anthony thwaite

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were bot...

Further Requirements

Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was high...

Collected Poems

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on an...

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are of...

R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry

A best of R.S. Thomas's poems in a beautiful new gift edition

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to p...

Deserts of Hesperides

This book is a record of my life in and reactions to Libya during the two periods I have lived th...

Deserts of Hesperides

This book is a record of my life in and reactions to Libya during the two periods I have lived th...

Poetry Today

This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It...

Poetry Today

This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It...

At the Garden’s Dark Edge

Anthony Thwaite (1930-2021) was one of the most formidable voices in postwar English letters. Dee...

Odyssee zu den historischen Stätten am Mittelmeer.