Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905584Author Katherine StansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno Ltd

In Poppy, Joseph Minden explores how the totems of remembering are always, also, sites of suppression. The poems in this debut collection take in a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme, an ill-fated visit to Penang, rumours of the...

The Spirit of the Hebrides combines the poetry of Kenneth Steven with the photography of Alastair Jackson and features images of Skye and Raasay in homage to one of Scotland's leading 20th century poets, Sorley McLean. The Spirit of the Hebrides...

Winner of the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry "From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present." Boston Globe After his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926960Author Denis JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

November is Sean O'Brien's first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the...

Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she was called a 'one-woman festival'. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972069Author Heather LanierFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840123Author Alisa A GarzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Barry MacSweeney's last book, The Book of Demons, recorded his fierce fight against alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life - though only for three more years. When he died in 2000, he had just assembled a retrospective of...

This moving collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608685295Author Roger HousdenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

History shows how Catalan culture has overcome critical situations far more adverse than the present. The Catalan language has not been replaced and this anthology contains four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan, who, although they lived through...

These poems explore the distance between the head and the heart-and all of the pain, beauty, and hope in between.This book is one woman's account of her longing to know herself fully. Her mind, body, and soul. This book might make you cry, fill you with...

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. His ninth Bloodaxe collection, Border Zone, explores a far-reaching canvas of British/Caribbean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932887259Author David WhyteFormat PaperbackImprint Many Rivers PressPublisher Many Rivers PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839406614Author W B YeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809985Author R. H. BlythFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from...

Why Brownlee Left, a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, confirmed Paul Muldoon's reputation as the most inventive voice of his generation when it was first published in 1980. The key figure in the poet's third...

Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598616Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Checkmate! has all the excitement a chess fan could want, from world champions, to history's most famous matches, to the role of chess in society. This volume begins by retracing the history of chess through 16 players who have been officially recognised...

What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world of the web we experience it in new ways, its...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322037Author J Iron WordFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monarch Publishing, LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

A Publishers Weekly and New York Times Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2023. Monica Youn's first UK collection is her fourth and most ambitious book. It ends with prose, or at least with paragraphs, the long...

An anthem for the modern woman, Unfollowing You will serve as a true companion for those who seek a voice that explores the complexities and hilarity of contemporary romance. Komal Kapoor uses her personal experience and astute social awareness as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974386Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645349900Author S HukrFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices-in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in...

'Look -- here's a poet of ferocious invention, a breathtaking wit that ushers us to epiphanies of grief and laughter, an encyclopaedic knowledge of hip ephemera that's never merely knowing, and a playful ear -- which is, I note, an anagram of Paul Farley...

This volume includes Gurney's early small volumes of verse, "Severn and Somme" (1917) and "War's Embers" (1919).Book InformationISBN 9781857543483Author Ivor GurneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Fyfield BooksPublisher Carcanet Press Ltd

High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire epidemic, Naffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and...

A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends...

Other Ways to Leave the Room features the work of three of the most beloved and lauded poets currently at large. Between them, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Nick Laird write lyrical, luminous and often darkly witty poems about the rugged wildness of...

Winner of the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a `rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills, excrements of authors,...

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on...

The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling 'Curtain Call', often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations. Some respond to fragments of the past, personal and...