Poetry

'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow - and even glimpses of 'full sun'. This selection from his own work does not...

First penned in Egypt between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the Physiologus brought together poetic descriptions of animals and their Christian allegories. Translated into a wide range of languages from across North Africa and much of Europe, each version...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306826405Author Nikita GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970020970Author SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Phaelos Books & MediawerksPublisher Phaelos Books & MediawerksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598937Author Sean HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436217Author Helen MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380733071Author Naomi Shihab NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins Children's BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514002698Author Drew JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338310597Author Donalyn MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Scholastic ProfessionalPublisher Scholastic ProfessionalWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award In her debut collection of verse and prose, Moise moves deftly between memories of growing up as a Haitian immigrant in the suburbs of Boston, to bearing witness to brutality and catastrophe,...

A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic.ReviewsAn essential work in understanding both the literary approach of C.S. Lewis and the theological assumptions of Paradise Lost. Unparalleled in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596285Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Like a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos, philosophical tracts and grammar. Unlike a toboggan of...

Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems from Carmina Burana. The Carmina Burana is a collection of poems, songs and sung religious drama from the twelfth and thirteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395120989Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hardship...

David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke. The Antioch Review has ascribed to him a"profoundly earthbound...

Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916877900Author D B WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint D.B.WrightPublisher D.B.WrightWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999173920Author Mira HadlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Miranda WilliamsonPublisher Miranda WilliamsonWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179246Author Guillaume ApollinaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Archipelago is a bilingual selection of poems by the leading Italian poet Antonella Anedda drawn from five collections she has published in Italy. Her poetry has a searing, disruptive quality, an honesty that is hard won. Her words have the air of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596100Author Erin BelieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

A baby that keeps losing its brain, a cow in a wedding gown, a woman whose chest is a radio - bizarre and whimsical figures populate this collection of dreamlike prose poems from Russell Edson (1935-2014), with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Charles...

Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914591Author Cliff YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398488564Author Mark RaybouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Fusing lyric meditation and narrative perceptions, the poems in Cynthia Hogue's new collection 'Flux' track the natural world and the self in it -- from the Sonoran Desert of the Southwest to the far north of Iceland. In the tradition of the distilled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561088Author William SieghartFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 144mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990625926Author Am RamzyFormat PaperbackImprint Daybreak PressPublisher Daybreak PressWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735495Author Desiree DallagiacomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147712554Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1264Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Arrow is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is 'Dear, beloved', a more-than-elegy...

James Kirkwood Full Length, Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female Interior Set In the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired...

In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close approximation of Greek hexameter verse in natural English rhythms. The result is a Homeric Hymns marked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522810Author John BerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint 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 9780374530655Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before for the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398461376Author Anila MirzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers