This collection of poetry by Muriel Spark presents the full range of one of Britain's most acclaimed writers. It includes villanelles, ballads and epigrams, as well as freer forms, all marked by her sharp observations and command of her medium.

By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in 'Dearly' are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.

Including work, from the funny to the sad, the personal to the philosophical, this volume has an autobiographical strand, and some reflections on John's father. It also includes animal-related poems, and drawings accompanied by a photograph or two.

This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from 'Secret Narratives' (1983) to his most recent volume, 'Randomly Moving Particles' (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems. Certain preoccupations unite the book, which from first to last is particularly concerned with the ways in which our lives are shaped by loss - by wars, by accidents, by the erosions of time and by grief....

'May Day' is the long-awaited new collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. As the title suggests, these poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay's childhood, accompanying her parents' Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects...

Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically, Duffy also adds to her selection one wholly new poem.

Whether she's writing letters to her younger self, advocating for women's rights or adapting fairy tales to process an abusive relationship, Len's voice is bold, unashamedly frank and unmistakably hers. The poems in this collection, both funny and fiercely feminist, announce a formidable new talent. Moving deftly between English and Scots, 'Poyums' is as approachable as it is affecting.

Roger McGough has constructed a hilarious diary, written in verse, for the unfortunate Chi who at the end of each poem is confronted with three courses of action.

Adam Thorpe's fifth collection of poetry finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief, his poems argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'.