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Shortlisted for the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize, this third collection by Esther Morgan is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and includes 'This Morning', winner of the 2010 Bridport Poetry Prize. What happens if, when the angel arrives with his message, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627157Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Enzensberger is a...

Vrettakoss poems are firmly rooted in the Greek landscape and coloured by the Greek light, yet their themes and sentiment are ecumenical. His garden, his own heart, are but a microcosm of the entire world, of the whole of humanity, and both contain...

In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477876Author Mariah WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with others. This elegantly designed chapbook collects several...

George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their...

Spanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessy's Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems introduces new readers to one of America's most audacious and thrilling poets. Since debuting with the sexy swagger of 1999's Interior with Sudden Joy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985056803Author Jalaluddin RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Rumi Publications / Rumi Poetry ClubPublisher Rumi Publications / Rumi Poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594441Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 99g

A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman's book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book...

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526670Author Yannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm)...

A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele MsimangContemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995729049Author Bob WoodroofeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint The Greenwood PressPublisher The Greenwood PressWeight(grams) 154g

"You are my destiny, The compass points to you, You can have the best of me, When I get back to you" A poetry collection written with humour and honesty in the cab of his truck - HGV driver Michael John Evans takes a fresh look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062663498Author Jorie GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

German poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kate Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153380Author Gabbie HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557255990Author Anna KamienskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

A thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry "I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise and fall away." Journey to a galaxy far, far away like never before-through lyrical verse and meter...

Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot...

Adrienne Rich whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (The New York Times) was the singular voice of her generation. She brought discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of...

The recurrent themes of Little Silver are inheritance, loss, and the relationship between real and imagined lives. Moments of crisis - a near-drowning, a fall down a mine-shaft, the death of a friend - prompt reflection on the stories 'we tell ourselves...

"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play...is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Rafts and Dreams: "While digging up the roots of a tree in the garden, Neil,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578913377Author MacKenzie August-McClureFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Donovan BeckPublisher Donovan BeckWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783947881Author KabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902121789Author Eavan BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Poetry Ireland Ltd.Publisher Poetry Ireland Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075620Author Derwent MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565493Author Norman DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 168g

This collection of Dante Alighieri's lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his Vita nuova and Divine Comedy developed. Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love poetry, Dante would later come to master all the genres of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640095779Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739281205Author Alan JenkinsFormat PaperbackImprint New Walk EditionsPublisher New Walk Editions

2015 World Poetry Slam Champion and Woman of the World co-Champion Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud presents her hauntingly beautiful debut poetry collection. Brimming with rage, sorrow, and resilience, this collection traverses an expansive terrain: genocide;...

"Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted. The reader has been invited to a sleepover at the asylum, a night in which five-year old girls drift alone through the wards, where the mentally unstable do sit-ups when nobody is watching and where...

Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems brings together in English translation eight of the longer poems by Nicaragua's impassioned Marxist priest, Ernesto Cardenal, described in the Times Literary Supplement as "the outstanding socially committed poet of...

A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade-the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called "the Millennial Oprah" by New York magazine-that offers creative inspiration and life lessons through poetry, mantras, and affirmations, perfect for fans of...

Readers call William's poetry "breath-taking", "refreshing" and "relatable to anyone".The Grief We're Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature,...