Poetry

In this acclaimed book, Professor Ricks argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, Keats was especially sensitive to,...

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Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and hummingbirds as well as the sparrows of the title...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560009Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

In this inventive work on Emily Dickinson's poetry, Cristanne Miller traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style, finding them in sources as different as the New Testament and the daily patterns of...

Written over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in new, crystal-clear light.Early access copiesPromotion: BookExpo America, AWPTargeted bookseller mailingNational print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627171Author John FogginFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This comprehensive retrospective of his work covers poetry from over a...

Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect), one of two key journals which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196401Author Wendy PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

The poems in Clare Pollard's fifth collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793804Author Khadijah QueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376509Author Arthu RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and celebrates living, fired by his belief that there is no...

Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his...

WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frasheri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it . . . A joy to read' W...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Pigott Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Roehampton Poetry Prize. Featured in the TLS & Irish Times Books of the Year 2018. Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723210Author Caroline SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 113g

One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970020878Author The Poetry PosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Inner Child Press, Ltd.Publisher Inner Child Press, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596797Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by scholar-poet Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an...

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation following transplant surgery that he wrote the poems for this new collection - the first since I Knew the...

On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399903578Author Annie MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint MoorwellbeingPublisher MoorwellbeingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats's first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923, and it is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century. The...

"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406309Author Alex WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783033075849Author VentumFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint VentumPublisher VentumWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963818331Author Muriel RukeyserFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Paris Press IncorporatedPublisher Paris Press Incorporated

For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot a course from island to island. Instead it groups...

In the grand, narrative tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks and Edward Sanders, this riveting collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives voice to the growing crisis faced in communities across...

Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the 'earthly Muses' whose poetic skills rivalled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536817Author Christopher LogueFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910669471Author Kerrie O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 80g

Nascent is a new poetry anthology from Out-Spoken Press showcasing four young, up and coming BAME poets. The book features poems by Jess Rahman-Gonzalez, Mukahang Limbu, Tice Cin, and Maria-Sophia Christodoulou. The editors aimed to highlight young...

Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of...

The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith's first collection Alarum exists in the space between the peculiar thought and its dismissal. It is a place in which commonsense is unfixed, where the imagination disrupts notions of stability...

Though John Glenday has long been admired for his lyrically delicate and emotionally powerful poetry, he has remained something of a well-kept secret. His third collection, Grain, makes his singular talent available to a wider audience. Sometimes...

"Stray" is a book about strays - human and animal - and about straying. It's about the lost and being lost, searching for home, and it's about the extraordinary places we sometimes discover when we're off the beaten track, deliberately or accidentally...