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The best doorstop poetry volumes
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
Buy new: £10.72 / Used from: £7.99
The greatest figure to emerge from the Harlem renaisance
Thomas Hardy: The Complete PoemsThomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £11.34
Even better than the novels... England's greatest poet, fabulous edition
Collected Poems 1947-1997Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
Buy used from: £20.20
Massively influental and highly readable... A true original
Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English VersionComplete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English Version by Heinrich Heine
Buy used from: £31.99
Not currently in print, but so worth seaking out...
John Betjeman Collected PoemsJohn Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £5.00
Britain's best loved poet, and rightly so...
The Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)The Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £7.20
Volumous and brilliant....
Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-84Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-84 by Adrian Mitchell
Buy used from: £26.00
The shadow poet laureate. Essential.
Familiar StrangersFamiliar Strangers by Brendan Kennelly
Buy new: £10.80 / Used from: £2.85
Brilliant, dazzling and inventive...
Complete Collected Poems of Maya AngelouComplete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Buy used from: £6.05
Stupid title. Bloody excellent book...
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £4.66
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he deserved it...
Collected Poems of Ted HughesCollected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £10.20 / Used from: £9.98
One of the great figures of 20th Century English poetry....
Collected PoemsCollected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £6.25
Wild yet introspective. Just buy the damn thing...
Candy is Dandy: The Best of Ogden NashCandy is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash
Buy new: £6.86 / Used from: £4.45
Bubbling over with wit and joy
The Poems of Emily DickinsonThe Poems of Emily Dickinson by E Dickinson
Buy new: £14.20 / Used from: £6.49
Fullest edition available. ED should be on every poet's bookshelf...
Collected Poems: v. 1 (Poetry pleiade)Collected Poems: v. 1 (Poetry pleiade) by William Carlos Williams
Buy new: £11.66 / Used from: £18.95
Damn it, you need this and volume two and Paterson... Just buy it...
The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: £9.15 / Used from: £4.65
One of the great American originals...
Collected PoemsCollected Poems by Thom Gunn
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £10.25
A distinctive and rewarding voice
Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998 by Philip Gross
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £3.01
Variable, but still bloody good...
A Puzzling Harvest: Collected Poems 1955-2000A Puzzling Harvest: Collected Poems 1955-2000 by Harry Guest
Buy used from: £6.75
Deserves to be much better known....
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 CompleteHer Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete by Alice Walker
Buy used from: £1.49
Even better than the novels...
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal TimesStaying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £4.90
Brilliant and moving anthology
The Rattle BagThe Rattle Bag
Buy new: £9.91 / Used from: £4.37
One of THE great anthologies...
Poems 1955-2005Poems 1955-2005 by Anne Stevenson
Buy used from: £66.46
Simply wonderful...
Blake: The Complete Poems (Longman Annotated English Poets)Blake: The Complete Poems (Longman Annotated English Poets) by W.H. Stevenson
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £15.98
Excellent and comprehensive edition of one of THE visionaries...
Collected PoemsCollected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £5.52
Almost as good as his fans make out... In other words, damn good...