Poetry

The eve-of-performance dress rehearsal of Henry's send-up of a Victorian tragedy is running anything but smoothly as the cast constantly step out of character to bicker. Feuds simmer beneath the surface and the pretty heroine cannot remember her lines!...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438682Author Niyi OsundareFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 364g

Kathleen Jamie is one of Britain's leading poets. Her work is intelligent and subtle, her language inventive and refreshing. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead is a selection from her early collections, from times of change and travel. It reveals the generous...

Atlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight new and existing writing and to define/redefine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976545Author MR Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 227mm *...

In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship,...

I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples.A landmark dual collection by one of the most important contemporary Japanese poets, in a "generous and beautifully...

In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write "poetic" prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my perceptions of events are...

Mynona's self-styled "grotesques" inhabit an uncertain ground between fairy tale, fetishism and philosophy, satirizing everything from nationalism to philanthropy First published in German in 1916, Black-White-Red collects six bizarre tales by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880104500Author Michael Hedley BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486439594Author Japanese Classics Translation CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc...

This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote...

This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting...

Adelia Prado was "discovered" she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a...

Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle...

Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers and place it as an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are called Midsummer Cushions.' This 'cottage custom'suggested...

In Lasagne, acclaimed poet Wayne Holloway-Smith moves between internal and external landscapes with pace, panache and vulnerability. This short collection of poems is a defibrillator resurrecting a small part of the universe at each new twist: a silent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035802791Author Aretha TsangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440416194Author Aleister CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908236005Author Octavian PalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Istros BooksPublisher Istros Books

Through a personal, historical, and political lens, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to the collective experiences inherited through deeply-rooted ancestry, tracing patterns of movement and migration, sorrow and invisibility, and the resulting complicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062099426Author C WimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852449653Author Osb Laurentia JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 140g

Ezra Pound's Posthumous Cantos collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale's Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound's Italian translator, the critic and scholar Massimo Bacigalupo,...

In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet's greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, he was identified at any early age as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771435024Author Julia FehrenbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CCB PublishingPublisher CCB PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713239Author Gregory ScofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 131gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734035100Author Charles NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint The Song CavePublisher The Song Cave

Award-winning fantasy author Fran Wilde returns to her roots in Clock Star Rose Spine, which brings together poems previously published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and more with a selection of work never before published. In this collection...

The poems in WHALE AND VAPOR emphasize exhaustion--physically, mentally, and as an existential condition. Kim Kyung Ju playfully turns toward the lyric in this work as a way to reconcile himself with the contemporary world by engaging in dialogue with...

For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter...

From Good Stock Strange Blood:And, yet, each morning a fireheart grief in the body coming out of sleep. The listening to the smoke as if fills and weeps inside the chest, choking strength out hands weighted, dangling. We wonder where else it lives before...

This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous...

Wolf Centos is comprised of centos, a patchwork form that originated around the 4th century. The form is one which re-configures pre-existing poetic texts into new systems of imagery and ideas. The author is able to place poets in conversation with one...

Ryokan (1758-1831) was a poet, master calligrapher, Zen hermit, and is one of the most beloved poets of Japan. Instead of becoming the head of a Zen temple, he preferred the simple and independent life of a hermit. Ryokan's poetry is simple, direct, and...

"Yoga Heart is a tiny treasure to hold and to behold. Even the typography and colors are food for contemplation...highly recommended for people who will not only read the lines for enjoyment, but also use them for contemplation and right action in life."...

Up until the 17th century, the bulk of Korean poetry was written in Chinese, the language of poets, scholars and monks. This anthology includes 100 poems spanning over 1000 years. Lovers of Chinese and Japanese poetry will delight in these translations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2019 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781772012118Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Talon...