Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136804Author Robyn SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there. At either end...

Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, are represented in this stunning new...

From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself. This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America's most celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920143220Author Gary AlbynFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint 30 Degrees South PublishersPublisher 30 Degrees South PublishersWeight(grams) 1210g

Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955728563Author Francis PongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve" has claims to being the first great poem of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196333Author Jonathan DavidsonFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769642003Author Jacinth HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Brown Bird PublishingPublisher Brown Bird PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538279Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

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...

The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets.The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals-a poetic form of rhyming couplets-in a distinctive Indian style...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251027Author Doireann Ni GhriofaFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 115g

This concise guide to naval history and naval records is essential reading and reference for anyone researching the fascinating story of Britain's Navy and the men and women who served in it. Whether you are interested in the career of an individual...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic...

'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...'This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and magic.Introducing Little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430379Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this...

Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The texts of eleven complete, authoritative romances-four new to the Second Edition: Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, Of Kyng Robert of Cisyle, Hou Pride dude Him Begyle, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Athelston, The Awntyrs off...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589290Author Phillis LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A love letter to horror films where poems are the paragraphs. Featuring hilarious and chilling persona poems about iconic horror films with accompanying art by Joel Amat Guell.TOCAlienAmerican PsychoA Nightmare on Elm StreetA Serbian FilmAt Midnight I'll...

Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences,...

When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the...

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America had only two great wonders to show the world:...

After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic...

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844177172Author Nick FawcettImprint Kevin Mayhew LtdPublisher Kevin Mayhew Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995721753Author Joe SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint London BooksPublisher London Books

A The Telegraph Book of the Year. Joey Connolly's funny and feverish second collection, The Recycling, considers dissolution and aftermath. Poems experiment with forms and histories, grieving for estrangement and heartbreak, haunted by climate...

Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.Book InformationISBN 9780876854372Author Charles...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473622855Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Jessica UrlichsPublisher Jessica UrlichsWeight(grams) 354g

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer and encouraging clearance and eviction, is the best known change, but it was by no means the only one. ...

Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years. Though he has been hardly unproductive, the politics of his homeland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374645Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778308461Author Bunmi LaditanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 155mm * 15mm

Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at...