Faber Poetry Collections 2010

Six wonderful collections published in celebration of Faber's rich poetry heritage.

Kid by Simon Armitage (cover illustration by Peter Clayton)
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope (cover illustration by Ed Kluz)
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin (cover illustration by Michael Kirkman)
Dart by Alice Oswald (cover illustration by Jonathan Gibbs)
Nil, Nil by Don Paterson (cover illustration by Charles Shearer)
Ariel by Sylvia Plath (cover illustration by Sarah Young)

These six gift hardbacks, with illustrated covers and endpapers, continue the great Faber tradition of commissioning original prints for book jackets, and each book showcases the work of a leading illustrator printmaker.

[graphic] Poetry Collections 2010

[graphic] Poetry Collections 2010

  • Ariel by Sylvia Plath

    Ariel
    The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's ...

  • Dart by Alice Oswald

    Dart
    A wonderfully evocative poetic census that forms a narrative of the river Dart.

  • Kid by Simon Armitage

    Kid
    Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with ...

  • Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope

    Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
    When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets. There ...

  • Nil Nil by Don Paterson

    Nil Nil
    Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented ...

  • The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin

    The Whitsun Weddings
    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial ...
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