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 ‘Fluorite’ by Richard Scott. Reverberating with risk, Scott's second collection, That Broke into Shining …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Forty-seven Words’ by Wendy Cope, which appears in Collected Poems.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘An Arundel Tomb’ by Philip Larkin, from his much-loved first collection with Faber, The …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Punishment’ from North, Seamus Heaney’s account of the people, history and landscape of Ireland.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘The Iliad in a Scottish Cemetery by Ange Mlinko, from Foxglovewise, the UK debut …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘In Country Sleep’ by Dylan Thomas.
Our Poem of the Week is an excerpt from ‘Three Poems’ by Hannah Sullivan. Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection is a …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘after St Francis of Assisi’ by Camille Ralphs
Our Poem of the Week is an extract from White Egrets by Derek Walcott.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘A Flower Given to My Daughter’ by James Joyce.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’.
Our poem of the week is W. H. Auden’s ‘Roman Wall Blues’.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘postscript’, the final poem from Bright Fear, Mary Jean Chan’s second collection.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney, from the iconic Irish poet’s classic first collection, Death of …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Breaking’ from Gboyega Odubanjo's debut collection of poetry, Adam.
Our Poem of the Week, ‘Dreaming Is a Form of Knowledge Production’, comes from Victoria Adukwei Bulley's debut poetry collection, …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Red X’ by Ishion Hutchinson, from his collection Far District, the spiritual journey of …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, from his 2021 collection Living Weapon, his …
This month, for Black History month, we have brought together five poems of note. The special article features work by …
Our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘Chiaroscuro’, from Isabelle Baafi’s forthcoming debut collection, Chaotic Good
Our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘Wolfman Jack’ by Julia Copus, from her 2019 collection, Girlhood.
National Poetry Day is an occasion for everyone across the UK to celebrate poetry – in classrooms, bookshops and libraries, …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘A Course in Miracles’, from Who Is Mary Sue?, Sophie Collins's …
Alice Hunt discusses six poems that bring to life Britain’s Republican past, including from Sir Thomas Fairfax, John Milton and …
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is an extract from The Owl and the Nightingale, Simon Armitage's wonderfully …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei’ by Daljit Nagra, from British Museum, a book that asks …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Monomoon’ by Matthew Francis, from a collection that is full of flight, air and …
As the audiobook of After You Were, I Am is published, listen to Camille Ralphs read from her debut collection.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Stop all the clocks’ or ‘Funeral Blues’ by W. H. Auden, which appears in the …
Our poem of the week is ‘Love After Love’ by Derek Walcott, from The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013.
Our poem of the week is ‘Innocent’, from Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe’s spellbinding debut poetry collection, Auguries of a Minor God.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ by Stevie Smith.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Some More Light Verse’ by Wendy Cope, which appears in The Orange and other …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Drypoint’, the title poem from Jamie McKendrick’s upcoming collection, out on 1 August 2024.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Safe Poem’ from Sam Riviere’s collection, Conflicted Copy, which is out now.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted’ by Emily Dickinson.