Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512973Author Rose FylemanFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Bromley House EditionsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. "Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781714821709Author Siegfried BaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075040Author John GreeningFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730485Author Rachel BarenblatFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Dante Alighieri created poetry of unparalleled force and beauty that proved influential far beyond the borders of his native Italy and beyond his own time. This new collection brings together selections from a wide variety of English translations of...

Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107439Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482624Author Chloe HonumFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

In her striking debut, Laurie Ogden wrestles with what it means to define ourselves as human. From the seeming infinity of matryoshka dolls to Maud Wagner and Latrice Royale, Humaning moves through a storm of conflicting notions of womanhood, the body,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533281Author Eugenio MontaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 943gDimensions(mm)...

French poet Paul Verlaine was a major representative of the symbolist movement during the latter half of the 19th century. Norman Shapiro's translations seek to display Verlaine's ability to transform into verse the essence of everyday life and make...

An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook:...

Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his...

Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031153Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Hailed by some as the most important Scottish poet since Burns, Hamish Henderson lived an epic life against the backdrop of some of the defining social, political and cultural battles - both national and international - of the twentieth century. A...

From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject. Jon Stallworthy has here selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and...

Poems dealing with the soiled aspect of the human condition and the sumptuous appeal of the tactile are presented in Spanish and English.Book InformationISBN 9780802130358Author Pablo NerudaFormat HardbackPage Count 431Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic...

Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple translation of...

'Talisman for the Soul' is an immersive and illuminating collection that expresses a powerful intensity of emotion, exploring overarching themes of human interaction, as well as the human need to transform and adapt as individuals. Written by a poet...

War & Paracetamol (or The Bic is Back) is an omnibus volume of poems comprising The Cancer Collection and The F***ing Scary Covid Diaries. An epic journey through viral mayhem.About the AuthorBob Goody is an actor (RADA trained), writer and performance...

Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's...

Greekling,the much-anticipated debut poetry collection by Kostya Tsolakis, celebrates and commemorates damaged and rejected Greek bodies, be they of flesh and blood, made of marble, or natural bodies. In intertwining Greek culture, history and poetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035801107Author Tracy FitzgibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692148587Author Kevin Tyler NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Kevin Tyler NormanPublisher Kevin Tyler NormanWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Sophie Hannah's sharp pen dissects modern life and relationships with insouciant honesty and ruthless wit, and her love poems evoke timeless feelings with a shrewd simplicity that deepens her range. An edge of desolation, tenderness - an occasional flash...

"[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers."-American Scholar"Momaday's poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic." - Library Journal (starred review)From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399927284Author Lady BruniereFormat HardbackPage Count 42Imprint Lady Bruniere DesignPublisher Lady Bruniere DesignWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Poetry) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9781880238882Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher...

"Memories like autumn leaves blow across my path, seeking refuge in their own dark space" Solitary, beautiful, lyrical - Julie Wiltshire weaves a tapestry of loss, grief and redemption in the Cotswold landscape. Original poetry in a stunning new...

"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance." -Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary SupplementAbout the AuthorJulie Scott...

Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer.The first volume of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902382609Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 95g

A previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly...

The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the foremost Caribbean writers of the 20th century. Twice imprisoned by the colonial government of British Guiana during the Emergency in the 1950s, he became a minister in Guyana's first independent...

Whether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. Paralleling similar movements in art and music, their intensely personal poetry leans more heavily on oblique suggestions and evocation than on overt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982117887Author Elvira SastreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 130mm * 15mm

"I see the hut, its weathered state a focus for an artist's eye; worn and brown amid white-gold sand, a shape to break blue sea and sky ..." Cumbria, Spain, Devon and France - a beautiful poetry collection written on location. Hilda Cochrane sets...

A poetic call for mindfulness, creativity, and analog real-world connection in an increasingly disconnected world from singer-songwriter Valerie June.Maps for the Modern World is a collection of poems and original illustrations about cultivating...