Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340003Author Rachel WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

A delightful anthology of poems sent by many contemporary writers as Christmas cards. From Advent to the New Year, these poems encompass the nativity, the natural world, weather and time's passing, religious and secular celebrations at home and abroad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787377264Author James Elroy FleckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

How do firms adapt? There are two basic starting points from which to answer that question. One is premised on ideas of rational choice and intentionality, while the other is a process of evolutionary dynamics. Both are well-defined and operate as...

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156391252Author Carl SandburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

This debut collection of poems by former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane explores love, loss, adoption and identity in powerful, precise and emotionally-charged poetry. From bereavement comes forth a life story in poems; the journey of sons,...

How You Might Know Me is a poetic exploration of four women s lives, connected through their experience in different areas of the UK s growing sex industry. Written following years of workshops and Sabrina s own experience of working in strip-clubs, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376011Author Elizabeth SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956488541Author Villayat "SnowMoon Wolf" SunkmanituFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint SnowMoon WolfPublisher SnowMoon WolfWeight(grams) 113g

Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with "Chant" as central to contemporary performative poetry. Here are...

Ovid's Ars Amatoria has met with astonishingly varied fortunes down the centuries. Ten years after publication the book became a reason, or more probably a pretext, for the author's banishment from Rome. It was removed from public libraries, and more...

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Recommendation. In Discipline, her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593468111Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711749Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 913g

When Otto Ecroyd embarked on a voyage to sail a broken boat from Norway to France - and failed - he decided to do what any other hapless adventurer would do: cycle from Alaska to Mexico. But, as Otto says, he 'had never ridden further than across town.'...

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the...

New work from an awardwinning poetJoanna Klink has won acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity. Of her most recent book, Raptus, Carolyn Forche has written that she is "a genuine poet, a born poet, and I am in awe of her achievement." The poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956814418Author Martin EspadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 105g

Winter Migrants opens with Tom Pickard's prize-winning sequence Lark & Merlin, an erotic pursuit over the hills and fells of the poet's Northern-English homeland. Stotting clough and gill in sneaping winds, leaping burns by backlit larches, waves of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998976655Author Sally KemptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Golden Dragonfly PressPublisher Golden Dragonfly PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780375701375Author Mark StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156957052Author Cleanth BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerriere. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerriere...

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love.Some appear...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Kullervo son of...

Stuff Dublin into your coat pocket. The perfect companion for a visit to the Fair City, or indeed to any inn, bar or cafe in Ireland. Some of the greatest writers in the English language were born in Dublin and every corner of the city has links with the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, there is depth at work where the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated,...

"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."--Eileen Myles "Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true subject of poetry. Only by engaging this body ...can...

Kei Miller's work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer Olive Senior as 'Some of the most exciting poetry I've read in years...An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace'. "A Light Song of Light" sings in the rhythms of ritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725108Author Deryn Rees-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406057Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 49gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578771052Author K a OppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Jackanapes PressPublisher Jackanapes PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi - and from the child in wartime Leicester to a 'fortune beyond any deserving / to be still here' in a London garden, eight decades later. 'Migrations', the book's opening poem,...

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the...

As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993319501Author Na'ima B. RobertFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sisters Awakening PressPublisher Sisters Awakening Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565221Author Jasmine GardosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Filigree typically refers to the finer elements of craftwork, the parts that are subtle; our 'Filigree' anthology contains work that plays with the possibilities that the word suggests, work that is delicate, that responds to the idea of edging, to a...

From the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of self.Through poetry and short essays, unfold shows...