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Poetry, and especially 20th-century English poetry, is one of my greatest passions, a life-long love. I have a private collection in my bookshop of my favourite poets, so please come this way...
Open one of W.H. Auden's poetry collections at random and let your mind float free... Or would you prefer a taste of Philip Larkin's bleak cynicism or Seamus Heaney's engagement with the world at large? Of course, if you're in search of immortal beauty, you'd better take Emily Dickinson's collected poems to hand and be baffled by the timeless quality of her works. Or maybe something modern is more to your taste? Then read a few poems by Sonia Sanchez, sensual, vibrant, bluesy, and breathtaking...

Has your interest been piqued? Take a look at the poetry collections of Richard Wilbur, for instance Things Of This World, Advice to a Prophet, or The Beautiful Changes. Gorgeous, down-to-earth poetry. Or perhaps Ezra Pound is more to your liking? He could very well have been the only one who could fully understand his Cantos, but it's still musical poetry of the highest quality. The same goes for Marianne Moore, by the way, but just take the trouble to read the poems in her Complete Poems out loud...
Of course Shakespeare's Sonnets are a classic. This wouldn't be a proper bookshop without them! There are lots of copies on the market, and loads of "special selections" (like Sonnets about Love, or Sonnets about Friendship), but I don't go for those. A complete collection is, in my opinion, still the best choice.

If you're looking for poets beyond the displayed section, take a look at the rest of my Poetry cabinet.

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