Poetry

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114860Author Dannie AbseFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 135g

At last, just in time for his 99th birthday, a powerful overview of one of America's most beloved poets: New Directions is proud to present a swift, terrific chronological selection of Ferlinghetti's poems, spanning more than six decades of work and...

A debut collection exploring the experience of first love and heartbreak through poetry, from actress and artist Bella Mayo.My Greenhouse is a collection of poems inspired by the author's first romance, beginning with the seeds of infatuation, blooming...

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' (The Times). I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection...

This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned works, such as 'Connecting Cultures',...

Beautiful hardcover edition of the beloved Ferlinghetti collection restored to the original version as it was originally conceived 60th anniversary of book's publication Ferlinghetti's travel journals, Writing Across the Landscape: Travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911584650Author Mari LovgreenFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Cyhoeddiadau BarddasPublisher Cyhoeddiadau Barddas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739190200Author Najiba MracadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Najiba KeanePublisher Najiba KeaneWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030731Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Katrina Porteous has been living and working alongside the fishermen of the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the place and its people. Her first collection also includes...

The world's greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major poets are traditionally rendered into prose. In this pioneering volume, Willis Barnstone's translations restore the lyricism and power of the poets' voices in both the New and the Old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993737084Author Scarlett EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Edwards PublishingPublisher Edwards PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist in society and the...

Winner of A Somerset Maugham Award 2023. Winner of An Eric Gregory Award 2023. Winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023. By reimagining episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Jay...

Kit Fan's As Slow As Possible is a book of changes, of unlikely bridges between far-flung places and times, a collection of shape-shifting, trans-migrant poems that travel across geographies and time zones. There are poems about the slow life of trees...

"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them--"Ode to a...

The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland, The Celtic Twilight captures a wide range of stories,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911356059Author Sid ChaplinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Moth PublishingPublisher New Writing NorthWeight(grams) 900g

The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates"Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679747673Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 136mm...

Extra Illicit Sonnets chronicles a love affair between a man and a woman of different complexions, cultures, continents, and generations, Sonia Fuentes of Andorra and Luca Xifona of Canada. She is Spanish in heritage; and he is Maltese. She is a Boomer...

Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern-day William Blake. The Guardian described Terror, his first book, as 'visionary' and 'exciting', the New Statesman as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535612Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. It won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, for which the judges were W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Marianne Moore, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and it...

Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of...

Essays discuss disarmament, the European peace movement, authoritarian governments, the media, national defense, and U.S.-Soviet relations.Book InformationISBN 9780850363296Author E.P. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint The Merlin Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031141Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004674Author Eva H.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Bone and Marrow/Cnamh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern is the most inclusive and comprehensive anthology of Irish-language poetry to date. Impressive in its breadth and scholarly in its depth, this collection casts a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062315441Author Jorie GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595882Author Natalie ShaperoFormat PaperbackImprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement...

A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a "field of heaven...outside spacetime." Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176788Author A.K. RamanujanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 121gDimensions(mm)...

This powerful, unique collection contains poems written not only by members of Jewish communities in Europe (representing the largest group persecuted by the Nazis), but also poems by people who were targeted on other grounds. Some belonged to political...

Deborah Garrison's "The Second Child" is a book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and more frightening than ever before. It explores many facets of motherhood - ambivalence, trepidation and joy - coming to terms with the seismic shift...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985467982Author Gabriel RosenstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Poetry ChaikhanaPublisher Poetry ChaikhanaWeight(grams) 363g

In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant and revisits kitschy concepts like 'love' and 'illness', now...