Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367629Author Stuart MaconieFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 275g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735617Author Jared SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908779595Author Turning PointFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Step Beach PressPublisher Step Beach Press

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published...

Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems from the...

The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465271Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725948Author Sarah WimbushPage Count 32Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533069Author Christian WimanFormat PaperbackImprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680322Author Alexis SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 140g

George Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling. Habitual providential and typological interpretation imbued matter with meaning, and connected it with the rest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565146Author Odelia YoungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and...

A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including...

One of the greatest poems of the classical world, Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation.'Georgic' means 'to work the earth', and this poetic guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994430663Author Mary WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598395Author John LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710810Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

"I thought 2020 would be the year I got everything I wanted. Now I know 2020 was the year I appreciated everything I have." From the author of Self Love Poetry comes a new collection of transformative poetry focused on reframing thoughts and seeing...

In this astounding debut, Solmaz Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. These poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this book are words and phrases lifted from...

Far Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles...

Dazzling illustrated poetry from the magical mind of Tim Minchin. This is his first ever book and features a foreword from Neil Gaiman.A storm is brewing in the confines of a London dinner party. Small talk quickly descends into a verbal and intellectual...

As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II), Trilogys three long poems rank with T. S. Eliots Four Quartets and Ezra Pounds Pisan Cantos. The first book of the Trilogy, published in the midst of the "fifty thousand...

A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance-while their authors awaited...

Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004, Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement Ireland. At the book's centre are delicately inward...

Pure Filth, Aidan Mathews' fifth volume of poetry, follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen, 1977), Minding Ruth (Gallery, 1983), According to the Small Hours (Cape, 1998) and Strictly No Poetry (Lilliput, 2017). At its heart, the collection is about reflections...

A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems...

When it comes to those we love, even our most yearned-for states of union are subject to change. afterlove endures the swarming devastations of loss as consummately as it enters love's raptures, ever alive to devotion's flow and ebb. From domestic paean...

The work of German poet Frederich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and...

Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume...

Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724200Author Yvonne ReddickPage Count 28Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator...

Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than...

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354743Author Ryan AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604332377Author Charles SantoreFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Applesauce PressPublisher Sterling Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 624g

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...