Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727034Author Rachael ClyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692173077Author Phil KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Light Bulb Symphony PressPublisher Light Bulb Symphony PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awake' Mark DotyIn The Trees The Trees, each new line is a...

The two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living - friendships lost or neglected, with their closeness and distances sensitively mapped. This is Philip Gross's...

From social and political issues to found poems, Gibson's fresh, evocative (and sometimes provocative) writing is both modern and timeless. These poems spring from taxis, supermarkets and long car drives through the wind and rain. They spring from...

The poems in Threat, Julia Webb's second collection, train their eagle-eyes on life at the margins, and on family, love, loss, belonging and not belonging. They are not afraid to visit the uncomfortable places where true humanity resides. Threat is an...

A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the...

Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike. Celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648839613Author Phoebe GarnsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Phoebe GarnsworthyPublisher Phoebe GarnsworthyWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Following the success of her T. S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over and award-winning translation of the medieval Pearl, Jane Draycott returns with her fourth collection of poems, The Occupant. With a rhythmic subtlety and metrical poise that have become...

Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A Goodreads Readers Choice Award SemifinalistFrom acclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533687Author Geoffrey BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin. Through juxtaposition of text and image, place...

Skies is Alison Brackenbury's ninth Carcanet collection. In these poems, Brackenbury sustains delicate proximities between war and love, joy and sadness, summer and winter. Starting out as the first trees 'chatter into leaf', the poems cross through...

Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin. His poems are...

Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented, collaging narrative draws together fairytale elements, glimpses of Fairoz's thoughts, and pieces of...

Joyce Sutphen's evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from Maine to Minnesota and beyond will recognize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486451596Author American Poetry & LiteracyPage Count 96Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 84gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

An elevated, gifty anthology of love letters from history's most passionate romantics. This beautiful volume features love letters from a variety of people throughout history, including Heloise and Abelard, Henry VIII, Margaret of Valois, Napoleon...

From politics to pop, from the UK to California, wherever digital heartbeats flutter and stutter, Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on 21st century living. Rishi Dastidar's first full collection showcases one of contemporary poetry's most distinctive...

This collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse...Travellers pass along these ways, in the darkness, in transit,...

Carmina Burana, literally "Songs from Beuern," is named after the village where the manuscript was found. The songbook consists of nearly 250 poems, on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. Compiled in the thirteenth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935744580Author Yannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 221g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913961428Author Palmer SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Press Dionysus LTDPublisher Press Dionysus LTDWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123330Author Michelene WandorFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069860Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

The first "Collected Poems" of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal poems she ever wrote. Claire Harman, the original editor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789509236Author Brian BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

"One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation."-Tony Hoagland"Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes," David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection. In his debut, Hustle, Martinez offered a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856358999Author Eavan BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher Carcanet Press LtdWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646822525Author Travis J WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

The Windows of Graceland gathers the cream of the crop from Martina Evans's five previous collections of poetry, brought up to date by a selection of new and unpublished work. The earliest poems date back to 1998 and Evans's expatriation from Ireland. A...

Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be "a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me." This complete...

Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to show us...

Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard Meier's first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier's poems are often deceptively quiet in their address, the reader will...

The figure of the young American poet living in Paris is familiar from Paul Auster's celebrated novels; here that character is realised in Auster's own stunningly accomplished verse. His penetrating and charged poetry resembles little else in recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143106005Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 195mm...

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735914Author Kevin KantorFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry