Stop All the Clocks: Poems of Love and Loss

Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his best known, most lucid poems, poems that pitch human frailty against a persisting desire for love and belonging. Here are the anxieties that beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement.

Poetry to reach for in times of turmoil

W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his most well-known and lucid poems, poems that give shape and expression to our strongest emotions. Here are the anxieties that can beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement. And here, in these resonant, dazzling poems, is the clarity and understanding we might be looking for.

• | Author: W.H. Auden
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Nov 20, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571396825
• | ISBN-10: 0571396828