Poetry

The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections-"The Shutters" and "Photograms"-by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436149Author Cherie Taylor BattisteFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 9mm

The hero's journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic...

Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award. Contains the poem 'Joy' - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection, Joy, features the poem of that title which received the 2016...

A collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality.Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598623Author John GreeningFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Tony Hoagland's poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less sceptical,...

Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it also supplies an illuminating introduction, and succinctly...

Brazil's foremost twentieth-century poet, in Penguin Classics for the first timeIn 1962 de Andrade published Antologia Poetica, a personal anthology of poems from his first ten books. This selection draws on de Andrade's anthology to encompass his finest...

A powerful collection from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud. Hiddensee represents Annie Freud's most ambitious work to date, not least because it is a book about ambition and its necessity, the need to go beyond oneself, and to do what one...

A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the "meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's Book of Hours and the verses of Sufi mysticism." She writes: "Reality is...

Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such...

Passionfood is a feast of classic and contemporary love poems. There are a hundred flavours in this four-course celebration of love, passion and desire. Compiled by Staying Alive editor Neil Astley, its menu is distinctively different from that of other...

Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe's Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish emigre card magician Chan Canasta. It is also a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131700Author sam saxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a 'rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the US' (New Yorker) Owed is a book with celebration at its centre. Its primary concern is how we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598722Author Ana SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child's birth, and from Frank O'Connor's comes a hilarious tale...

Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction. Here, beginnings end and endings begin, as we leap across time and space and encounter the inter-connected nature of...

In his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist.Taking its name from the term for a female spy, Speculatrix...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800749962Author Paul BusbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063008427Author Kate BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm...

In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. In Farm by the Shore, Thomas A Clark continues his investigations into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His brief notations and fragments embody the...

This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god, death, love, and literature, they are also just as much...

Rachael Boast's first collection is dominated by astral influence and divine chance, by unseen or remote causes; but despite its celestial title, Sidereal is full of terrestrial concerns, the traffic and chaos of the human and natural worlds. Ultimately,...

As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914041Author Dean BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367681Author Mark PajakFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 65g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360388Author Stephen SondheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

The second in the ground-breaking mouthmark series, 13 Fairy Negro Tales is a vibrant pamphlet of contemporary poetry. In language scooped directly from a paintbrush, Inua Ellams announced his arrival on the poetry scene, with what has become a runaway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747457Author Maryam MafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598999Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Bower seeks to recover the lived experiences of women who have often appeared only fleetingly in official histories. This poetry pushes towards a more expansive understanding of 'motherhood', inclusive of broader urgent issues about gender and our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345421142Author Leslea NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598043Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm

In "Ice" Gillian Clarke turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. The poem "Polar" is the poet's point de repere, evoking...

A giant crane appears at the back windows of a residential street, its beam swinging freely, its red 'eye' seeming to overlook the lives on the other side of the glass. In her eighth collection of poems, Susan Wicks writes searchingly about our ordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930485358Author Mitsu SuzukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Rodmell PressPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947879485Author Cynthia PelayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Raw Dog Screaming PressPublisher Raw Dog Screaming PressWeight(grams)...