Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400982Author Gary DexterFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

However arresting, outlandish, or hilarious, the poems in Horoscopes for the Dead are typically prompted by the familiar things of the world: dogs, stars, food, love, and marriage as well as life's local triumphs and disappointments, joys and shames...

Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, 'doing more, in its range and ambition,' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, 'than any first collection I can think of in at least the last ten years.'...

S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356548Author Richard AddersonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

"If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry he had better shut up", says William Morris (1834-1896). He was a brilliant designer, a political thinker and one of the most popular poets of his day. While his designs are still prized,...

The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy's third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar - but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598982Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593085660Author Nikita GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved...

One of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators, Robert Durling's rendition of the third and final volume of Dante's masterful literary epic is now available in paperback. As with the two preceding volumes, Durling's precise and powerful...

Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the...

In this sparkling debut, Matthew Hollis immerses us in the undercurrents of our lives. Love and loss are buoyed by a house full of milk, an orchard underwater, the laws of walking on water. Rainwater, floodwater, flux - the liquid landscapes which shift...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565078Author Luke KennardFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only...

Ideal for children aged 6 - 12, this colour illustrated book explains the early life of Robert Burns and how he grew up to be Scotland's best known poet and lyricist. Suitable for schools and homework projects, this book explains his early life in...

A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374513054Author Randall JarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh's city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956082Author Christopher CarmonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)...

This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905826018Author Jennifer SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Taliesin TriviumPublisher Taliesin TriviumWeight(grams) 123gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196371Author Ian McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

A revered classic of 1970s New York conceptualism, Bernadette Mayer's Memory synthesizes writing and photography in this prescient "emotional science project" A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer...

Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a...

Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727348Author Taz RahmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 318mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692585955Author Laura FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Headmistress PressPublisher Headmistress PressWeight(grams) 159g

Edited by Lilias Fraser, Jane Cooper and Kate Hendry, To Learn the Future is a selection of poems that will grip at first reading - perfect if the only time you have is five minutes in a rushed lunch break. The choice of poems includes insight for days...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410206091Author John AranyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 122g

Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions-those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944769314Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993030604Author William AyotFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Sleeping Mountain PressPublisher Sleeping Mountain Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374638Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Roberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world. We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume. Mary Crow is a translator and former Colorado Poet...

Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531713Author Grace PaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the...

We all have our favourite demons. A desperate Romeo circles the bushes below Juliet's balcony, hoping for a glimpse of her bare body, 'nipples stiffening on powdered ribs'. Adamant of his own sanity, Hamlet chatters away to his oldest friend - the squat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501196812Author Madisen KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...