Poetry

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917-93) was an industrious writer. He published over fifty books, thousands of essays and numerous drafts and fragments survive. He predicted many of the struggles and challenges of his own and the following century. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876761Author Sarah SalwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251881Author Pat BoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 262g

A perfect choice for young Bible readers, the NKJV Holy Bible for Kids includes numerous study helps with the trusted New King James translation to make Bible reading fun and accessible for kids!Kids will be proud to carry this easy-to-read edition of...

The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to HoraceBook InformationISBN 9780198144540Author R. O. A. M. LyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 20mm

Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179796Author J. H. PrynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 126gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586170301Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; and a young woman dreams of leaving home. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his...

In these 99 meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking-a pair of scissors, perhaps-is both a small, human victory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308943Author Kabir HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914232902Author NovalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322686Author Nicolas JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909362758Author Rakhi KohliFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Kingston University Press LtdPublisher Kingston University Press LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780802145215Author Kay RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher...

Following his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy's Prophecy dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and...

A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again. With Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, Mark Nepo brings us a compelling treasury of short prose reflections to turn to when...

The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and...

This second collection, a follow-up to Patrick Phillips' award-winning debut, navigates the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. Like Virgil's Aeneas, the book's central figure is in the middle time of life, a grown man with...

Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to promote diversity and quality in British poetry,...

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man-available for the first time in the United States "i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative." Billy-Ray Belcourt's...

Gwyneth Lewis was made National Poet of Wales in 2005, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She is a bilingual virtuoso, and has published six other books of poetry, three in each of her two languages. Chaotic Angels brings together the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902350080Author Paul Abdul Wadud SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Muslim Academic TrustPublisher Muslim Academic Trust

An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Also included are...

The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his...

These selections from the esteemed career of Gottfried Benn?one of the most significant German poets of the 20th century?showcase his early, shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, as well as the isolation and fragmentation of...

This book features original readings of Pound and Eliot from a major literary critic. In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what she calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. She convincingly shows...

Mae astudiaethau niferus wedi archwilio delweddaeth beirdd drwy ac mewn iaith, hynny yw, y modd y defnyddiant iaith i greu delweddau, ond nid felly'r ddelweddaeth am iaith ei hunan. Nod y llyfr hwn yw craffu ar sut y mae casgliad o feirdd o bob cwr o'r...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130723Author E. E. CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Avalon Travel PublishingPublisher Avalon Travel PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book-length poem is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 when thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced, with families later split between the two countries. Inspired by family history, Moniza...

Anne Stevenson (1933-2020) was a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881414332Author G SaintFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535186Author Eliza GriswoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735242Author Melissa Lozada-OlivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Hell, I Love Everybody: 52 Poems by James Tate re-introduces the poet, providing a poem for every week of the year, every mood and season. It includes work from his first publication, The Lost Pilot, a Yale Younger Poets selection (1967) and all his...

Carmina Burana, literally "Songs from Beuern," is named after the village where the manuscript was found. The songbook consists of nearly 250 poems, on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. Compiled in the thirteenth century...

Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century's best-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almost fifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, she received numerous awards, including the W.H. Smith Prize for her 1986...

Having experienced alcoholism and homelessness Seamus Fox came to understand the social and human injustices that result in so many people finding themselves living in the streets. This book is a collection of poems written from those stories,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950380510Author Kevin W PeeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Spartan PressPublisher Spartan PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...