Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992958145Author Steve ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

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 ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692658444Author Topher KearbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Gray Force PublishingPublisher Gray Force PublishingWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241240618Author John MiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of understanding, both of the world around him and within...

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan."Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374520250Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781902382890Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642375664Author Joseph LauricellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880014779Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 18mm

This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays...

How to Carry Fire was born from the ashes of family addiction. Beginning with the burning down of her childhood home, Thatcher explores how fire can both destroy and cleanse. Her work recognises embers everywhere: in farmhouses, heroin needles, poisonous...

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as...

Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned both with our...

The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by the generation's leading male literati as an equal,...

Soul Rise is collection of poems that have evolved from a poem called Share. These have become expressions of the soul born to touch the soul of each reader. After each expression there is a Soul Reflections page, designed so that readers can write down...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375700Author Gloria GervitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595140145Author Albert HuffsticklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).About the AuthorAdrienne Rich...

Longlisted for the 2018 Read Russia Prize. 'Vladimir Mayakovsky' & Other Poems is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism's vital literary forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky's pre-Revolutionary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110737Author Paul BirtillFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press

Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780887480218Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher...

These poems gives voice to the people who came on the first ships from the Caribbean, whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages which had brought ancestors from Africa to the slave plantations. James Berry - from Jamaica - was one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804840085Author Andrzej KotańskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648553748Author Oz HardwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 140g

The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. Yunus is the most important representative of early Turkish mysticism; he can be considered the founder of Alevi-Bektasi literature, and...

Salt is a distinctive assembly of poems by the multi-award winning David Harsent. Resting somewhere between fragment and exposition, these intense and primal pieces stretch out across the measure of the page in the form of brief utterances. One extends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841164Author David GoldieFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780956107381Author Dennis NurkseFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint CB...

A unique anthology of poetry and prose extracts by Roma writers from 20 countries interwoven with a chronology of the history of the Roma since their departure from India in 997 AD to the repeal of the last US law discriminating against Roma in January...

Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and...

Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well known proponents of the prose poetry form such as George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390402Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068823Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 165mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528577Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585539Author Philip HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended late-meditations on form, content, and spirit. To apply his own...

More Than Weeds, the debut poetry collection by L. Kiew, explores the language of migration and how it is used in relation to plant and animal species, as well as peoples. These knowledgeable and verdant poems draw deeply on botanical and ecological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692536919Author Samantha PiousFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Headmistress PressPublisher Headmistress PressWeight(grams) 200g