Well-Versed - Poets in Fiction

The Love-Artist by Jane Alison

In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez

Invisible by Paul Auster

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron: Being a Jane Austen Mystery by Stephanie Barron

All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

The Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan

The Players: A Novel of Young Shakespeare by Stephanie Cowell

Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie

The Raven and the Nightingale: A Modern Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe by Joanne Dobson

A Floating Life: The Adventures of Li Po by Simon Elegant

The White Devil by Justin Evans

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

Sappho: The Tenth Muse by Nancy Freedman

The Diary of Emily Dickinson by Jamie Fuller

Rhoda: A Life in Stories by Ellen Gilchrist

The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt

A Free Life by Ha Jin

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Head Games by Craig McDonald

Lux the Poet by Martin Millar

Passion by Jude Morgan

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey

The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant

Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers

Darker Than Any Shadow: A Tai Randolph Mystery by Tina Whittle

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

The Whole Wide Beauty by Emily Woof

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