Poetry

C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs `a Johnsonian presence with a Miltonic disability' - a reference to the poet's blindness. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. His...

The Objectivist Press published George Oppen's first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106040Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Annie Freud's new book The Remains was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of Sung Dynasty works on paper, and their unselfconscious blending of illustration and poetry. However the book has its imaginative origins in a huge collection of broken...

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.About the AuthorStanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical...

The third volume in the 'Car Racing' collection, 1967 bears witness to the gradual appearance of colour. Photographers henceforth juggled rolls of both black & white and colour film as they ventured as close as possible to the drivers and throngs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902121574Author John McAuliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Poetry Ireland Ltd.Publisher Poetry Ireland Ltd.Weight(grams) 564g

Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955645815Author Marie -Pearl AddoFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Marie-Pearl AddoPublisher Marie-Pearl Addo

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607025Author Lex HixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The...

The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth-century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous...

Ancient Rome's longest epic.Silius Italicus (T. Catius, AD 25-101), was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of...

Margins, edges and coastlines abound in John McCullough's tender, humorous explorations of contemporary life and love. Encompassing everything from lichen to lava lamps, and from the etymology of words to Brighton's gay scene,& Spacecraft is a humane and...

Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city...

This anthology is the record of a revolution in Chinese poetry. As the Cultural Revolution gave way to the post-Mao era - years of political turmoil, economic boom and the return of Hong Kong - the present period has been one of extraordinary and deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780151686568Author T. S. EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco Press

Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning...

Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one...

Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Poems on historical battles where horses played an important part present us with a commentary on the political agenda of...

Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem "My Life", a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. "The Language of Inquiry" is a...

The poems in Rythmes pittoresques, first published in 1890, present not only a poet searching for a voice, but also a female poet searching for a voice while breaking down rules of both versification and gender-determined source of expression. They went...

Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the conquering Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey, from a doomed love affair in Carthage with the tragic Queen Dido to a...

Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys' club, and asserts the truth that the cypher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270920Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589184Author Philip WhalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In The Coming of the Little Green Man, his eighth Bloodaxe collection, we enter a world of play...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048692Author Canisia LubrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

"if you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body." Pangaea is a collection of poetry about working through the trauma inflicted on a body, whether the trauma comes from a person, a country, or from within. It is the act of...

This is the fourth volume in the series of Everyman Pocket Poet Love Poems, following the success of Love poems, Erotic Poems and Love Letters. LOVE SONGS AND SONNETS takes a wider view of love, covering all aspects of human relationships, from...

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985467975Author Ivan M GrangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Poetry ChaikhanaPublisher Poetry ChaikhanaWeight(grams) 268g

"I never missed my childhood home / until the tide stopped rolling in and / ochre sand no longer crunched between my toes ..." A little girl grows up to the sounds of the seaside in bustling Cleethorpes. There are family outings through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764804946Author Joseph GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liguori Publications,U.S.Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces, Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721513Author Carrie EtterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's...

Bea's favourite customer, Julie, hasn't been seen for weeks. Her abusive husband, Dave, claims she's left him but Bea can't shake the feeling something worse has happened. When a body is found, it seems to confirm her fears - until it comes out that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737010319Author Michelle G StradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Michelle G. StradfordPublisher Michelle G. StradfordWeight(grams)...

At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a...