Poetry

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2001.Book InformationISBN 9781854113054Author Pascale PetitFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917388Author Rona CranFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598920Author Pascale PetitFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322051Author Christopher PoindexterFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Monarch Publishing, LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Vidyan Ravinthiran's much-anticipated first collection contains many poems about Sri Lanka which fuse politics, personal history and myth, yet his voice pitches itself not so much halfway between East and West as between emotional forthrightness and...

A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes's...

Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies intertwined with passages about major life changes involving country, identity and belonging. It is about perpetually standing at the edge of change, anticipating it,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787803701Author James ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936347509Author W. M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 366g

One of Moldova's most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Pa un's style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Paun's work to Anglophone readers, is...

Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668031308Author Diana Khoi NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998761060Author Prof Hilary BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Headmistress PressPublisher Headmistress PressWeight(grams) 73g

Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337168Author Khaled MattawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Scotland's ballads represent one of the high-water marks of Scottish literature and are famous as superb expressions of oral culture, reflecting a world of magic, deep passion and history transformed into legend.This selection includes more than...

Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly...

The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set...

Appropriately for a book haunted by music, Katharine Towers' poems exhibit an almost pianistic sense of timing, touch and tone. In The Floating Man, Towers writes about weight and weightlessness, presence and absence, the body in space, and our oblique...

A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry A CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry A Bustle Best Book of 2020 A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020 "Some girls are not made," torrin a. greathouse writes, "but spring from the dirt."...

Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060724290Author Nikki GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530785Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint 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 9780060577025Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883193Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908129Author Emily FragosFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

This expanded edition of "Postwar Polish Poetry" (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956,...

Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape-hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785180Author Alice OswaldFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 280mm * 196mm * 16mm

Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent...

The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard.Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375404641Author Sylvia PlathFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

while news love meant to keep forever is wiped, so lightly, by this scanning weeper. 'Another Lighthouse' Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems turns on the strange arts of remembering and forgetting. From Rome to Yorkshire, Naples to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910669051Author Bernadette CreminFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNew Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853981Author Charlotte EichlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 2mm

Recite your poem to your aunt. I threw myself to the ground. Where were you in the night? In a school among the pines. What was the meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her...