Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735457Author Porsha OFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan government officially announced the end of a civil war that had been ravaging the island for almost three decades. During all these years, Tamil poets have commented on the war and its vicissitudes in what constitutes an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170857Author Mark StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829628Author Ronan O'FlahertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions...

This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996523141Author Alfred K LamotteFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Saint Julian Press, Inc.Publisher Saint Julian Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711985Author Anthony HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt and forgotten ritual. For this reason, Jahan Ramazani argues, the elegy, one of the most...

This modern spiritual classic is a touching and human portrait of the woman who was the mother of Christ, drawn with reverence and dignity-a narrative poem of special distinctiveness, universal in its appeal, and written in fluent verse of exceptionally...

David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English. His poetry stands outside the current literary climate, and like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, it is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Its mood is...

Forged on the fields of a 1970s council estate and telling a story 55 years in the making, these beautifully crafted poems take you on an unflinching journey. Spanning five decades and crossing three continents, Anthony Brough's debut collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598913Author John McCulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457539Author Andrew RidgwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The Covid pandemic: an extraordinary time for everyone. The first lockdown of 2020 brought the world to a halt. For some, it meant a time to get closer to family. For others, the nightmare of domestic abuse. Israeli artist Tali Neeman Sabo and British...

Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century', TLS - is all the more impressive for his...

A book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. Porcelain is a book-length cycle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804393109Author Riley HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264417Author Karel Jaromir ErbenFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressDimensions(mm) 190mm * 145mm *...

'No problem here pal. None at all.' In the early hours of the morning, thirty-one-year-old Sheku Bayoh set out to walk home from his friend's place after watching a boxing match. Just hours later, he had lost his life in police custody. Lament for...

The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists. In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995496019Author Shams-Ud-Din Muhammad Hafez- ShiraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837940790Author Elisha HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114310Author EVA SalzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Wales Book of the Year 2018. Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. The opening poem sequence, 'Diary of the Last Man', sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth,...

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s. Many of the...

Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022. Shortlisted for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Second Collections 2023. 'Have you looked / have you looked deeply?' ask these poems, rooted in the human body and its movement through an interconnected living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376059Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint 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 9781101911204Author Robin Coste LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Nigel Planer has been writing poetry for over fifty years. Now he has corralled many of his poems into one volume, Making Other Plans - as in 'poetry is what happens when you're busy making other plans.' This collection forms a poetic memoir, richly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529611Author PetrachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 396g

'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap' Ever since Lewis Carroll's nonsense epic appeared in 1876 readers have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692079850Author Neal SehgalFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Neal SehgalPublisher Neal SehgalWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

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A Silence You Can Carry stands as a searing debut collection from a startlingly brave new talent.The delicate and almost effortless poetry of Hibaq Osman blends everyday objects and movements into monumental invocations. The collection is filled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907401138Author Patrick B. OsadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606044Author Emma MustFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Delightful poetry that everyone can enjoy. Life is like a simple piece of music that we gradually turn into an orchestral symphony as we add experience to our lives. Take inspiration from the world... there is so much to see, do and learn! These often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732816909Author Dally LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337366Author Laura KasischkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 127mm *...