Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679429067Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035815340Author Leyla CeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034753Author Mr Maurice ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Frances Horovitz's poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156198202Author C P CavafyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco Press

Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his imagination and the virtuosity of his literary...

This selection of Blake's poetry is packaged in an attractive and collectible format and marketed at an attractive price for the customer. It is part of a series of poetry titles designed to be seen as a set.Book InformationISBN 9781912945047Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390601097Author Vincent BerquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Cyberwit.NetPublisher Cyberwit.NetWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Galway Kinnell was one of America's major modern poets. This new selection - drawing on eight collections from What a Kingdom It Was (1960) to Imperfect Thirst (1994) - updated his 1982 Selected Poems, which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National...

In The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea, poets ask how the human mind can fathom the ocean's depths. The sea emerges as at once strange and familiar, bearing witness to storms, naval history, ocean creatures and the human desire for freedom. As the poets...

What do you do when you are a god - but powerless and unable to prevent one of your favourite species from their insatiable, accelerating death wish? Do you try to shout louder and more insistently, or instead reinvent yourself as a troubadour of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808365Author Upton SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 908Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than...

Anthony Hecht described Donald Justice as 'among other things, the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.' This memorial volume of his complete poetry testifies to his subtle and enduring brilliance. With painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance he...

Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful...

"Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns in cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood,...

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned...

Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes - up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range...

Collected here are selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene. Smith's work evokes the experimentation and the desire to break boundaries of those pre-punk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951874025Author Gloria AnzalduaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

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Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry--from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor--offers a challenge no translator has accepted...

In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of her third poetry collection. Through rivers, rain, wildlife...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903080092Author Lavinia GreenlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPublisher Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to their...

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068786Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211762Author Roque DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787375659Author Edmund SpenserFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Shadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913675318Author Gill PakesFormat PaperbackImprint Honeybee BooksPublisher Honeybee Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930950Author Wilson OryemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Wilson OryemaPublisher Wilson Oryema

Poetry can be fun -- especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history - from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709432Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590474Author Sandor CsooriFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789670957159Author Abdussalam PuthigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Other Press Sdn. Bhd.Publisher Other Press Sdn. Bhd.Weight(grams)...

A greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent). Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in...

By turns sensual and incantatory, "Common Prayer" offers a liturgy for a world in crisis. Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. Challenging and...