Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems Penguin Pocket Poetry

John Keats

In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty-five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing bur...

The Ink Dark Moon

Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu

Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education and refinement were so highly valued that the cou...

Hamlet is Not OK

R.A. Spratt

Selby didn’t plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. Selby Michaels is totally busted. Her parents found out she hasn’t read any books for her English class – not ever! Which was particularly upsetting to them since her parents run the local bookshop. They sentence Selby to hard l...