Presents some of the greatest love poetry from around the world and through the ages, ranging from W H Auden to William Shakespeare, John Donne to Emily Dickinson, and Robert Browning to Roger McGough.

With her husband, Ebenezer, now 'doornail dead', the coldest Christmas Eve on record finds Mrs Scrooge outside the supermarket, protesting against consumerism and waste. That night, alone in her bed with Catchit the cat beside her, Mrs Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

A collection of poems that shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. It give us a sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.

A collection of poems that reminds you of all those long-forgotten poems that you were taught at school, together with mini-biographies and introductions. It includes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; If ; Dulce et Decorum Est ; Song of Myself ; Digging ; and Not Waving But Drowning .

Draws on some weighty emotional experiences: loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, the fierceness of a mother's love. This book reveals the foibles of the great, the ghastly and the ordinary bloke and the sufferings of those closest to them.

In 1995 BBC Television's Bookworm programme conducted a poll amongst viewers to determine their favourite poems. The top 100 are presented in this book. They include the winner, Kipling's If , and many other classics, as well as modern verse by writers such as Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.

Contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed volumes, Standing Female Nude , Selling Manhattan , The Other Country , and Mean Time (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award), as well as six poems from the The World's Wife .

A collection of poems by T S Eliot.

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This selection from Whoroscope (1930) to 'What is the Word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of writing.

Bird poetry is as old as British poetry itself, and a remarkable number of poets have written poems about birds. This title gathers together some of the best poems that are organized according to ornithological classification.

The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her an admired contemporary poet. This collection of poems aims to serve as a map of real love. It reflects Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion - as either redemptive or destructive.

An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and cunning to the full.

A timeless edition of the bestselling poetry anthology, this time bringing together the best of the 300 poems that have appeared on London's underground trains since the programme began in 1986.

An illustrated book of poetry.

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this anthology brings together the poems in English. Beginning with babies, it is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration.

A collection of poems that intends to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them.

Tells the story of Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death.