Poetry

Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize In her award-winning debut collection Kaycee Hill frankly explores coming of age as a woman - and the intricacies of connection and memory - against an urban-pastoral landscape. Raging with vivid, smoky lyricism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598814Author Di SlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the...

Caleb Parkin's debut poetry collection, This Fruiting Body, plunges us into octopus raves and Sega Megadrive oceans, in the company of Saab hermit crabs and ASDA pride gnomes. It's a playful invitation to a queer ecopoetics that permeates our bodies and...

"Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I loved her work then and now."--Eileen Myles Thirty-five years' worth of poems by Susie Timmons, a poet beloved by her peers, previously only available in small-run editions. Her poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002155Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 154mm * 119mm *...

Full of playful glitches and malfunctions, this debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's New Poetries series and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review is a poetry of misses and near-misses, distortions and uncertainties. The poems capture a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528553Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387213Author R H BlythFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914345203Author Derek RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250892713Author Sophie DienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883642389Author Karen McCoskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth PressWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems-following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage-that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams...

In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that don't even exist-and then they do.In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789146448Author Peter DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 165g

Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in...

Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite's bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the major seasons of the Christian year. It includes: * The Call to Prayer (with poetry on the nature of prayer); *...

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 *...

The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371262Author John GalsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In this new and third edition, the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition have been incorporated in the main text. Some further discoveries have been included, and reference has been made to the results of recent research on...

Ink Tales reinvigorates fairy tales and myths from around the world, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout. Illustrated by Inkquisitive (Amandeep Singh) in his vibrant signature Indian inks, each story is accessible and visually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922558865Author Jacob RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Yogh & Thorn PressPublisher Yogh & Thorn PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528960Author Yevgeny Aleksandrovich YevtushenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet, author of Dirty Pretty Things, a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's whimsical and often erotic writing...

Living by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane - an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close...

The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of...

After the success of Grain (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, poetry's most prestigious international award) John Glenday returns with The Golden Mean.Glenday's poetry - once something of a closely guarded secret - now has many devotees, and this...

This is a magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic. Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His "Civil War" portrays two of the most colourful and powerful figures of the age -...

A blacksmith creates a girl from fire. A hedgehog conquers a kingdom. How do you ride a Camargue horse through time? How do circus people live, when the glitterball has stopped turning? In these poem-stories David Morley reinvents the oral tradition of...

A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213447Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177303Author Najwan DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

From rising Australian poet Chloe Frayne comes her newest poetry collection, The Gravity Inside Us.Gathering inspiration from a life of travel, hope, long-distance relationships, healing, and adventure, Frayne invites readers into her world. The Gravity...

Notes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed and illuminating voyage of dislocation and longing. By turns evocative, unsettling, and full of 'small acts of magic', Mookherjee simultaneously finds the...

What is a city for? How long do the vibrations persist from an economic shock wave, or a guitar chord? Is anything really permanent? The 'meanwhile site' is a place where change becomes a design feature, and Pete Green's remarkable debut collection...

As a child, Nick Mahoka fled Idi Amin's Uganda, and the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Amin. In political terms the poems chart the impact of imperialism and neo-colonialism that lay...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913196035Author Crispin BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Partus PressPublisher Partus Press