Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070163Author Donald MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint AcairPublisher Acair

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430874Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented...

Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555277Author Sarah MatthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598357Author Various PoetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956049681Author Anthony KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Swan PressPublisher Swan PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive, compassionate, and necessary. Cascade Experiment charts the evolution of a poetics...

"As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692965863Author Madalina ComanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Madalina ComanPublisher Madalina ComanWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565054Author Nafeesa HamidFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 8mm

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398485075Author RT ChiwutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196418Author Rosalind EastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry. It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the...

A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud. Vital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 - a threshold year for William and Dorothy...

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's browAdown enormous ravines slope amain -...'A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th...

This title is from Africa with love. From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, ""Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry"" gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830386Author Lee SohoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

Heather Phillipson is an internationally exhibiting artist and award-winning poet. Instant-flex 718 is her much anticipated first book-length collection. She is already a widely published and anthologised poet. Her Faber New Poets pamphlet appeared in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944092842Author Robert Parke-HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Twin Palms PublishersPublisher Twin Palms PublishersWeight(grams) 1610g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398450042Author Anthony HollingsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly reimagining classical literature, wittily subverting epic works,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629036Author Mark RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize"Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer and trans perspective."-Publishers Weekly2020 Lambda Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596629Author Michael WiegersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526830Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 155g

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico-and directly from the Greek myth itself-Rita Dove explores this relationship and the dilemma of letting go.Pulitzer Prize winner; Poet...

Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of...

"Essays on Departure" is a gathering of 25 years' work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English, work from eight books, including a generous excerpt from the electrically erotic verse novel "Love, Death and the Changing of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977264Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Ec(o)logues is a Menippean Satyre (mixed poetry and prose, both serious and humorous) inspired by Virgil's Eclogues.Book InformationISBN 9781581771152Author Peter Lamborn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Station Hill Press,U.S.Publisher...

This is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognised as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In addition to a large selection of haiku, the book also...

"You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same." That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild...

Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and...

"A necessary reminder that whatever we are feeling, we are never feeling it alone." -Trista Mateer, author of Aphrodite Made Me Do It"There are defining moments in our lives that we often experience in certain places. It's in these places, that we feel...

A woman sunbathing on a demolition site in Bridgeton. Two women in a punch up in Glasgow's West End. A young mother breast-feeding in an art gallery. A working man stepping off a tenement roof on a snowy morning. City streets. Country lanes. A letter to...