Books like Odes to Common Things
Short odes to ordinary things: an onion, a tomato, a pair of socks, a lemon, a spoon, a chair.
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The Book of Questions
Neruda's last book: seventy-four short poems made entirely of questions, such as why trees conceal the splendour of their roots.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Light verse about the cats of London: Macavity the mystery cat, Growltiger, Mr Mistoffelees, Skimbleshanks the railway cat and the naming of cats.
The Captain's Verses
Love poems Neruda first published anonymously, written for Matilde Urrutia during their secret affair in exile.
Selected Poems
Poems from across Mistral's life, of lost love, motherhood and children, faith and the landscapes of Chile, in Ursula K. Le Guin's translation.
Map: Collected and Last Poems
The complete poems of Szymborska's working life, from the 1940s to the poems left on her desk when she died.
Madwomen
Mistral's late sequence of poems of women on the edge, the abandoned, the obsessed, the dispossessed, among them The Fugitive, The Unbeliever and The Other.
Christmas Days
Twelve Christmas stories, from ghosts to a magic box, each paired with a recipe and a memory from Winterson's own Christmases.
Platero and I
Prose poems of a poet and Platero, his small silver-grey donkey, walking the streets and fields of Moguer, an Andalusian village, through the seasons of a year.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
My City: A Hong Kong Story
Ah Gor, a young man just out of school, takes a job with the telephone company and wanders Hong Kong, in a playful, childlike portrait of the city in the 1970s.
The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
Homie
A book-length love letter to the friends who keep Smith alive, in poems that refuse both despair and easy access.