Poetry

"Spectacular ... you can almost smell the surf between the pages." The Times"Five stars - if you take only one picture book away this summer, make ...

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the ...

By J. D. McClatchy Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, ...

Edited by Eve Lacey Illustrated by Emma Wright Most of the poems in The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea feel timeless but not old fashioned. Those...

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, a...

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.'Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at seaIntrod...

Poems to Celebrate Britain's Maritime Heritage A wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating the British coastline and life above and below the deep ...

It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination fro...

'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like li...

John Masefield (1878-1967) is one of the great storytellers of English poetry, a spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships and exotic seas, of the...