Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986255632Author Pierre Alex JeantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Jeanius Publishing LLCPublisher Jeanius Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

A collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's Stone Fruit nonetheless speak across their many common preoccupations: memory, grief, the fallibility of the physical form, our connection to and place in the world, natural and otherwise...

The second volume of poetry by Gruffudd Owen, Chaired Bard of Cardiff National Eisteddfod 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781911584759Author Gruffudd OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cyhoeddiadau BarddasPublisher Cyhoeddiadau Barddas

Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which mismatched characters are bounced between love, death and disappointment. Hers is a seemingly small world...

The most important prose-poem collection of the 20th century, available in a trade publication for the first time Max Jacob's role in French modernity was essential, and with this second volume of his work from Wakefield Press, it can now be fully and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060752514Author Distinguished Writer Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477708Author Todd SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590304259Author Sam HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

Few poets have as much to tell us about the intricate relationship between the African American past and present as Jay Wright. His poems weave a rich fabric of personal history using diverse materials drawn from African, Native American, and European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of One of the 10 best books of Canadian poetry of 2017 (CBC Books) 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry...

The poets whose work is included in this anthology were born in the 1960s, when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, and mostly started publishing after the country achieved independence in 1991. Unlike their predecessors, the poets of this generation...

Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.About the AuthorCharles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry...

Celebrating the art of the poet-translator, this pioneering anthology shows how the very heart of the English tradition has been sustained and enriched by translation over the centuries. The three editors have gathered together supreme examples of this...

Formally distinctive and beautifully honed, Mother, (v) is a reflective, precise and poignant sequence exploring fertility and its absence. This is honest, exquisitely realised poetry written with a freshness and intelligence that draws the reader in...

Brilliantly observed, wry, witty and brimming with energy, the latest collection from Pete Marshall ranges from short lyric pieces to prose poems to text conversations to draw astute word-portraits of its array of 'odd fellows'. Inventive, scalpel-sharp,...

Jacqueline Saphra will follow her critically acclaimed, T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted All My Mad Mothers (2017) with Dad, Remember You Are Dead, a sister volume to her previous collection, taking on the canon in an examination of fatherhood and...

Road Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell, and an accomplished craft in using traditional and contemporary forms. As a poet of Jamaican heritage, born and raised in north London and now working...

The book spans three centuries--opening with Angelus Silesius, Klopstock, Claudius, Goethe, and Schiller, and ending with Brecht and Boell--but it has considerable continuity. The prefaces for each of the twenty-five poets integrate the selections into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912474Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595806Author Traci BrimhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

A paperback reissue of a beautiful anthology. A diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English - from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London's bustling streets and a nation...

A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is passionate and...

Hafsah Aneela Bashir's debut poetry collection is by turns tender, poignant and fierce. With searingly sharp detail, this is an exploration of the private and the public, teasing out the relationship between the two; compelling readers to stop and look...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534880Author Megan FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913675196Author Anna PaczuskaFormat PaperbackImprint Honeybee BooksPublisher Honeybee Books

Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117728Author Joanna KlinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 106gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Across one day in London, twelve elderly men and women sit in flats, walk, or wait, and speak about their histories, their hopes, their loves, their disappointments and griefs - and above all seek to express who they are and what their life has been...

Alexander Pushkin's epic magic-realist tale is brought vividly to life in this superb translation by D. M. Thomas. Drawing on the Russian folklore of Pushkin's childhood, the poem recounts the abduction of Princess Ludmila by the evil wizard Chernomor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838151201Author Damian GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint The JunctionPublisher The Junction

sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839407185Author Gabriele TafuniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. As John Kinsella writes in his introduction, 'she looked inwards into...

Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the "Epistle of Cupid," a free translation of Christine de...

No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith,...

The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angeles--based African American surrealist Will Alexander. Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aime Cesaire and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553255768Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735966Author Stephen KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 5mm

The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern...