Poetry & Drama

Looking for the best poetry books by your favourite wordsmiths or drama books by or about your favourite thespians? You’re in the right place! Browse our wonderfully dramatic selection of literary plays, prose, and poems.
Ash Keys
Michael Longley

Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast'A master in an...

Read More
Victor and Barry's Kelvinside Compendium
Alan Cumming

‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story is a beezer!

It’s a stoatir, so it is!’Victor and Barry are the epitome of the expression ‘big in the 80s’.

Annoyingly, they were also a little big in the...

Read More
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes

A dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinSince the publication of his first book, Muscular Music, in 1999,...

Read More
Grand Tour
Elisa Gonzalez

‘A mesmerizing book, deeply original, one of the most profound reading experiences I’ve had in years … one feels most urgently her extraordinary force, her dignity, her savage hunger, her...

Read More
Polkadot Wounds
Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Polkadot Wounds is a delight, wrestling with life in our restless times.

Capildeo entices us to enter conversations with others (dead and living), amongst glimpsing reflections of...

Read More