James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, "The New Faber Book of Love Poems" contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favourites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Eliza[Read More]

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. 'There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.' Rumi is best known for his poems expressing t[Read More]

Love poetry includes, yes, descriptions of the beloved. And images of a fantastic idyll complete with falling stars, the sound of the sea, and beautiful countryside. In the hands of Surrealists, though, love poetry also includes gravediggers and murderers, dice and garbage, snakeskin purses and "the drunken kisses of cyclones." Surrealism, the move[Read More]

With an introduction by Robert E Hegel, professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Washington University. This is the first translation of classic Chinese poems intended for contemporary English-speaking readers. This new approach makes the sometimes difficult format of classic Chinese poetry accessible to newcomers to the genre. It offers [Read More]

101 Short Love Poems is a collection of poems using life and nature metaphorically to describe a special friend or women. The poems are meant to put love in the air and to spark reminiscent moments about past loves.The book was inspired by the writer's friendship with women he met on the Internet, and each poem was written to express feelings of lo[Read More]