Poetry

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...

So Glad I'm Me was Roddy Lumsden's tenth collection, and sadly turned out to be the last book he published. In these haunting poems he returned to familiar themes in his work: the trials of oneness versus twoness, the seduction of small calamities, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912696Author Andrea GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981750590Author William CowperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908341Author Aziz Isa ElkunFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

For the Unnamed was originally entitled 'For the Unnamed Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Pico's Sarco and Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852'. That title provided the full narrative in a nutshell: we know the names...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300641Author Sharon PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739229900Author Tom FinlayFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Finlay Consultancy LtdPublisher Finlay Consultancy LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999025420Author Emily Rose ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Minerva Rising PressPublisher Minerva Rising PressWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)...

Aeneid Book 2Book InformationISBN 9780198721062Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 186mm * 122mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829306Author Hillel BroderFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063288591Author Edgar KunzFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930691Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340g

"Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time," writes Clive James in his epic poem, The River in the Sky. What emerges from this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987073488Author Barry H YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 161Imprint Woodslane Pty LtdPublisher Woodslane Pty Ltd

I saw a tramp last night the way the old dog walked with dotted, tired fur down nobody's alley being nobody's dog ...past the empty vodka bottles past the peanut butter jars, with wires full of electricity and the birds asleep somewhere, down the alley...

Scurrilous verse.The poetry of the archaic period that the Greeks called iambic is characterized by scornful criticism of friend and foe and by sexual license. The purpose of these poems is unclear, but they seem to have some connection with cult songs...

First published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work.These Selected Poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes provide both an invaluable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894849Author Al-Saddiq Al-RaddiFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

The first major anthology of poems whose subject is entirely horses, this collection by Olwen Way covers the whole spectrum of poetry. From the classical Greek and Roman writers to contemporary poets still making their name; from the rollicking sporting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060769666Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 84gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745797Author James MatthewsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

The poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping off in Scottish islands and English wildernesses,...

Like A New Sun features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages. Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Victor Teran and translator David Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739173074Author Jim GreenhalfFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Luis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes,...

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug - some of the most famous tales of terror and the most macabre detective stories ever written. Acknowledged master of suspense, Poe was also a poet and...

From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that proves love is infinite and ever changing.This is a seven-year tapestry of love, adventure, enlightenment,...

Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526595Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995294806Author Vicki RivardFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vicki RivardPublisher Vicki RivardWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789968495066Author Mitra PolitiFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Reuven PolitiPublisher Reuven PolitiWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

The Mancunian Ways Anthology fuses poetry, art and photography to embody the spirit of Manchester and paint a picture of the changing city. We travel from rousing celebrations of resilience (in the light of the Manchester Arena bombing), to showcases of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115799Author Damian Walford-DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 125g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640605145Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486826912Author E.E. CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its consequences...

A Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation 2023 BBC Poetry Extra's Book of the Month August 2023 This, Lisa Kelly's second collection, responds to the repression of British Sign Language (BSL) as its occasion and inspiration. Kelly develops the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578886572Author Topher KearbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Gray Force PublishingPublisher Gray Force PublishingWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902831220Author William SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Perth & Kinross LibrariesPublisher Perth & Kinross Libraries