Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433312Author Anna Gurton-WachterFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 197g

Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time "This is a book of longing, yes, and also spiritual discernment, political awareness, historical memory, and deep intimacy."-Carolyn Forche In...

Fragile body and the world around me delves into my subconscious but then conscious mind. It is about the long-fought battles with chronic diseases that many never come to see or understand. It has brought me some great success in love and also some...

As a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award-winning The Circle...

Written in 1942, F. S. Smythe's British Mountaineers recounts the history of a sport to tell the story of the brave, the triumphant and the tragic. Using the process of erasure, Faye Latham reshapes Smythe's text into a unique, dream-like tale told from...

Raving Beauties women's theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and professional learning curve. Hallelujah for 50ft Women...

A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest...

Elaine Feinstein is a poet of lyrical directness. That clear, passionate voice which she brought to her celebrated translations of Marina Tsvetayeva's poetry is her own. She writes about love, loss, jealousy, the fear of abandonment. Her powerful rhythms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486782Author GrafinFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

For Tom Pickard poetry is a free, and freeing, space. His pen 'demands / complete autonomy', and finds it as it explores both harsh and lyrical realities with a northern working-class sensibility. A lifelong counter-cultural figure, Pickard transcends...

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and...

Morrissey is the winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 1990 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. This book of poems is organized around the theme of the journey: from communism to spiritual affirmation; from life in Ireland to life abroad,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740931Author Jack LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 164g

A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching ...

Spiritlands invites you into a territory that is at once individual and plural. On the one hand, this is poetry about a personal geography, an eclectic landscape, space in which to be oneself and welcome who one chooses to express hospitality towards; on...

A poet, at a desk, in a shed. A shed which is temple, bunker, study and look-out post all rolled into one.Not far away, in the surrounding West Yorkshire countryside, the local council have begun "peeling back turf" to turn a former cow-field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592119Author Ben LernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

From the author of I Find You In the Darkness, a brand-new poetry collection about love, longing, and one woman's everlasting connection to the sea My soul reminds me that I am a Mermaid. A woman who longs to be held by the sea... Beloved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335177Author Tony ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 161gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riach’s poems...

When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Södergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today she is regarded as Finland’s greatest modern poet. Her poems – written in Swedish – are intensely visionary,...

Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo's third collection captures events and stories told through the twentieth century, encased beneath an ancient, fragile sky.Book InformationISBN 9781800171435Author Togara MuzanenhamoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771680462Author Iain Sinclair ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Central Avenue PublishingPublisher Central Avenue PublishingWeight(grams) 246g

In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty...

Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarme is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to Ashbery. He had a quiet life by many standards, but in one respect...

In this welcome centenary edition of C. Day Lewis' poems, Jill Balcon has substantially extended her husband's own Penguin selections of 1951 and 1969, including not only his last collection "The Whispering Roots" (1970), but also vers d'occasion written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713086Author Rita WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 128g

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. Like Bits...

The ultimate subject of Maya C. Popa's stunning debut collection is violence. American Faith begins with its manifestation in our country: a destructive administration, a history of cruelty and extermination, and a love of firearms. The violence...

Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet to serve as US Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native American peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary poets into a national, fully digital map of...

This title is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though deeply rooted in the West Norwegian...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914275418Author Ashley MesciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Perspective Press GlobalPublisher Perspective Press GlobalWeight(grams)...

Compelling poems that celebrate language as it encounters the nameless variety of the natural world, from Australia to ItalyAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new...

Never out of print since its first publication in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's collection of prose poems is one of the best-loved volumes in world literature. Gibran's transcendent verse cycle follows the prophet Almustafa as he boards a ship bearing him...

To Abandon Wizardry, Matthew Caley's seventh collection, explores a world where it's harder and harder to tell what's real and what's not. Where our political and cultural reality seems so unbelievable, we search for a plot and find one that comes from...

"What a clear, insistent health there is here--as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world...

Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important of the woman Surrealists. Her work has gained more recognition every year since her death. Following the release in France of a 700 page critically acclaimed anthology (in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115751Author Grahame DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844018512Author Marian DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...