Penguin's Poems for Love
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LEONARD COHEN: ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’ from Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs. Copyright © Leonard Cohen, 1993. Published in the UK by Jonathan Cape and in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
WENDY COPE: ‘Loss’ from Serious Concerns (Faber and Faber, 2002), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
JULIA COPUS: ‘In Defence of Adultery’ from In Defence of Adultery (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
FRANCES CORNFORD: ‘The Avenue’ from Selected Poems (Enitharmon Press, 1996), reprinted by permission of the Estate of Frances Cornford and the publishers as its representative.
E. E. CUMMINGS: ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in’, ‘may i feel said he’ and ‘somewhere i have travelled, gladly beyond’ from Complete Poems 1904–62 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1991). Copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust and George James Firmage. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company.
BABETTE DEUTSCH: ‘Solitude’ from Banners (George H. Doran, 1919), reprinted by permission of Michael Yarmolinsky, heir to the Estate of Babette Deutsch.
EMILY DICKINSON: ‘It was a quiet way – ’, ‘If you were coming in the Fall’, ‘Come slowly – Eden!’, ‘He fumbles at your Soul’, ‘I have no Life but this – ’, ‘My life closed twice before its close’ from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and the Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College.
ISOBEL DIXON: ‘You, Me and the Orang-utan’ from Ask for It by Name (Unfold Press, 2008) Copyright © Isobel Dixon, 2008. Reprinted by permission of the author. ‘truce’ copyright © Isobel Dixon, 2000. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MICHAEL DONAGHY: ‘The Present’ and ‘Pentecost’ from Dances Learned Last Night (Picador, 2000). Copyright © Michael Donaghy, 2000. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
CAROL ANN DUFFY: ‘Words, Wide Night’ from The Other Country (Anvil Press Poetry, 1990) and ‘Warming her Pearls’ from Selling Manhattan (Anvil Press Poetry, 1987), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
IAN DUHIG: ‘From the Irish’ from The Bradford Count (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), reprinted by permission of the author.
HELEN DUNMORE: ‘Wild Strawberries’ from Out of the Blue: Poems 1975–2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2001), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
DOUGLAS DUNN: ‘Reincarnations’ from Elegies (Faber and Faber, 2001), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
STEPHEN DUNN: ‘Each from Different Heights’ from Between Angels (W. W. Norton & Co, 1989). Copyright © 1989 by Stephen Dunn. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
PAUL DURCAN: ‘My Belovèd Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout’ from A Snail in my Prime (Harvill and Blackstaff Press, 1993). Copyright © Paul Durcan, 1993. Reprinted by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
T.S. ELIOT: ‘La Figlia Che Piange’ from T. S. Eliot: The Complete Poems and Plays (Faber and Faber, 1969). Copyright © Valerie Eliot, 1969. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
WILLIAM EMPSON: ‘Villanelle’ from The Complete Poems, edited by John Haffenden (Penguin, 2000). Copyright © William Empson, 1935. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of William Empson.
GAVIN EWART: ‘Creation Myth Haiku’ and ‘Ending’ from Selected Poems 1933–93 (Hutchinson, 1996), reprinted by permission of Mrs Margo Ewart.
U. A. FANTHORPE: ‘Atlas’ from Safe as Houses (1995) in Collected Poems 1978–2003 (Peterloo Poets, 2005), reprinted by permission of Dr R. V. Bailey.
VICKI FEAVER: ‘Lily Pond’ from The Handless Maiden (Jonathan Cape, 1994), reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
ELAINE FEINSTEIN: ‘Hands’ from Talking to the Dead (Carcanet, 2007), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
JAMES FENTON: ‘Hinterhof’ from Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006). Copyright © 1993 Salamander Press. Reprinted by permission of United Agents.
DUNCAN FORBES: ‘Recension Day’ from Taking Liberties (Enitharmon Press, 1993), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
JOHN FULLER: ‘Valentine’ from Collected Poems (Chatto & Windus, 1996), reprinted by permission of United Agents.
ELIZABETH GARRETT: ‘Epithalamium’ from The Rule of Three (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), reprinted by permission of the author.
ROBERT GRAVES: ‘Not to Sleep’ from Complete Poems in One Volume, edited by Patrick Quinn (Carcanet, 2000), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
LAVINIA GREENLAW: ‘Tryst’ from A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Faber and Faber, 1993), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
EMILY GROSHOLZ: ‘On Spadina Avenue’ from Eden (John Hopkins University Press, 1992). Copyright © 1992 by Emily Grosholz. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THOM GUNN: ‘The Bed’ and ‘Jamesian’ from Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2004), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
SOPHIE HANNAH: ‘The End of Love’ from The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Carcanet, 1995), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
GWEN HARWOOD: ‘Anniversary’ from Selected Poems, edited by Gregory Kratzmann, Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood VIC, 2001. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Group (Australia).
SEAMUS HEANEY: ‘Scaffolding’ from Death of a Naturalist (Faber and Faber, 1966). Copyright © Seamus Heaney, 1966. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS: ‘The Unpredicted’ from Collected Poems 1943–87 (Carcanet Press, 1988) reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd on behalf of the author’s estate.
PIET HEIN: ‘What Love is Like’, copyright © Piet Hein Grooks. Reprinted with kind permission from Piet Hein a/s, DK-5500 Middelfart, Denmark.
A. D. HOPE: ‘A Blason’ from Collected Poems 1930–70 (Angus & Robertson, 1966), reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Australia.
TED HUGHES: ‘Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days’ and ‘Lovesong’ from Collected Poems, edited by Paul Keegan (Faber and Faber, 2003). Copyright © the Estate of Ted Hughes, 2003. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS: ‘Light’ and ‘Passion’ from Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2002) reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON: ‘Hurricane Blues’ from Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006). Copyright © Linton Kwesi Johnson. Reprinted by permission of LKJ Music Publishers Ltd.
JENNY JOSEPH: ‘Dawn walkers’ and ‘The sun has burst the sky’ from Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1992). Copyright © Jenny Joseph, 1992. Reprinted by permission of Johnson & Alcock Ltd.
JACKIE KAY: ‘Her’ and ‘High Land’ from Darling: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
GALWAY KINNELL; ‘Kissing the Toad’ from New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Galway Kinnell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Carcanet Press Ltd. All rights reserved.
PHILIP LARKIN: ‘Broadcast’ and ‘Talking in Bed’ from Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber and Faber, 1988). Copyright © 1988, 1989 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
TIM LIARDET: ‘Needle on Zero’ from To the God of Rain (Seren, 2003) reprinted by permission of the publisher.
LIZ LO CHHEAD: ‘Morning After’ from Collected Poems (Polygon, 1984), reprinted by permission of Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd (www.birlinn.co.uk).
LOUIS MACNEICE: ‘Coda’ and ‘And love hung still as crystal over the bed’ from Collected Poems, edited by E. R. Dodds (Faber and Faber, 2007). Copyright © the Estate of Louis MacNeice. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.
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bsp; OLIVIA MCCANNON: ‘Timing’ and ‘Ironing’, copyright © Olivia McCannon, 2009. Reprinted by permission of the author
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY: ‘The 5:32’ from Times Three (Secker & Warburg, 1961), reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd and Pollinger Ltd.
ROGER MCGOUGH: extract from ‘Summer with Monika’ from Summer with Monika (Penguin, 1991), reprinted by permission of PFD (www.pfd.co.uk) on behalf of Roger McGough.
JAMES MERRILL: ‘A Renewal’ from Collected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser, copyright © 2001 by the Literary Estate of James Merrill at Washington University. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
ANNE MICHAELS: ‘Three Weeks’ from Skin Divers. Copyright © Anne Michaels, 1999. Published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC and in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY: ‘When I too long have looked upon your face’ from Collected Poems of Edna St Vincent Millay, edited by Norma Millay (Harper & Row, 1956). Copyright © 1921, 1948, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor, The Millay Society.
ADRIAN MITCHELL: ‘Celia Celia’ from Greatest Hits (Bloodaxe Books, 1991). Copyright © Adrian Mitchell, 1991. Reprinted by permission of PFD (www.pfd.co.uk) on behalf of the Estate of Adrian Mitchell. Adrian Mitchell Educational Health Warning! None of Adrian Mitchell’s poems to be used in connection with any examinations whatsoever!
JOHN MONTAGUE: ‘All Legendary Obstacles’ from Collected Poems (Gallery Press, 1995), reprinted by permission of the author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland.
EDWIN MORGAN: ‘One Cigarette’ and ‘Strawberries’ from Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990). Copyright © Edwin Morgan, 1990. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
OGDEN NASH: ‘Reprise’ first printed in the New Yorker, copyright © 1974 by Ogden Nash, renewed, reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
LESLÉA NEWMAN: ‘Possibly’ from Signs of Love (Windstorm Creative Ltd, 1991). Copyright © 1991 by Lesléa Newman. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
ALDEN NOWLAN: ‘Parlor Game’ from I’m a Stranger Here Myself (Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1974). Copyright © 1983, Claudine Nowlan. Reprinted by permission of Claudine Nowlan.
ALFRED NOYES: ‘The Highwayman’ from Collected Poems (John Murray, 1950), reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Alfred Noyes.
BERNARD O’DONAGHUE: ‘Stealing Up’ from Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2008), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
FRANK O’HARA: ‘Having a Coke With You’ from The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, edited by Donald Allen, copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Also in Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2005).
SHARON OLDS: ‘True Love’ from The Wellspring, copyright © 1986 by Sharon Olds. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc and Jonathan Cape, a division of The Random House Group Ltd.
ADAM O’RIORDAN: ‘Cheat’ from In the Flesh (Chatto & Windus, 2010). Copyright © Adam O’Riordan, 1997. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL: ‘Between’ from Poems 1975–1995 (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
ALICE OSWALD: ‘I Can’t Sleep’ and ‘Wedding’ from The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (Faber and Faber, 2007), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
DOROTHY PARKER: ‘Symptom Recital’ from The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Marion Meade. Copyright 1926, renewed © 1954 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc and Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
DON PATERSON: ‘The Wreck’ from Landing Light by Don Paterson (Faber and Faber, 2003). Copyright © Don Paterson 2003. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
BRIAN PATTEN: ‘Forgetmeknot’, ‘January Gladsong’ and ‘I Have Changed the Numbers on My Watch’ from Love Poems (Allen & Unwin, 1981). Copyright © Brian Patten, 1981. Reprinted by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
SYLVIA PLATH: ‘The Other Two’ and ‘Love Letter’ from Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2002), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM: ‘Piazza Piece’ from Selected Poems, third edition, revised and enlarged, copyright © 1924, 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, and renewed 1952, 1955 by John Crowe Ransom. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc and Carcanet Press Ltd.
ROBIN ROBERTSON: ‘Trysts’ from Swithering (Picador, 2006). Copyright © Robin Robertson, 2006. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
JUDITH RODRIGUEZ: ‘In-flight Note’ from House by the Water: New and Selected Poems (University of Queensland Press, 1988), reprinted by permission of the author.
MURIEL RUKEYSER: ‘Looking at Each Other’ from The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). Copyright © 2005 by Muriel Rukeyser. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
JACOB SAM-LA ROSE: ‘Things That Could Happen’ from A Storm Between Fingers by Malika’s Kitchen (Flipped Eye Publishing Ltd, 2007). Copyright © Jacob Sam-La Rose, 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.
VIKRAM SETH: ‘Progress Report’ from Mappings (Writers Workshop, 1981). Copyright © Vikram Seth, 1981. Reprinted by permission of David Godwin Associates.
JO SHAPCOTT: ‘Muse’ from Her Book: Poems 1988–98 (Faber and Faber, 2000), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
LEMN SISSAY: ‘Invisible Kisses’ from Morning Breaks in the Elevator (Payback Press, Canongate, 1999), reprinted by permission of the author.
STEVIE SMITH: ‘Infelice’ from Collected Poems (Allen Lane, 1975). Copyright © Stevie Smith, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1950, 1957, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1972. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of James McGibbon.
WILLIAM SOUTAR: ‘The Tryst’ from The Poems of William Soutar: A New Selection (Scottish Academic Press, 1988) by kind permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland.
GERTRUDE STEIN: ‘Kiss my lips. She did’ from Lifting Belly II, edited by Richard Kostelanetz (Yale University Press, 1980), reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd on behalf of the author’s estate.
WALLACE STEVENS: ‘Gray Room’ from Opus Posthumous, edited by Milton J. Bates, copyright © 1989 by Holly Stevens. Preface and selection copyright © 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 1957 by Elsie Stevens and Holly Stevens. Copyright renewed 1985 by Holly Stevens. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc and Faber and Faber Ltd.
ANNE STEVENSON: ‘Sous-Entendu’ from Poems 1955–2005 (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
MATTHEW SWEENEY: ‘Cacti’ from Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2002) and ‘The Bridal Suite’ from The Bridal Suite (Jonathan Cape, 1997), reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
R. S. THOMAS: ‘A Marriage’ from Collected Poems 1945–1990 (J. M. Dent, 1993), reprinted by permission of Phoenix Press, a division of The Orion Publishing Group.
ROSEMARY TONKS: ‘Orpheus in Soho’ from The Iliad of Broken Sentences (Bodley Head, 1967). Copyright © Rosemary Tonks, 1967. Reprinted by permission of Sheil Land Associates.
DEREK WALCOTT: ‘Love After Love’ from Collected Poems 1948–84 (Faber and Faber, 1992), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
MAY THEILGAARD WATTS: ’Vision’ reprinted by permission of Bridget Watts on behalf of the heirs of May Theilgaard Watts.
E. B. WHITE: ‘Natural History’, first published in New Yorker magazine, then in Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1981), reprinted by permission of Allene M. White.
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RD WILBUR: ‘For C.’ from Mayflies: New Poems and Translations, copyright © 2000 by Richard Wilbur, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
C. K. WILLIAMS: ‘Love: Beginnings’ from Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
HUGO WILLIAMS: ‘Nothing On’ and ‘Rhetorical Questions’ from Billy’s Rain (Faber and Faber, 1999), reprinted by permission of the publisher.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: ‘Life Story’ from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1925, 1926, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1991, 1995, 2002 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the Estate of Tennessee Williams.
W. B. YEATS: ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’, ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ and ‘Leda and the Swan’ from Selected Poems edited by Timothy Webb, reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt on behalf of Grainne Yeats.
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Index of Poets
Achebe, Chinua (1930– ) 193
Adcock, Fleur (1934– ) 282
Alvi, Moniza (1954– ) 89
Angelou, Maya (1928– ) 102
Anonymous 68, 104, 184, 202, 283
Armitage, Simon (1963– ) 127
Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832–1904) 197
Arnold, Matthew (1822–88) 186
Atwood, Margaret (1939– ) 342
Auden, W. H. (1907–73) 126, 199
Barnes, Barnabe (c.1568–1609) 110
Barnes, William (1801–86) 19, 218, 335
Barraclough, Simon (1966– ) 5
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (1806–61) xx, 18, 159, 344
Behn, Aphra (1640–89) 156
Bensley, Connie (1929– ) 38
Berryman, John (1914–72) 152