Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have int

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the persona

A beautiful poetry collection chosen by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have ask