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This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy's craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple – school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet.

Praised for their simplicity and sincerity, the poems of Sappho evoke powerful and memorable images through her focus on emotion and individualism that foreshadows modern poetry. This collection, translated by John Myers O’Hara, includes over 75 poems such as “Ode to Aphrodite,” “The Roses,” “Eros,” and “The Swallow.” Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez) - "In his work a continent awakens to consciousness," wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers and political figures—a loyal member of the Communist party, a lifelong diplomat and onetime senator, a man lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet&q

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry — Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen. By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms. Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.

Named a Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub, Vulture, Time. A Publishers Weekly 2022 Holiday Gift Pick. One of Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022," NPR's 2022 "Books We Love," and Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022." A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist. From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

A hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems—about London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now. Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize - Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.

In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.

In a deeply troubled world, Susan Ioannou asks how can a poet "Make it beautiful", as her Muse insists. Looking for Light attempts to answer – travelling through place and time and other arts. Turning inward, the poems blend spirituality, nature, and the mysterious forces that brought us into being and invisibly sustain us, body and soul. The final section ponders transformation – both physical and emotional – as ageing's challenges drive a larger vision of what may come after the inevitable happens.