Poetry

A beautiful, original and compelling invitation into the drama, wonder and mystery of the Christmas story. The warm rhythms and fresh directness of Mark Greene's poems are graced not only by illuminating design and gorgeous illustrations but by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377834Author Amelia RosselliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645600619Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

"Quite simply: these are seminal essays. . . . Distinguished scholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persian poetry." -Omar Pound"[This book] reads Arabic and Persian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way. ...

Kimiko Hahn, "a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury Review), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu-literally "running brush," which utilizes tactics such as juxtaposition, contradiction, and broad topical variety-in...

Winner Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Winter 2012. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic...

An extraordinary collection of sonnets composed while the poet was in solitary confinement and deprived of writing materials in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942, in a new prize-winning translation.Introduction by Alistair Elliotwith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914379Author Karen Downs-BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Clare Pollard wrote most of these poems while still at school in Bolton. Too young, perhaps, to expect anyone to take her seriously, but young enough to question that assumption and much else besides. Her poems are fresh and energetic, barbed with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Literary Award (Poetry in Translation) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781590171912Author Translated By Paul SchmidFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint NYRB...

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2023. In her first Carcanet collection, Lesley Harrison looks north to the sea, the heat of the land at her back. In inventive arrangements of sound and page, Harrison meditates on whale hunts, lost children,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957182905Author Bill LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Greenheart PressPublisher Greenheart PressWeight(grams) 141g

These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their...

In her latest book, New Life, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozicevic writes, "For my birthday I want a cake/revealing the color of my soul." Never saccharine, these poems are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all-surprising...

Growing up on the Isle of Lewis, Iain Crichton Smith spoke only Gaelic until he was five. But at school in Bayble and then Stornoway, everything had to be in English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture is divided: two languages, two...

In 'The Hoop', his first book of poems, John Burnside takes his bearings from Celtic mythology and from landscape, especially that of Gloucestershire. 'The things that contribute to how I work are botanical texts and drawings, fairy stories, Celtic and...

The Roman book of days.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the...

Almost a library in one volume, this unusual book, written by an accomplished poet, examines the 4000 year old phenomenon of poetry. It explains the underlying power of this art form and how its effect is exerted over human hearts and understanding...

A mosaic of lyrical vignettes, at once deeply personal and political, set against the turbulent backdrop of Arab/Western relations. Adnan writes, "Contrary to what is usually believed, it is not general ideas and grandiose unfolding of great events that...

Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents...

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997416435Author Jeanette LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Jeanette LeBlancPublisher Jeanette LeBlancWeight(grams) 254g

In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of...

This is the first collection of Scots poetry devoted entirely to football. It includes many of 20th century Scotland's best known poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith and Jackie Kay. Spanning centuries and a wide variety of...

In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought "the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Her first book, the highly original postmodern text Dictee, is now an...

Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have entertained us for more than half a century and his...

Includes poems set by AQA, OCR, WJEC and Edexcel at A-level Age 16+ Recommended on BBC 4's A Good Read.Book InformationISBN 9780435150778Author Robert GittingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629210Author David NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for...

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far - art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913248024Author Ana Sophia Sawaya HeinlFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint ThinkaeonPublisher Thinkaeon

What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascible, playful and intense, Armantrout nails the current moment's debris fields and super computers, its sizzling...

This unique feature on Iraqi Jewish writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems - written by 17 authors - all of whom are of Iraqi descent. For several centuries, Iraqi Jews were key contributors to Iraq's rich social and cultural...

A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music...

Power walks in dressed like your best friend, offers to pay the bills and buy the drinks. Tells you to get some sleep because they've got this, they'll keep watch, stop anyone getting in. Then Power leaves in the night and clears out your house. This is...

The Knotsman does not exist, you will not find him in history books or collections of 'bygone' skills. But Math Jones has created him, and his fellows, in a time very like the English Civil War. There he is, going from house to house, village to village,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738439621Author Lou SelfridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint TapsalteeriePublisher TapsalteerieWeight(grams) 115gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 7mm

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. In Squid Squad: A Novel we join Natalie Chatterley, Angus Mingus, Nerys Harris and friends as they make recordings of the doorbell, uncrumple their cash and fling...