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 ‘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.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘You’re’ by Sylvia Plath, from her collection Ariel.
Our Poem of the Week is Daljit Nagra’s 'In a White Town', from his witty, intelligent and mischievous debut collection …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘The Spectators’ from Blossomise, Simon Armitage’s glorious collaboration with the illustrator Angela Harding, celebrating …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘In which I practise happiness’ by Joe Dunthorne, from his debut collection of poetry, …
On 4 July 2024, Faber will publish Gboyega Odubanjo’s much anticipated first collection, Adam. In doing so, we join in …
This week's Poem of the Week is 'The Beginning' by Wendy Cope, from her Collected Poems, out on 12 September …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Dream of a Dog’ by Emily Berry, extracted from her 2022 collection, Unexhausted Time.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘The Question’ by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, from his 2021 collection Living Weapon, his first publication …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Ars Poetica VIII’ from Bright Fear, Mary Jean Chan’s gleaming second collection.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Anahorish’ from Wintering Out, Seamus Heaney’s third collection of poetry.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Folk Song’ from Blossomise, Simon Armitage’s glorious collaboration with the illustrator Angela Harding, celebrating …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Snowdrop’ from England’s Green, Zaffar Kunial’s distinctive and original second collection.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘A Light exists in Spring’, Emily Dickinson’s reflection on the unique light of spring …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘When the Sparrow Flies’ from the Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith, one …
Our Poem of the Week is ‘The God of Stories’, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, a work that reminds us of the …
Our Poem of the Week is 'Anne Redferne', from Camille Ralphs's debut collection, After You Were, I Am. The book’s …
Rachael Allen shares the prose and poetry that inspired God Complex, her second poetry collection.
Our Poem of the Week is 'le jardin secret' from Richard Scott's debut collection Soho, an uncompromising portrait of love …
Appropriately for Valentine's Day, our Poem of the Week is Thom Gunn's 'The Hug', from his 2002 collection The Man …
This week, our Poem of the Week is Seamus Heaney's 'Song', from his 1979 collection, Field Work.