Description
‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure‘ Nick Laird
These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most durable and interesting poets.
A Quarter of an Hour 
Brand New Ancients 
Hold Your Own 
What I Learned from Johnny Bevan 
I Wanna Be Yours 
Swansea Automatic 
Selected Poetry 
Then What 
Whitsun Weddings: Faber Modern Classics 
Counting Backwards 
Isn't Forever 
The 'White City' 
Just You and the Page 
Book of Mercy 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
The Master Miners 
Being Alive 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
Everything Is Going to Be All Right 
Steep Tea 
Poems