Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838274641Author Peter HagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Peter HaguePublisher Peter HagueWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062640949Author David St. JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640607231Author Micah MattixFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 227g

In honour of Goethe and the 200th anniversary of the first publication of his outstanding poem sequence the West-Eastern Divan (1819), A New Divan contains outstanding original poems by twenty-four leading poets - twelve from the `East' and twelve from...

The universe has never been depicted so intimately, nor the mundane so infused with stellar significance as it is in the poetry of Vicki Husband. This debut collection is as inspired by quantum physics as it is by domestic drama: the shape of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908150Author Harry ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593132456Author Nate MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

While working for the BBC on a feature programme on Irish folk singer Dolores Keane, Mike Harding found himself in Clifden and in an estate agent's window found what would become his Irish home, a traditional cottage that had lain empty for almost twenty...

A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2011 and Connecticut Book Awards (Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975685Author Elizabeth AlexanderFormat...

'alas, alas for everythingwe lost on the Heath'Criss-crossed with desire-lines and flight paths, Penelope Shuttle and John Greening's Heath is a wild chorus of poems written in call and response across Hounslow Heath. Through bramble, furze and over wild...

The 'country house poem' was born in the seventeenth century as a fruitful way of flattering potential patrons. But the genre's popularity faded - ironically, just as 'country house society' was emerging. It was only when the power and influence of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772284Author Fred VossFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

"These are poems with teeth and tenderness and so much knowledge. You'd overlook their sharp, glinting beauty at your peril."-Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye and RUEThis is a book of tragicomic gurlesque word-witchery inspired by the Kate...

Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed...

These poems are about birds - particularly the nightingale - and young women. Most are by monks or clerics, and most are rather rude. Several are by Peter of Blois, a scholar and diplomat who turned to religion in his later years and disclaimed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956547Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251966Author Grace WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 146g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553210415Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 104mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385814Author Alastair ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

This anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection is in three parts: it begins with earliest, pre-Christian...

Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject-matter has been equally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968873Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, "Sleeping with the Dictionary", is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, "Roget's Thesaurus" and "The American Heritage Dictionary". In her...

People we love die. And at the heart of the grief there's a sense of wonder: we can't believe it, where have they gone, what are they now, what does that make us? We end up wondering at life too. Death takes us to the edge of living; grief leads us to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372242Author A.C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Following the same successful formula of The Secret Life of Pants and Let's Recycle Grandad, My Cat is in Love with the Goldfish is a compilation of the loopiest love poems ever brought together in one collection. This is a truly original and engaging...

These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on...

This volume examines the poems of T.S. Eliot, work by work.Book InformationISBN 9780815605003Author George WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880105897Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A...

While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published,...

Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) was one of India's greatest modern poets. He wrote prolifically, in both Marathi and English, publishing in magazines and anthologies from 1955, but did not bring out a book of poems until he was 44. "Jejuri" (1976) won him the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781997062Author Nicola CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd

The Branch Will Not Break is a reflective anthology of poems which evokes its author's upbringing in poverty-stricken Ohio during the 1930s and 1940s. Representing a radical and innovative departure from the more conventional and nature-orientated works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985981884Author Farzana MarieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398427518Author Jayne Salisbury-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337403Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...