Poetry

'McLane is a Romantic poet out of time' Ange Mlinko'Passionate, erudite, sensuous . . . McLane probes the minutest currents of human feeling' Sarah Howe'My favourite living poet . . . [her work] bristles with life, feeling, argument' Parul SeghalThe...

The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon. David Mankin's introduction and...

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.Conjuring vivid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584992Author Franny ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906309121Author Iain SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Pighog PressPublisher PighogWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 160mm * 9mm

Using the works of Dante as its critical focus, Maria Rosa Menocal's original and imaginative study examines questions of truth, ideology, and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time...

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...

In an illustrious career, David Harsent has published eight collections of poetry, from A Violent County in 1969, to Legion, winner of the Forward Prize in 2005. This selection, made by the author himself, draws upon the full arc of his career and offers...

A royal education.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590108Author Jaan KaplinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

The poems in Near-Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees,...

Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab...

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert BurnsRobert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet of Scotland - and much of his work has become part of everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977371Author Gaspara StampaFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596759Author Dean RaderFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612618630Author Regina WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692302972Author Brian Sewell (The Native)Format PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Blaqrayn Publishing PlusPublisher Blaqrayn Publishing PlusWeight(grams)...

In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374260798Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939660216Author Camille Hamilton Adams HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Sweet Lady PressPublisher Sweet Lady PressWeight(grams) 195g

Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America's most cherished poets-celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct...

Over the last 15 years Keston Sutherland has gained the reputation of being at the forefront of the experimental movement in contemporary British poetry. This book collects all of his work into a single volume, including his recent "The Odes to TL61P."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905782Author Mohini GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Welsh Women's ClassicsPublisher Honno Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980704Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322376Author Sudesh MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 200g

The fifth collection from poet Blake Auden, To Drown as a Cure for Thirst, is a delicate exploration of grief and how it affects-and is affected by-time and memory. Written in the wake of a global pandemic, the book touches on themes including loss,...

In The Adjustments, Claire Dyer's fourth collection with Two Rivers Press, the poet explores the vagaries of time and experience. As a narrative in reverse, her book scrutinises the fine tunings of life - from what's expected to what happens - and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598494Author Di SlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work, including new poems that remind us of his prefatory statement: "Art is the chalice into which we pour the wine of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999674243Author David CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780005430Author Sir Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974566726Author AshfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bardic PressPublisher Bardic PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177754Author Hiroaki SatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)...

On 26 April, 1986 at 1.23 am, in the cool dark of an early Saturday, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear complex exploded. "Heavy Water" is based on eyewitness accounts of the Chernobyl disaster. Petrucci takes up the challenge confronting...

This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140586954Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 138mm *...

Written by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, A Season in Hell has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century.Book InformationISBN 9780195017601Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246367Author Robert RendallFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers LimitedDimensions(mm)...