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Love Poems

£105

Illustrated by Mikki Lee

Introduced By Imtiaz Dharker

From whispered sonnets to timeless verses, Love Poems gathers the most beautiful words ever written on love. Introduced by Imtiaz Dharker and adorned with Mikki Lee’s luminous illustrations, this enchanting collection is made to treasure – the perfect book to fall head over heels for.

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Love Poems

£105
Book Details
 
Production DetailsBound in printed and blocked cloth with a design by Jo Walker
Ribbon marker
Gilded book edges
Slipcase covered in printed and blocked cloth
Dimensions10 inches x 6¾ inches
FontTypeset at The Folio Society in Minion
Pages264 pages
Includes over 150 poems
AuthorVarious
Illustrated byMikki Lee
Illustration8 full page colour illustrations
Publication Date13/01/2026
PrintingFirst Printing
Editor's Notes
 
Love Poems brings together voices from across centuries and cultures to capture love in all its forms – passionate, tender, joyful and sorrowful. Curated by Imtiaz Dharker, the poems are arranged not by timeline or geography but by theme. From Sappho to Sylvia Plath, from Walt Whitman to Derek Walcott, Love Poems gathers an extraordinary chorus of voices exploring love in all its complexity. With poems translated from Greek, Tamil, Arabic, Catalan and more, this is a truly global celebration of love – intimate, universal and infinitely resonant.
Synopsis
 
Love in all its forms takes centre stage in this brilliant anthology, selected and introduced by award-winning poet Imtiaz Dharker. Spanning centuries and continents, the collection gathers voices as diverse as John Donne and Carol Ann Duffy, Sappho and Audre Lorde, Derek Walcott and Bhartṛhari – each poem brought vividly to life by Mikki Lee's dreamy illustrations. From the rush of first desire to the ache of absence, from fleeting encounters to the quiet devotion of a lifetime, these poems distil the mess, the magic and the profound humanity of love. In her introduction, Dharker offers a poet's perspective on the selection, celebrating poetry as the language of connection.

About the Illustrator

Mikki Lee

Mikki Lee is a Korean-American illustrator and designer whose work blends the traditional with the surreal. Her imaginative, highly stylised illustrations earned her the top prize in the prestigious Book Illustration Competition – a collaboration between The Folio Society and House of Illustration. As part of her winning commission, she created a breathtaking series of artworks that celebrate the cultural richness and lyrical beauty of the poetry collection they accompany. Lee’s illustrations are dreamlike and luminous, drawing inspiration from a broad range of visual traditions while remaining unmistakably her own.

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About the Illustrator

Mikki Lee

Mikki Lee is a Korean-American illustrator and designer whose work blends the traditional with the surreal. Her imaginative, highly stylised illustrations earned her the top prize in the prestigious Book Illustration Competition – a collaboration between The Folio Society and House of Illustration. As part of her winning commission, she created a breathtaking series of artworks that celebrate the cultural richness and lyrical beauty of the poetry collection they accompany. Lee’s illustrations are dreamlike and luminous, drawing inspiration from a broad range of visual traditions while remaining unmistakably her own.

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About the Illustrator

Mikki Lee

Mikki Lee is a Korean-American illustrator and designer whose work blends the traditional with the surreal. Her imaginative, highly stylised illustrations earned her the top prize in the prestigious Book Illustration Competition – a collaboration between The Folio Society and House of Illustration. As part of her winning commission, she created a breathtaking series of artworks that celebrate the cultural richness and lyrical beauty of the poetry collection they accompany. Lee’s illustrations are dreamlike and luminous, drawing inspiration from a broad range of visual traditions while remaining unmistakably her own.

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About the Illustrator

Mikki Lee

Mikki Lee is a Korean-American illustrator and designer whose work blends the traditional with the surreal. Her imaginative, highly stylised illustrations earned her the top prize in the prestigious Book Illustration Competition – a collaboration between The Folio Society and House of Illustration. As part of her winning commission, she created a breathtaking series of artworks that celebrate the cultural richness and lyrical beauty of the poetry collection they accompany. Lee’s illustrations are dreamlike and luminous, drawing inspiration from a broad range of visual traditions while remaining unmistakably her own.

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About the Illustrator

Mikki Lee

Mikki Lee is a Korean-American illustrator and designer whose work blends the traditional with the surreal. Her imaginative, highly stylised illustrations earned her the top prize in the prestigious Book Illustration Competition – a collaboration between The Folio Society and House of Illustration. As part of her winning commission, she created a breathtaking series of artworks that celebrate the cultural richness and lyrical beauty of the poetry collection they accompany. Lee’s illustrations are dreamlike and luminous, drawing inspiration from a broad range of visual traditions while remaining unmistakably her own.

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About the Introducer

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and filmmaker whose work spans continents and cultures. Born in Lahore and raised in Glasgow, she has been described as the ‘poet of displacement, identity and belonging’ – themes she explores with striking emotional clarity. Her poems are widely studied and performed, and she is as celebrated for her readings as she is for her words on the page.

In 2014, Dharker was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She became Chancellor of Newcastle University in 2020. Her collections include Purdah, Postcards from God, I Speak for the Devil, Leaving Fingerprints, Over the Moon and Luck is the Hook, often accompanied by her own ink drawings – visual counterparts to her spare, luminous verse.

Whether writing about grief or joy, the personal or the political, Dharker has an uncanny way of speaking directly to her reader.