Little Poems

From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong- a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through the ages

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out – a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or Carol Ann Duffy; a miniature story by Hardy, Rumi or Roethke; a pithy meditation by Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson or Lorca. Dip again, and discover the compressed wit of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash; contemporary poets Simon Armitage and Moniza Alvi at their most succinct; short poems in very odd shapes from Apollinaire and Vaclav Havel … So few lines, so much variety- epitaphs and epigrams; couplets and quatrains; lyrics, limericks and lullabies – go on, dip again.

Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
Imprint: Everyman’s Library UK
Publication date: 01/09/2023
Series: Everyman’s Library POCKET POETS