Poetry

Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in...

Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan",...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385498883Author Patti SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a...

Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922890078Author Sarah HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Poetry HallPublisher Poetry HallWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

The Collected Poems (Second Impression) of Jamaica's Poet Laureate (2017-2020) and winner of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a...

Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within you, waiting to be discovered after finding more of yourself.Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why, Samantha King Holmes's second solo poetry collection following her bestselling Born to Love, Cursed...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251843Author Patrick CotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 25g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398450400Author Barrington BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120353Author Michael RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 126g

Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her retrospective, New & Collected Poems, in 2010. Her poems...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal's first all-new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. Includes a Foreword by Tim Firth. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999797478Author Sophie HerxheimerFormat PaperbackImprint Henningham Family PressPublisher Henningham Family Press

What can we learn from this unique example of writing from a child experiencing severe abuse, rape and daily violence? What can we learn about how she coped with and understood what was happening to her? Jessica Eaton and Claire Paterson-Young work...

Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names. Edited by the number one bestselling author and poet Lemn Sissay...

Once the subject of a literary cult, American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was later rejected by liberal taste and by the academic establishment. But in the last decade he has found a new audience. His indictments of the modern world are...

The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. With a freshness that belie...

Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018916Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped...

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told...

Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus,...

Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for PoetryShortlisted The Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2021Heartbreaking detail permeates Hardisty's deftly musical debut. These are love poems, conjuring relationships just beginning, gone...

This collection of poems rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotland describes a traditionally lawless area whose inhabitants owed allegiance first to kin and laird and then to the authorities in London or Edinburgh...

A Painted Field - Robin Robertson's first collection - was published in 1997 to unanimous acclaim. In language both sensuous and coolly forthright, the poems in Slow Air describe the arc of loss, the search for grace, and the radiances and shadows of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690504Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 35mm

When she died, in 2009, Anthony Thwaite described U.A. Fanthorpe as a 'smiling subversive with a voice like bird-song'. An encouraging example to all late developers, this particular bird's voice took its time: she didn't become a poet until she was 45...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530952Author Allen TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 299g

Presents a combination of poems and photography that creates a fresh soundscape and vision of Glasgow and of a land far beyond its crowded streets. From the screech of buses to the crash of waves on a windswept Hebridean shore, this work features poems...

Five years after the death of Joseph Brodsky, the heir of the generation of Pasternak, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva and especially Akhmatova, this "Collected Poems in English" for the first time gathers all his translated and original poems in English. It...

Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596346Author Christopher SotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

"There's no point jangling if you don't hear the jingle." Gerry Potter, creator and destroyer of the infamous gingham diva Chloe Poems, welcomes you to his first collection of domestic/fantastic theatre-verse. Biographical, confessional and rich...

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. He moved to northern California in 1954 and taught in American universities until his death. His...

Love, sex, boats and friendship. And yet Jo Bell's second poetry collection, Kith, is about so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now.Delighting in...

Roger Robinson recently came to the attention of UK audiences in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten, hailed by Carol Ann Duffy as "a joyful and important moment in publishing".The Butterfly Hotel is his first full collection of poetry, a telling document of the...

Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's that of the child-murderer...

Fraternal strife.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war...