Poetry

In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by O'Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 and...

A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to...

Furniture, Lorraine Mariner's debut collection, was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize. Her poetry is sharp, quirky and skilful. Praise for Furniture: 'Pleasingly direct and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385094238Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it.This most intense of the riots of the USA's 'Red...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876198Author Jenny MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two cultures. As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination - shaped by books, art,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915533104Author R.M FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm

This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and the people left behind. The main narrative describes the deterioration of a long-term...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671039776Author WilliamsFormat PaperbackImprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster AustraliaWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm) 175mm *...

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.Book InformationISBN...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390310Author Philippe JaccottetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781737277521Author John KeeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Song CavePublisher Song...

In Lautreamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautreamont and Sade, these unique figures in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592294Author Gregory OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881943105Author Gavin Geoffrey DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Daedalus,U.S.Publisher Daedalus,U.S.Weight(grams) 510g

Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkAma Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a...

Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943977277Author Kaveh AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCPublisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon comes The Carrying-her most powerful collection yet.Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957182929Author Bill LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Greenheart PressPublisher Greenheart PressWeight(grams) 190g

Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal...

A fully annotated, bilingual edition, "Calligrammes" is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire - Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960954Author Gloria Anzald aFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute BooksWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In this stunningly inventive collection-a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry-Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her...

Jessica Mookherjee, highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prizes, presents her second collection of poems, Tigress. Mixing myth, magic and migration, these poems explore the impact of choice upon our lives and concentrate their magnificent, kaleidoscopic...

Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers-perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alikeAmerican Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140422900Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 142mm *...

**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801538Author Sam HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Carolyn Forche's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war. Documenting killings and other brutal human rights abuses, while working alongside...

Alain-Fournier's poems, while relatively few, are one of the small pearls washed up in the maelstrom of early twentieth-century France. Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a posthumous classic, Alain-Fournier was killed in battle in 1914. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804393918Author Chiara KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596520Author Erin BelieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Su Dong-po is recognized as one of the main Chinese poets of the Sung Dynasty and this bilingual collection contains work never previously translated.Book InformationISBN 9781945680274Author Su Dong-PoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint White Pine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800749016Author Rebecca Topham-RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers