Billy Collins

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin...

"Billy Collin's first new book in three years contains more than forty new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom that have made him one of our most beloved poets"--

Billy Collins’ use of humor is one of the most distinguishing characteristics of his poetry.  In this benefit performance for WNYC, comedian Bill Murray begins the evening with a delightfully witty introduction and an homage to the former Poet Laureate.
In a performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City on April 20, 2005, Billy Collins shared 24 of his poems. In addition to the readings, Collins also spent some time...

A collection of poetry by American poet Billy Collins which reflects themes on boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and writing.

Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Questions About Angels-one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation...

""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither Haiku nor limmerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the...

The former U.S. poet laureate and best-selling author of Nine Horses and Around the Room presents a new compilation of his acclaimed poems, some of which have never before been published.

A collection of poems offers insights into common and unusual life events and the human condition.

Presents an illustrated poem about a young boy who sets sail in a boat that magically becomes a book, and as he begins to read, the boy finds himself living out the adventure contained in its pages. "Voyage is an illustrated poem of fantasy, imagination, and magical transformations. A young boy searching the beach for treasure comes across a sailboat and pushes out to sea. Magically the boat becomes a book, and the little boy finds himself living...