Poetry

Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.Sunshine combines acute social observation with...

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668019993Author Sam SaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 8mm

The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly's 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence. But Judas never goes away. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912356898Author Ron GeavesFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)...

Though North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have escaped. Known only by his pen name, the poet and author 'Bandi' stands as one of the most distinctive and original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524855031Author Taisia KitaiskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel Publishing

A beautiful, heartfelt collection of romantic words and powerful affirmations of love - the perfect gift, whatever the occasion, for the one who has captured your heart You are my everything For the person you can't live without - the one who puts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591082Author Anna SwirFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573121845Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486453491Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation. Following the withdrawal of...

Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732861060Author Kindra M AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Blank Paper PressPublisher Blank Paper PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951197001Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Blackberry Publishing GroupPublisher Blackberry Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, but also a moving commentary by one set of practisingartists on the work of another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911005097Author Gaston BachelardFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Dallas Institute of Humanities & CulturePublisher Dallas Institute of Humanities &...

Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century. With Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, she retained her humanity and integrity through Russia's 'terrible years' of the Great Terror. Even in her long, tragic...

Edited by Hanan Issa, Durre Shahwar and OEzgur Uyanik. "I felt the city in my muscles, my saliva. I wanted to be changed. I wanted to be in love." A young woman weaves her experience of abuse into the folklore of her ancestors. A student addresses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767900027Author Jalal Al-Din RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

In Gregory Leadbetter's second poetry collection, Maskwork, mystery, theatre and ritual combine to reveal rather than to disguise. The mask, in these resonant poems, acts as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing - granting access to altered states and...

Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the leading authors of her time, including Ben Johnson, who praised her work for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528720496Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912849Author Anis MojganiFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Key features of this text: How to study the text Author and historical background General and detailed summaries Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style Glossaries Test questions and issues to consider Essay writing advice...

Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books-Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed-along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075002Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Sang fur the Wandert is a new collection of poetry from award-winning Janet Paisley. Written in Scots and English, the poems look at Scotland and the world, covering personal and international events from 542 to the present day. The collection explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506486710Author Kim SingletonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

The Extasie is a compelling book of love poems with its lyrical roots deep in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the rural traditions of the nineteenth. Among New Zealand poet John Gallas's spirit guides are John Clare and, in particular, Wyatt...

A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853837Author Rachel BowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada's finest established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain is the first anthology dedicated solely to the poetry of the Alberta landscape and cityscape, by authors who have travelled the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571748300Author Kahil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co

Delving into new worlds populated by robots, witches, talking pandas, and giant stags, this collection offers funny, haunting, and heartbreaking poems. Highlighting the poet's dazzling lyrical instincts balanced by her stinging wit, it moves between high...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394717487Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

In "The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry", introduced and edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris, poetic visions from the 20th century will be reinforced and in many ways revised. Alongside renowned masters, there will be many new discoveries -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982104863Author AtticusFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm

In his second poetry collection Solastalgia, Irish poet Ciaran Hodgers explores the intersection of environment and mental health. Considering the effects of climate change on the wellbeing of our world and ourselves, this exploration of ecopsychology...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space...