Poetry

Tess Gallagher is one of America's leading poets. In Midnight Lantern she collects her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of Ireland. Included in this generous book are Gallagher's...

From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the third and final volume in his newest series. r.h. Sin completes his bestselling series with Planting Gardens in Graves III, another powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916090835Author Sue BurgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Hedgehog Poetry PressPublisher Hedgehog Poetry PressWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913196059Author Asta Fanney SigurdardottirFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Partus PressPublisher Partus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841461Author Rachelle AtallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437101Author Robert AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Acclaimed Instagram poet F.D. Soul (@featherdownsoul) debuts a new poetry collection,telling her own invigorating, unapologetic narrative of love, loss, and adversity. Soul's words pulse, they are alive on the page, attesting to the significance of...

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries   In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398832701Author Emily DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627041Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Frank Ormsby's seventh collection of poems reflects not only the beauty of the Irish landscape and the sensuous and aesthetic impact of the small farms among which he grew up, but also the continuing violence of the 'Troubles'. Close to the surface of...

Selected poems by Edward Lear with his own original illustrations. Produced in an attractive and collectible format, marketed at a competitive price. This is part of a series which will number about 12 titles.Book InformationISBN 9781912945085Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176306Author Alexander VvedenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities and blundering politicians, royal babies and right royal cock-ups, milkshake madness and vegan sausage rolls - and, of course, the long and winding road to Brexit. If ever the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735112Author Donte CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739702977Author John WienersFormat PaperbackImprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This for YouI Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never...

This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. First published in 1967 in the 'red Macmillan' series, it was reprinted by BCP in 1982 with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629966584Author Donald A. RiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398442290Author Clare SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a central figure in post-war French culture, with a lifelong fascination with the problems of translation. Language, for him, was a visceral, intensely material element in our existence, and yet the abstract quality of words...

In Moya Cannon's new collection, Hands, the commonplace is transfigured by an attentiveness that jolts us into wonder. The poems sing of deep connections: the impulse to ritual and pattern that, across centuries, defines us as human; a web of...

Not Just Moonshine: New and Selected Poems has been compiled to celebrate Tessa Ransford's seventieth birthday. This book chooses poems from each of the last four decades. This selection makes possible an overview of Tessa' development, styles and themes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131717Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' GWENDOLYN BROOKS'Grace Nichols has wit,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957596099Author Ann Marie EleazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams)...

Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue and...

poems about being sick and being in love. finding out you've got a serious illness like multiple sclerosis is a bit like falling in love. you are never quite the same again. when you get your heartbroken, it's like getting the news that you're ill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627058Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335191Author Maria ApichellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

This is a second, significantly revised, edition of the work of Eric Roach, who with Claude McKay and Louise Bennett was the Caribbean's most important poet before the generation of Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. It collects the poems published in...

Greta Garbo, the immortal goddess of the silver screen, said that she wanted to be alone. What if she had been granted that wish? What if she had travelled further and further until she arrived at the North Pole? And what if she met a faithful dog along...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563741Author Nathalie HandalFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783350Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his muse and model, who was also his wife. It is a rich pattern for the study of the mysteries of domesticity, the unspoken privacies...

Written during the final years of Frithjof Schuon's life, these short teachings and aphorisms are a metaphysical and spiritual summa, distilling the essence of the philosopher's teaching in a form that is at once direct, accessible and synthetic. The...

Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles. Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the...

The Galloping Hour: French Poems-never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime-gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano) wrote in French. Conceived during her Paris...

Peter Reading was one of Britain's most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking - as funny as he was disconcerting. Over four decades he became our most skilful and technically inventive...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious green warrior. In...