Poetry

Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters - half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures - from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera...

"Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals," Susan Howe has said. In Concordance, she has created a fresh body of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives. "Since," a semi-autobiographical prose-poem, opens the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478000204Author Dionne BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838099015Author Ian L. ClayFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor Publishing

'Bird Sisters exerts a powerful hold, as if to read it is to be haunted by things one half-remembers.' - Moniza Alvi'All is strange or estranged in fact, but it is articulated in poems of supple inventive concentration. In that sense Bird Sisters is a...

This remarkable new collection of poems is a sure affirmation of the fact that, as one critic has written, Linda Pastan "has quietly become one of our leading poets." Another critic noted, of her first volume, that she "in large measure fulfilled...

Red is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets. "Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows."...

A milestone of modern poetry, American history comes to life in the actual words of victims and criminals in its courts.Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts,...

From the author of You Must Remember This, an uncanny collection of poems that plumbs our capacity for cruelty and for wonder. Who? A speaker at once questioner and questioned. An artist who embraces and resists what his work requires of him. "A naked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709128Author Kenneth KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125g

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the...

Michael Palmer's new book-a collection in two parts, "The Laughter of the Sphinx" and "Still (a cantata-or nada-for Sister Satan)"-contains 52 poems. The title poem begins "The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed" and haunts us with the ruin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612616414Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634720Author Kajal AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon PressWeight(grams) 58g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909954335Author Peter ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Barbican PressPublisher Barbican Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391822Author Beth SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

It was after his return from Europe that he started his real poetic career. His transitory period was over. His ideas had matured and he had formulated his outlook on human aspects, which lasted throughout his life. Ansaari-Khudi (Secrets of Self) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553164Author Stuart HensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 106gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan just before her family fled to Iran. She returned home at the age of five, but when she was 14 the Kurds were attacked with chemical weapons, and her family were forced back into exile. Her poems chart lives of...

Everyone is capable of accomplishing extraordinary things. If you share this belief, then this book was written for you. In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808204Author Robert GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of...

Poetry of the sky and stars.Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial...

Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between connected and separate lives. With an unflinching eye, she takes on complex and often painful subject-matter - cancer for instance...

For the past two years (2006-2008) The Bridge of Silver Wings has earned a name for itself both as a series of poems published in different e-zines and as a book first published in 2007. What makes this 2009 edition a special one is the inclusion of five...

This volume is the first affordable, modern collection of all eleven of the known Middle English Gawain tales, and aims to make these texts accessible to a wider, contemporary audience. These poems-The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Sir Gawain...

"I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel,...

Robert Peake's second full collection of poems is about weathering storms-personal, political, psychological-in our present-day climate of chaos. These are matters of life or death, and Cyclone urges us to consider what the ill wind may bring, and how we...

From the author of I Love My Love comes this spiritual inquiry in four parts - the blues, epiphany, prayer, and rebirth. A Psalm for Us is Reyna "Biddy" Mays's soulful collection of prose, self-affirmations, spoken word poems, and short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781906841034Author Sorley MacleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint...

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ...

welcome to the beautiful universe of Henn Kim who are you when you're alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of visual poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. a heavy heart is hard to carry hold on When words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398459700Author Jill SaudekFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743271Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 144gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past...

Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New...

A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot...

This is the first comprehensive edition of Spenser's shorter poems since the Variorum Minor Poems published in the 1940s. In the interval our understanding of Renaissance culture of Spenser's work has changed greatly. The new Shorter Poems has a double...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841294Author J. Derrick McClureFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626863897Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 463g