The Ship of Death: Last Poems

For the first time in a single volume, Bergamot Books will soon release, Ship of Death: Last Poems. These are the final 67 poems D. H. Lawrence wrote in the weeks before his death in 1930, with a new Foreword by award-winning biographer Frances Wilson. Lawrence spent his last days writing with urgency and clarity, producing work that confronts mortality while celebrating the natural world with his signature intensity.

Written from his sickbed on the Côte d'Azur, these poems include meditations on earth, sky, and the cosmos. Wilson's Foreword situates these pieces within Lawrence's restless final years, offering insight into the force behind his last creative burst. This edition invites both long-term admirers and new readers to rediscover Lawrence through the lens of his final, deeply human work written as a mystic not modernist.