Poetry

With contributions from Jay Bernard, Malika Booker, Kat Francois, Jay T. John, Anthony Joseph, Ishion Hutchinson, Charnell Lucien, Vladimir Lucien, Rachel Manley, Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf. What does it mean to fight for a 'mother country'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724255Author Ben WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909357624Author Geoffrey WinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm...

Donald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for 'The Movement' and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers and teachers of poetry. They have also proven of value to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Poetry) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9781560252276Author Alan KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Thunder's Mouth...

"It will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume-the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems in 1955-marks the permanent establishment of a major visionary...

Georges Feydeau's elegantly complex play is brought to life in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation by Peter Hall and Nicki Frei. Feydeau, the supreme master of farce, displays all his dramatic tricks as his characters are pulled back and...

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical...

In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America's brutal history into a poetic whole.About the AuthorJoy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the...

The most celebrated of French medieval poets, Francois Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw urban life of Paris with its petty officials, students, clergy, tradesmen, pimps, whores and thieves. Despite successful studies, the young Villon...

San Juan de la Cruz, the 16th-century Spanish mystic, is regarded as one of Spain's finest poets. Passionate, ecstatic and spiritual, his poems are a blend of lyricism and mystical thought. This book presents a translation of the complete poems, with the...

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age "Elegiac and witty."-Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, "The Best Poetry of 2022" "These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692131336Author Jh HardFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Jh HardPublisher Jh HardWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Just before Christmas 1944, Albrecht Haushofer had been delivered to the Gestapo prison in the Moabit district of Berlin. In solitary confinement, fettered hand and foot, he awaited a show trial with a predetermined outcome. After a while he was allowed...

Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar. Though the subject of this unfinished masterpiece is historical, many of...

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172875Author Edward HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 146gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958061022Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449495763Author Rupi KaurFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536589Author Yehuda Amichai; Edited by Robert AlterFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060951931Author Ed J PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 422g

One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679433132Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 960Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)...

'The Observer' described Anne Ridler as 'one of the best poets of her generation.' Her first book, 'Poems', was published in 1939, and her work developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the day - MacNeice and Auden, but also Durrell and Watkins...

"Nothing Like Love" is a collection of love poems by one of Britain's most popular and highly acclaimed poets. Jenny Joseph is known mainly as the author of "Warning", her internationally renowned dramatic monologue in which a middle-aged character talks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375007Author Alice Paalen RahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has lived. Snow Approaching On The Hudson is a collection of poetry that moves back and forth across the country...

A beautiful collection of poems from bestselling author Louis de Bernieres.From the very start of his writing career Louis de Bernieres has loved poetry. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns to this first love with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692053553Author Zachry K. DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Zachry K. DouglasPublisher Zachry K. DouglasWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997426571Author Pierre a JeantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Jeanius Publishing LLCPublisher Jeanius Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133858Author Joshua BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Dana Gioia has been hailed for decades as a master of traditional lyric forms, whose expansive and accessible poems are offerings of rare poignancy and insight. In Meet Me at the Lighthouse, he invites us back to old Los Angeles, where the shabby...

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace-and, in doing so,...

The poems and images are all original and from open competitions begun in 2018. They address the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of the authors as they express themselves concerning their emotions and experiences. Over a million children and family...

An extraordinarily ecclectic selection of poetry evoked by 'La Serenissima', including poetry from Longfellow, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Oscar Wilde, Pushkin, Rilke, Brodsky, Dante and Derek Walcott. With a scintillating...

One of the most versatile and rebellious poets in Poland, Swietlicki takes us into streets, cafes, rooms, and conversations where - with his signature dark glasses - he ponders metaphysical questions in the minutiae of daily life. These are poems about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473623562Author Gwyneth LesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Outspoken Ink PressPublisher Outspoken Ink PressWeight(grams) 109g

Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds...

This is the first collection of essays to focus on feminist philosophy of mind. It brings the theoretical insights from feminist philosophy to issues in philosophy of mind and vice versa. Feminist Philosophy of Mind thus promises to challenge and inform...

In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential...