glück's masterpiece'and The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by...

Bumbling flying elephants, the demon serpent, a brash peacock, crafty jackals, a curious leopard, and even an evil, shape-shifting jinn, all make an appearance in this delightful collection of tales from India.Beautifully illustrated and imaginatively retold, Birds and Beasts, takes the reader on a...

Bursa prison, mid-winter 1940. Two prisoners meet, both writers, both serving long sentences for allegedly inciting Turkish soldiers to mutiny. One is Turkey's most famous poet and communist, Nazim Hikmet; the other a young, aspiring poet, Orhan Kemal, who now shares a cell with...

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by...

Can we be lonely together?and Asks r.h. Sin in this heartbreaking collection of poetry.A Midnight Moonand is a moving collection of poetry from celebrated bestselling author r.h. Sin. With the honesty and transparency that he has become known for, Sin takes readers on a...

Carnage In December by Ejaz Rahim

Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed “dirty old man, Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some...

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take...

Completely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy. Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love...

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through...

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poemand Beowulfand is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the...

Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water,and Prince Neptuneand presents poems and prose on themes of life, love, fame, escapism, environmentalism, with an overarching narrative of nature as a nod to the author's passion for the earth...

Cute, colorful, and very lively kittens star in this Level One Pinkalicious I Can Read.Pinkalicious and Peter get a big surprise when their foster cat has kittens! Caring for six rambunctious kittens is a huge challenge. Will Pinkalicious and Peter be able to convince...

Daniel Ladinsky's stunning interpretations of 365 soul-nurturing poems-one for each day of the year-by treasured Persian lyric poet Hafiz The poems of Hafiz are masterpieces of sacred poetry that nurture the heart, soul, and mind. With learned insight and a delicate hand, Daniel Ladinsky...

Darya ki Tishnagi

The Iliadis the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan...

'Dazzling', 'brilliant', 'streetwise', 'sassy', 'audacious': THE EMPEROR'S BABE has been hailed as one of the most original novels of 2001. Meet Zuleika: sassy girl about town, hellraiser, bored ex-child-bride in Londinium, AD 211. In the place (and time) to be ... Through the bustling,...

De Profundis and Other Prison Writingsand is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage...

Dear you:Whoever you are,However you got here,This is exactly where you are supposed to be.This moment has waited its whole life for you.These are the opening lines of "Today Means Amen," YouTube star Sierra deMulder's immensely powerful and virally popular poem, which lends its...

Deputy DA Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller are catapulted into the most high-profile investigation of their careers when the teenage daughter of superstar director Russell Antonovich, one of Hollywood's most powerful men, is kidnapped. Things go wrong fast. The young girl's body is...

Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debutand Dancing in Odessaand by Ilya Kaminsky, author ofand Deaf Republic,and draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated...

Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will...