A broad spectrum of poets--including Tupac Shakur, Ntozake Shange, and Seamus Heaney--pay tribute to Nelson Mandela in this collection that stretches from Mandela's imprisonment in 1963 to his 87th birthday in 2005. Nearly 100 poems from 25 countries reflect Mandela's widespread influence, recognizing the passion he inspires and celebrating his legacy of antiapartheid actions.

A book to celebrate the theme of 'food', as part of the Poetry Society's annual 'National Poetry Day' festivities. Perfectly appropriate for the armchair or the kitchen, "Poetry on a Plate" contains mouth-watering recipes by chefs and food writers, including Tony Singh, Frances Bissell, Mary Berry and Anton Edelmann, combined with a delicious assortment of poems. This unique feast features chefs talking about poetry and poets talking about food, garnished with poems selected by the Poetry Society which relate to the ingredients or composition of each recipe. Poets include some of the UK's top contemporary poets as well as their predecessors - Keats and others.

Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates simplicity, emotion, and imagery -- in which only a few words convey worlds of mystery and meaning. This third edition, now completely revised and updated, comprises 850 haiku and senryu a related genre, usually humorous and concerned with human nature) written in English by 89 poets, including the top haiku writers of the American past and present. A new foreword details developments since the publication of the last edition.