Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916214897Author Henry BellFormat PaperbackImprint TapsalteeriePublisher Tapsalteerie

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638298045Author Patricia FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526986Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

'This is surprising, addictive poetry with delicious, seemingly wayward lines . . . McLane is a true Romantic, rooted in tradition while leaping and exulting in her originality' Irish Times Gathering the best of her first five collections, a 'sexy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944676240Author Jane ReichholdFormat PaperbackImprint AHA BooksPublisher AHA BooksWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486828305Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524880644Author Pierre Alex JeantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.Book InformationISBN 9780815607106Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589177Author Michael McClureFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life. The time before sleep acts as...

Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Belli's sometimes scandalous sonnets deal with life's elementals: love, death, sex, food, money, family, religion and...

The Five Quintets is both poetry and cultural history. It offers a sustained reflection on modernity - people and movements - in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, The Five Quintets...

Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and...

Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an...

Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340492Author Blythe BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 5mm

Cesar Vallejo is one the greatest poets of the twentieth century. His first publication, in his native Peru, was a book called "The Black Heralds", a fine collection of lyric poems in a largely symbolist style. This was followed by the book by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398460508Author Sarah MoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with all 33 of Rognvaldr's verses from the Orkneyinga Saga. While full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, the poems convey the skill, vigour and daring of the original.Rich narratives...

This anthology highlights some of the feelings and emotions experienced by teenagers - whether they have special and additional educational needs and disabilities, belong to minority groups, or just feel like the odd one out. It homes in on topics...

A thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Parijatapaharanamu, which he...

Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures...

In 1944-45, Capt. G.H. Davies served with the hard-fighting 53rd Welsh Division. He was an artillery officer in command of a battery of 25-pdr field guns and saw action from Normandy to the final surrender of Nazi Germany. Capt. Davies was present at the...

A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson (1910-1970) has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry is marked by an almost limitless range of interest and extraordinary depth of feeling. Olson's themes are among the...

The pioneer 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 lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly...

Poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards and losses of migration.Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout history. Most recently, Middle Eastern and African people...

Deborah Alma's debut poetry collection Dirty Laundry is raucous, daring and honest, drawing contemporary women's lives and those of our foremothers into the spotlight. It voices bold, feminist songs of praise: of persistence, survival, adventures of...

"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger stories of peoples and nations that...

With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life's dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the world stage-the war in Iraq, the 2004 Asian tsunami-or...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. The poems in Richard Price's Moon for Sale delight in linguistic play, turning over sound and sense with gleeful dexterity. But they are equally visually sensitive: Price's lyricism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789431988Author Alice Duer MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Oxford City PressPublisher Oxford City PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995767522Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787370050Author Michael DraytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot, the lore of Full Moons, weather myths and travellers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916226302Author Frances Corkey ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Spm PublicationsPublisher Spm PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

The last works of the last great classic European poet now available in English. In his 96th and final year, and with the help of the poet Jose-Flore Tappy, celebrated Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet finished two manuscripts-in-progress, one in prose and...

Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative writers in America today, Leslie Scalapino persistently challenges the boundaries of many forms in which she works - poetry, prose, plays, and more. This outstanding volume includes work from...

Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament in 1992-95 and his essays on cultural transition and...

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets'Taut, ferocious . . . This is a book about survival, and a welcome, confident debut' New York Times Book ReviewEmily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery,...

These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem - 'From the very limit of the...