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Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (Faber Library)

10 best books like Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (Faber Library) (Ted Hughes): The War Poems, Behind My Eyes [With CD], Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod, Dancing in Odessa, Death of a Naturalist, High Windows, Kid, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Tell Me the Truth about Love, Collected Poems

The War Poems
AuthorSiegfried Sassoon
ISBN0571202659
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
Behind My Eyes [With CD]
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0393065421
Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States s most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward...
Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811213994
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London...
Dancing in Odessa
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN1932195122
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky is a recent Russian immigrant and rising poetic star. Despite the fact that he is a non-native speaker, Kaminksy's sense of rhythm and lyic surpasses that of most contemporary poets in the English language....
Death of a Naturalist
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0571202403
Some books are thin and light, yet they carry so much weight, like Heaney's Death of a Naturalist. Each poem in this collection is a work of art, a masterpiece. There is neither pretentiousness nor symbolism here. The collection is one of his most accessible and the best place to start with his work. Each...
High Windows
AuthorPhilip Larkin
ISBN0571114512
Before I developed my own politics I loved Larkin, for his way with words and ability to tug the heartstrings with maudlin reflections. He's got some great lines. But I can't read him now; he looks down on people too much, he's too conventional, too conservative, too narrowly, comfortably English. Of...
Kid
AuthorSimon Armitage
ISBN0571166075
'Without Photographs'

We literally stumble over the bits
and pieces, covered with ash
and tarpaulin, stashed into corners,
all that tackle under the old mill.
I don't know how we finally figure it out,
poking around in the half-dark,
coming across the neatly coiled...
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
AuthorWendy Cope
ISBN0571137474

When I was at university and writing endless essays about The Waste Land, few things gave me greater pleasure (because I am not a big Eliot fan) than pulling out Wendy Cope's ‘Waste Land Limericks’, in which she condenses the whole poem into five admirably no-nonsense quintains:

I
In...
Tell Me the Truth about Love
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0571202608
Had he been writing now, W.H. Auden might well have penned a poem entitled "Tell me the Truth About Publishing", for the publication of this special, short collection was directly inspired by the runaway success of the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral in which one of Auden's poems was recited.

Stretching...
Collected Poems
AuthorJohn Betjeman
ISBN0719568501
betjeman's great poem, "slough" is surely the inspiration for one of the great songs of the 20th century, dontcha think? check the excerpts:

slough

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come,...
Geography III
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374514402
Second read. I haven’t the faintest recollection of writing the below review in 2014. .
Insomnia Diary
AuthorBob Hicok
ISBN0822958422
One of the best books of poetry I've read. Hicok can hit hard, but he doesn't lose himself in savagery--there's room in his attitude for sensitivity and bemusement. Often, when he does work with a bitter pen, he aims it at his own self, but even there he flavors his vinegar with compassion. Most importantly,...
The Branch Will Not Break
AuthorJames Wright
ISBN0819510181

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” When I first heard this Emily Dickinson quote, I knew exactly what she meant. After all, I had read The Branch Will Not Break when I was eighteen.

It was 1967. I was already writing verse--very bad verse--and...
Selected Poems
AuthorMary Ruefle
"Mary Ruefle is one of the brilliant American poets of our time. Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result is a poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely...
Still Another Day
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN1556592248
“Neruda’s lyricism wakes us up, even in the face of death, to the connections we have with our land, inner and outer.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

The first authorized English translation of Aún, considered among Neruda’s finest long poems.

More aware than ever of...
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