Rain
10 best books like Rain (Don Paterson): A Village Life, White Egrets, American Smooth, Stranger, Baby, The Marlowe Papers, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Of Mutability, Moy Sand and Gravel, The Overhaul: Poems, Middle Earth: Poems
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0374283745 |
All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.
Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees—
The fountain...
| Author | Derek Walcott |
| ISBN | 0374289298 |
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career--the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the...
| Author | Rita Dove |
| ISBN | 0393327442 |
| Author | Emily Berry |
| ISBN | 0571331327 |
Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour...
| Author | Ros Barber |
| ISBN | 1444737392 |
| Author | Wendy Cope |
| ISBN | 0571137474 |
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...
| Author | Jo Shapcott |
| ISBN | 0571254705 |
| Author | Paul Muldoon |
| ISBN | 0374528845 |
| Author | Kathleen Jamie |
| ISBN | 1555977022 |
See when it all unravels—the entire project
reduced to threads of moss fleeing a nor’wester;
d’you ever imagine chasing just...
| Author | Henri Cole |
| ISBN | 0374529280 |
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811214583 |
August. The woods are silent.
No sway of treetops, no skitter of squirrels,
no startled bird. Sky fragments
in rifts of canopy,
palest silken blue.
AWARE
When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among
themselves...
| Author | Alice Oswald |
| ISBN | 0571218520 |
| Author | John Burnside |
| ISBN | 1555977146 |
| Author | Andrew McMillan |
| ISBN | 0224102133 |
Three Poems
| Author | Hannah Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0571337678 |
One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018
Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection is a revelation – three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity, and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0571207626 |
"In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air"
"That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold"
"In the everything flows and steady go of the world."
--from "Perch"
Seamus Heaney's collection travels...
| Author | Simon Armitage |
| ISBN | 0571249906 |
All are welcome at this twilit,...
The Broken Word
| Author | Adam Foulds |
| ISBN | 0224084445 |
In this sequence...
| Author | Philip Levine |
| ISBN | 0307272230 |
In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent...
| Author | Michael Ondaatje |
| ISBN | 0375705414 |
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal...