Poems
Read poems from poetry collections published by Faber, from T. S. Eliot to the present day, including our weekly poem feature.
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.
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 …