Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630888Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after initial reading. The book received the 2013...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639244Author Gary BrindleFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 423gDimensions(mm) 295mm...

From social and political issues, Amazon reviews and reflections on life's everyday moments, I Like Your Hat is Magi Gibson's latest poetry collection. Gibson's fresh, evocative (and sometimes provocative) writing is both modern and timeless. She draw...

Armenia's most significant contemporary poet, Razmik Davoyan is one of a handful of names in Armenian literature which define not only an era, but go much further to embody an entire history. Davoyan's work reflects the experiences of an old nation, yet...

Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality - nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting - has appealed to a far wider audience than that of literary specialists, while also winning the respect of...

'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, author of Red Clocks'The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work but it reads like an intimate gift' Kaveh...

Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken"A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple...

Where Richard Skinner's previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound. A white noise machine is a device that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585300Author Paul BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908259Author Karl KirchweyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Penelope Shuttle is one of Britain's leading poets. This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows both her consistency of voice and her energised openness to language and to life. Adventurous, searching,...

Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization between the two World Wars.A striking edition of this modernist masterpiece, published to coincide with the fiftieth...

Many kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent war horses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's Aeneid, only to see it...

The anticipation of Christmas and the excitement of Advent bring out the cook in everyone, whether you're making nibbles to serve with drinks for friends, planning your holiday season menu or baking heartfelt gifts for loved ones. From panettone and jam...

"As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. . . ...

This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.About the AuthorMoya Cannon is an...

This collection contains more than 80% of the sonnets, including all the famous ones. In addition, there are substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth, songs from the plays, and celebrated soliloquies from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892553617Author Thomas HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481589Author Michael Deegan McGurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

In this collection of captivating and striking poems, the acclaimed writer Eugene Peterson explores the unexpected nature of the kingdom of God, its reversals and surprises. Arising out of his vocation as a pastor, these poems invite a radical renewal of...

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618154456Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 159mm * 14mm

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...

The work of an original, haunting and experimental woman modernist poet is made available again, for the first in 50 years. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in wartime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957776Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340744Author Taylor MaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 170g

The Taliban are synonymous with the war in Afghanistan. Doughty, uncompromising fighters, they plant IEDs, deploy suicide bombers and wage guerrilla warfare. While much has been written about their military tactics, media strategy and harsh treatment of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040638Author Tommy PicoPage Count 88Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414483Author Anatoly KudryavitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595608Author Monica SokFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to produce poems that range from the blackly comic to the surreal, from the nonsensical to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532647673Author Richard A PhippsFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373362Author Vasko PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early...

First selection of Andrew Young's best-known short poems and the long mystical poem Into Hades. The volume is illustrated by Joan Hassalal's powerful wood-engravings.Book InformationISBN 9781857543926Author Andrew YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996157087Author Sergei YeseninFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Sensitive Skin BooksPublisher Sensitive Skin BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstanding debut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251393Author Doireann Ni GhriofaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Rosie Garland's dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the "distance between things that stand like sisters". We venture...