James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, The New Faber Book of Love Poems contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favorites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs. There are poems by men about women, women about men, men about men and women about women - in short, something for everyone, and a must-have for everyone's bookshelf.

Based on the long-running and extremely popular BBC Radio 4 programme 'Poetry Please', this collection features the most requested and most-listened to poems.

From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, and a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, and Carol Ann Duffy, this book includes love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.

As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons. This book features poems about harvest and hardship, growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and the closing of the year.

Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh powerful language, feeling and thought. It includes poems by Raymond Antrobus, Simon Armitage, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Vahni Capildeo, Alice Oswald and Claudia Rankine.