 | Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
Buy new: £21.99 / Used from: £18.86 Unrivalled breadth and depth of vision. Auden looked at human nature and civilisation and "saw it all". Without a doubt, my favourite poetry collection.
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 | Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy used from: £9.50 For sheer artistry, Larkin is one of the greatest poets in the English language. His way with an enjambement is something else. Depressing, but perversely exhilarating at the same time.
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 | Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas by R S Thomas
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £3.99 Time after time, Thomas hews satisfying chunks of raw poetry from themes of man's search for God, and the grimly beautiful Welsh countryside. Thrusts shafts of profundity into your consciousness.
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 | Collected Later Poems: 1988-2000 by R.S. Thomas
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £4.95 Thomas was that rare thing, a poet with staying power. Right up to the end, he came up trumps.
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 | The Rule of Three by Elizabeth Garrett
Buy used from: £0.01 Intriguing, crystalline poems: strange, dreamy, impersonal, erotic; sometimes hard to understand, but never to appreciate.
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 | Edward Thomas. Collected Poems. by Edward Thomas
Buy new: £8.58 / Used from: £6.18 Strange, unsettling nature poems, permeated by a sense of indefinable existential loss. The typesetter should have given each poem its own page, though.
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 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £10.49 Original, elusive and sensual. Perhaps this poetry satisfies the ear and the mind more than the soul, but it is highly intriguing.
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 | Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £12.29 / Used from: £4.68 Melancholy and highly personal poetry, which laments the passage of time, the implacability of fate, the difficulty of living (and loving) in the moment. Formal inventiveness on every page.
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 | Collected Poems by Tony Harrison
Buy used from: £30.00 He's tailed off recently, but his earlier work is both highly accessible and exhilaratingly intricate in its handling of metaphor and symbol.
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 | Collected Poems 1909-62 by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £1.00 Certainly he was sometimes pretentious, but there's no denying his work's evocativeness or, of course, its importance.
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