Damon Runyon 
The Tents of Trouble [PDF ebook] 

The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mas …

From the benighted Old Man with a Beard to the erudite Perpendicular Purple Polly, Edward Lear”s world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of oddities. One of the world”s most loved writers, Lear …

The subject matter of Richard Skinner’s witty and reflective poems starts with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and concludes with the events of the first Easter, taki …

Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2008‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of intense, moving …

First published in 1991. It was the lyric poetry of Petrarch that popularized the sonnet in European literature, that set the standard for love poetry for centuries to follow. Compared to the large v …

Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote—at times movingly or humorously—about their pets. They did so in a wider literary context, for poetry about pets was ubiquitous in the per …

These remarkably silly rhymes will make you laugh, just right to dip into when you have a few minutes to spare! …

The first collection of poetry from rural American writer D. B. Tompsett. Robert Frost famously described writing free verse to be ’ . . . like playing tennis with the net down.’ D. B. Tompsett is pl …