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‘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.
All Along You Were Blooming 
Ambit No.16: includes Too Many Flesh Suppers, Brought Very Close, At Eight Years Old, Duaghter, An Instance, Laying Out, Independence 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
Luck Is the Hook 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
The Handle of the Door 
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles 
About Poems and How Poems Are Not About 
A Quarter of an Hour 
Centres of Cataclysm 
Surrealist Poetry 
Will Burns 
Comic Poems 
Then Come Back 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Cat Poems 
Frost Fair 
101 Poems About Childhood 
Jinx