Poetry

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 *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251607Author Chiamaka Enyi-AmadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692934555Author Waseem NabulsiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Za'atar Publishing HousePublisher Za'atar Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

The North American debut of Tue Sy-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam-and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master,...

Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but never dispiriting. Elaine Feinstein uses the remembered words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946145246Author Charles J DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Incendiary Art confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of murdered African American men. Dynamic sequences, including a compelling chronicle of the devastating murder of Emmett Till, serve as a backdrop...

Finalist for the 2024 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay PoetryCollaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a...

What has industrial slaughter got to do with poetry? "The Cow" performs an autopsy of the twentieth century on the bodies of ruined women, ransacking texts from the Bible to "Baudelaire" and "The Merck Veterinary Manual". It is hopeless, sexual,...

In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of "covidity," as Bernstein calls it in one of the book's most poignantly...

Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen again to the world around us - the world of rocks and...

A new sequence of poems by Sean O'Brien, winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. The season is high summer, the hour is late, 'in the high numbers', the place is one where roots remain deep, but at the same time it grows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982375662Author John BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Madrona BooksPublisher Madrona BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Some Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning and consolation in the wake of bereavement, the memorial role of music, and the effects of social...

Zebra is the debut collection from Hebden Bridge-based Ian Humphreys. These acutely-observed and joyful poems explore mixed identities, otherness, and coming-of-age as a gay man in 1980s Manchester. Humphreys is a fellow of The Complete Works programme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472456273Author AnonimoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Editorial KairosPublisher Editorial KairosWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 166mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486685Author Rebecca Morgan FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? First published in 1896, A.E. Housman’s best-loved collection of poetry is a...

Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727058Author Zakia Carpenter-HallPage Count 28Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."--David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle .....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892554492Author Michael SalcmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

"All Just', David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062914729Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

The Complete Poems of Li Ch'ing-chao (1084-c. 1151) brings together for the first time in English translation all the surviving verse of China's greatest woman poet. Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648987215Author Lauren EdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Lauren EdenPublisher Lauren EdenWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982200978Author Shelly Sykes-ColeyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927494509Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.Publisher Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486223056Author Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize, this new collection of expert lyric poems from Whitbread Poetry Award winner Bernard O'Donoghue movingly animates the scenery and characters of his childhood in County Cork. The mythologies of family are here:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724989Author Sheenagh PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Zoe Brigley's third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities...

At the center of Mayakovsky's Revolver is the suicide of Matthew Dickman's older brother. "Known for poems of universality of feeling, expressive lyricism of reflection, and heartrending allure" (Major Jackson), Dickman is a powerful poet whose new...

Whip-hot & Grippy is a collection of possibilities in a state of emergency. In the first part, a series of long-form and sequenced poems augment various states of being divided/plural in attempts to activate unauthorised directions. Disrupted tangents...