Poetry

This volume celebrates the poetic heritage of the Emerald Isle, with more than 50 classic poems about Ireland's people, history, character and myths and legends. Its contributors include William Butler Yeats, William Allingham and other well-known Irish...

This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060568238Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477241Author Alex WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

"To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particularly. It's a book about grief, death, rebirth, ancestors, and spirit. I talk about the matrix and wanting out of it."-Reyna Biddy A collection of poetry...

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry.Written from the heart, When Angels...

The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect...

The poems in Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick's latest collection were written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the current situation in the Middle East. King Driftwood draws upon the poet's travels in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and...

Hotel Raphael, Rachael Boast's fourth collection, charts a journey through heat, drought and pain, and describes not only the reality of chronic illness, but living with it at a time of global crisis.Raphael is the patron saint of travellers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910834701Author Kay CottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

This text of the fourth book of the Aeneid includes a detailed commentary.Book InformationISBN 9780198721116Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 186mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062144607Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900771870Author AnthologyFormat PaperbackImprint Poetry SocietyPublisher Poetry Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398442122Author Susan SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781366128294Author ShanFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

For half a century of ever-broadening vision, award-winning poet Harry Clifton has addressed what the Irish Times calls 'his large concerns and his angular relationship to Ireland, one that produces extraordinary verbal and emotional effects'. His latest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915138838Author D.Z. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Pickwick Publications,U.S.Publisher Pickwick Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 283g

"Poetry that hits you right in the feels. The magic of Lanuza's writing flows effortlessly with every piece. Definitely left wanting more. " - Sab (www.sabthebookeater.com) The Last Time I'll Write About You is popular Filipino YA and romance writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406125Author Zachary KluckmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 69gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954736736Author Jeremy NaydlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint The Godstow PressPublisher The Godstow PressDimensions(mm) 175mm * 120mm * 5mm

'The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880012423Author Robert HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804393451Author Cheryl Anne HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Where do we find the words to greet a new arrival? In this celebratory book, poet Kate Clanchy has made an inspired choice of poems that speak powerfully of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and mystery that new life brings, from conception through to the...

Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2020. Spain's greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began...

Enjoy the beauty of the changing seasons from a new perspective with this stunning collection of poetry! This poetry collection is, indeed, about seeing God in everything. Throughout this book, the nature of the changing seasons is observed through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449493226Author R H SinFormat PaperbackImprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams) 980gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 127mm...

2013 National Book Award FinalistIn his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In Outgoing, the speaker erases his brother's...

The Books of Catullus is the first full English translation to take the Roman poet at his word. Simon Smith's versions are scholarly yet eccentric, mapping theme and register to contemporary equivalents (such as poem 16, which echoes Frank O'Hara). He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578451169Author N R HartFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Monday Creek PublishingPublisher Monday Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Historically, research on spoken language testing dates back to the late 1920s with the majority of work starting around the time of World War II. In contrast, signed language assessment research is a young area, nested within signed language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609800980Author Susan G. WooldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724873Author Amy WackPage Count 32Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Anew, sun, to fire summer leaves move toward the air from the stems of the branches fire summer fire summer -from Anew Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky's shorter verse collected in one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130969Author Samuel BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Crowned "Prince of Poets" in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine's poetry available in English translation...

The poetry of Helen Craik (1751–1825), Gothic novelist and friend of Robert Burns, was long thought lost. The rediscovery of her manuscript Poems by a Lady (1790), transcribed and annotated here for the first time, invites a fresh evaluation of her life...

Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first collection, All the Prayers in the House, which holds at its...

Longlisted for the 2020 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with a third Carcanet volume, Skin Can Hold. The collection marks an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449493295Author Lang LeavFormat PaperbackImprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...