Poetry

Coal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." Marilyn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260328Author Tope OmoniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377308Author Zuzanna GinczankaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400616Author Gary DexterFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Richard Murphy (1927-2018) was one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished' clarity. He emerged in the 1950s with John Montague...

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...

Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis, many for the first time. These poems come from diverse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912344Author Cristin O'Keefe AptowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther...

Jenna Clake's Museum of Ice Cream is part simulation, part internal monologue, part attempt to reach out. An uncanny examination of objects, scenes, and flavours, these poems explore how food can connect and divide, can feel isolating and terrifying:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998929316Author Jeffery BeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Kin PressPublisher Kin PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681884Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181596Author Adam NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927201Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the 'pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing'. Into this pause, Owen...

White/ Other is a strange hybrid beast - part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti - a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working-class "other"...

If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are two of the best-loved poets from the heroic lost generation of the...

This extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486436500Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackImprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 200g

It includes selections from the 1830, 1832, and 1842 volumes, together with songs from The Princess and In Memoriam; complete poems from the middle period, including Maud, Enoch Arden, and nine Idylls of the King, including the Dedication; and a generous...

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 9781781721162Author Kathryn SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First Collection 2017. Raking Light is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840132458Author Clare GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Grange Books LtdPublisher Grange Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912726554Author Richard VenableFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Instant ApostlePublisher Instant Apostle

C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her...

Ellen Hinsey's new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It explores the enduring potential for human beings to set neighbour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939574183Author Chelsea WoodardFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Measure Press Inc.Publisher Measure Press Inc.Weight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

One of the UK's most exciting up-and-coming hip-hop artists, Scroobius Pip is a master of the spoken word lyric. From his childhood musings in the school playground to his feelings on the rat race, Pip has selected from his online fan collective artistic...

Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel-Child, an `exceptional volume ... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917005Author Imogen StirlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917227Author Ty'rone HaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press