Poems
Read poems from poetry collections published by Faber, from T. S. Eliot to the present day, including our weekly poem feature.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Namanlagh’ by Tom Paulin, the title poem from his T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted new …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Stag’ by Matthew Francis, from his new book The Green Month.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘The Peninsula’ by Seamus Heaney, from Door into the Dark.
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Our Poem of the Week is ‘[ ] noise’ by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, from her collection …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘Anna Karenina’, from Who Is Mary Sue?, Sophie Collins’s fearless and …
Our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘Creation Myth’ by Julia Copus, from her 2019 collection, Girlhood.
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is 'To My Guitarist', taken from Ange Mlinko's UK debut Foxglovewise.
![Poem of the Week: ‘[Chevron]’ by Simon Armitage](https://www.faber.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Simon-Armitage-credit-Paul-Stuart-Photography-Ltd-m-600x400.jpg)
Our Poem of the Week is ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth, featured in Seamus Heaney’s selection …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ by Christopher Reid, featured in Toys / Tricks / Traps.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Actaeon’ by Lavinia Greenlaw, featured in her Selected Poems.
‘The Ministry of Fear’ refracts the troubled history of Ireland through a broader account of the histories, myths and peoples …
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘Considering the Snail’ by Thom Gunn.
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ by Philip Larkin, the title poem from his much-loved …
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘Heartbreakfast’ by Hugo Williams, from his collection Fast Music.
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘Circles’ by Mary Jean Chan, from their collection Bright Fear.
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘blue-screen’ by Richard Scott, from his debut collection Soho.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney, from the iconic Irish poet’s classic first collection, Death of …
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘The Anchorage’, the title poem from Bernard O’Donoghue’s new collection. You can …
As Faber publishes two new editions of Sylvia Plath’s essential, inspirational collection, read the opening of poet Emily Berry’s new …
This week, our Poem of the Week is ‘De-extinction Postcard’ by Tishani Doshi from Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is 'Night', from Toby Martinez de las Rivas’s poetry collection, Floodmeadow.
Read a poem by Simon Armitage, commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is an extract from 'Of the Snail & its Loveliness', which comes …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is 'Foxglovewise', taken from Ange Mlinko's debut UK collection of the same …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘How are you, coworker?’ by Joe Dunthorne, from his debut collection of poetry, O …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘Hive’, from Dwell, Simon Armitage’s brand new illlustrated collection inspired by …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘To the woman sobbing into her phone on a park bench’, …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘The Saints’, from Who Is Mary Sue?, Sophie Collins's fearless and …
Our Poem of the Week is an extract from White Egrets by Derek Walcott, ‘My climate now is the marsh’.
Our poem of the week is ‘The Tomato Salad’ from Emily Berry’s irresistible and life-affirming 2013 debut collection, Dear …
Jack Underwood’s selection from Maurice Riordan’s work over the last forty years allows us to rediscover a poet whose musicality, …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Foxglove Country’ from England’s Green, Zaffar Kunial’s distinctive and original second collection.