Collected poems

A major literary event: the first Collected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy (1985-2015)

The collected work of a major poet including previously unpublished poems

Combining the private and the public in a way Harrison has made distinctly his own, and drawing on his working-class upbringing in Leeds, these are powerful poems for modern times.

Career-defining collection of the most decorated US poet, timed to mark his 90th birthday.

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh…

Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. This is the fullest collection of Mallarme's poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his…

Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works…

The Collected Poems of the acclaimed Manchester-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and composer Anthony Burgess.

Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of 18 Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. This collection includes some of his most famous works such as the ballad "Auld…

"The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia" represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and…

For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition. The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday…

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses.

The collected works of Ireland's greatest lyric poet with an introduction by author and academic Dr Robert Mighall.

In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential…

A collection of children's poems from beloved poet Charles Causley, illustrated by John Lawrence.

Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection charts his passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's…

A collection of poems by Gillian Clarke. Carcanet have also published her "Selected Poems" (1985), "Letting in the Rumour" (1989), and "The King of Britain's Daughter" (1993).

This volume collects the five major books of one of Ireland's leading writers.

The first complete collection of the works of the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their…

William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume II reissued as a Carcanet Classic.

Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery,…

This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet: the haunting elegy to his young sister; the religious drama of his romance with Rome; forbidden sexual desires; and "The Ballad of…

This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry…

The Collected Poems of one of the greatest writers of our age, with an introduction by the author.

New retrospective by Ken Smith (1938-2003), a major voice in world poetry - and the first poet published by Bloodaxe in 1978 - whose work and example inspired a whole generation of younger British poets during the 80s…

An updated paperback edition of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's Collected Poems

This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic…

Chinua Achebe's poetic output is gathered together in this volume by arguably the most influential African writer of the 20th century.

Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition'. This book…

The first of the monumental, definitive two-volume edition of Williams's Collected Poems for the twenty-first century reader.

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes'He is among the greatest poets of the English…

Contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.