Poetry

The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading...

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen. They move with and within the beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270517Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)...

An exquisite collection of new and selected verse. The existential poetry of Chris Tutton is imbued with an uncommon sensitivity. In this, his eighth collection, familiar notions of love, loss, identity, communication, vulnerability, language and truth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735965307Author Jessica F KantrowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Jessica KantrowitzPublisher Jessica KantrowitzWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

Carolyn Forche's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war. Documenting killings and other brutal human rights abuses, while working alongside...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771313421Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Brick BooksPublisher Brick BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 141mm * 7mm

These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout. In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes...

Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140440928Author Brian StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

When August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, the judges' citation referred to his work as 'ferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers'. They might also...

One of the Evening Standard's Best Non-fiction 2021.'We knew that black and brown bodies, working class voices, women's voices, did not have a space where they could be heard - and so this writing collective was a necessary and political act' In the...

The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the...

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...

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped...

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...

Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024. A The Telegraph Book of the Year. The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month August 2023. The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient...

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 9781907598807Author Helena NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907401251Author Vivien JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876792Author Anna BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Bring the mysterious and magical world of Emily Dickinson into your home by making the comforting foods that Emily loved to cook. Whether you are a fan of the hit television series Dickinson or have long been inspired by Emily Dickinson's poems, this...

Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848979901Author Stephen DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it-in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598791Author Alison BrackenburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These...

A personal book about love, loss, nature, depression and recovery, Greta Bellamacina's Who Will Make The Fire employs elemental metaphors - of wind, of dawn, of trees and fire - to explore the interior world of its author. This beautiful...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying...

Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. At last, we have the long-awaited English translation of his celebrated work "L'Arriere-Pays", which takes us to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060752514Author Distinguished Writer Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's...

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. The citation declares, 'his lyrical poetry with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time'. Jack Bevan's authoritative translation of Quasimodo...

Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase...

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his...

No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short...

Passionate and affirming, the poems in 'Love Leans over the Table' have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle...