Poetry

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537579Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 930g

Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to...

Fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author and contributions by Saidiya Hartman and Katherine McKittrick.A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry.In November 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that...

In "Red House", her third collection, Sasha Dugdale evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. She finds them at the edge of towns where superstores and allotments blur an older landscape, in Europe where emigrants leave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927257Author Annie DillardFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his...

In his nineties Philip Gross's father, a wartime refugee, began to lose his several languages, first to deafness, then profound aphasia. Deeply thought as well as deeply felt, these poems reach into that gulf to find him - through recovery of histories...

Following the exceptional acclaim for his first two books, Farley might have been forgiven for resting on his laurels with his 'difficult third' - but Tramp in Flames instead finds him driving his formal ambition and remarkable imagination harder than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940996356Author Psy D Christopher WillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Crisis Chronicles PressPublisher Crisis Chronicles PressWeight(grams)...

Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials-and are all anonymous from end to end,...

In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about...

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic...

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, over a decade later and after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to...

Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993319525Author Na'ima B RobertFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Sisters Awakening PressPublisher Sisters Awakening PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598531Author Katharine TowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395825211Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891785047Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,US

The poems in Handling, Jack Thacker's debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596483Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781781727003Author Sammy WeaverPage Count 30Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm...

D.H. Lawrence wrote the poems that would be published as 'Birds, Beasts and Flowers' during a stay in New Mexico. These poems are considered to be the mature achievement of Lawrence's abilities as a poet.Book InformationISBN 9780876858660Author D. H...

There are more statues of Robert Burns in the United States than there are of any American poet. Scotland's favorite poet has been loved by generations of Americans--from Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman to Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, and Bob Dylan. Now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977173Author Cinzia Sartini BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 468g

The Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Choice. The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.About the AuthorFred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents and grew up in Guyana, returning to England when he was a...

Daniel Sluman's bleak brilliance in the terrible is a masterclass in the power of poetry to confront difficult subject matter with accuracy and painstaking openness. These are rigorous and exacting poems, that dare to go to some of the darkest places and...

Shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection.Loretta Collins Klobah sends us a twelve-foot woman with red neon surging through her veins, who boldly and gracefully takes on the challenges of urban life. Keen observer and witness, our...

The More Extravagant Feast focuses on the trophic exchanges of a human body with the world via pregnancy, motherhood, and interconnection-the acts of making and sustaining other bodies from one's own, and one's own from the larger world. Leah Naomi Green...

Denise Levertov's Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob's Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967). This new compilation, beginning where her Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 (New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995680562Author Roselle AngwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Pindrop PressPublisher Pindrop PressWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780375710018Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Scientists and engineers are the great explorers of our age. Inspired by the work of leading research scientists, by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, space telescopes which allow us to see our Sun in wavelengths far beyond human vision, and by the Cassini...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762308Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692989937Author Kai SiedenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Our Nature ConnectionPublisher Our Nature ConnectionWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in Poetry A Literary Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2020” A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196692Author Joe Carrick-VartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

In 1982 William Bronk won the American Book Award for his book Life Supports: New & Collected Poems. Since then, he has written seven additional books, and Sagetrieb has devoted an entire issue to his work. Bronk is unquestionably a major poet--utterly...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian governments. This new translation...