Poetry

A comprehensive bilingual collection of twentieth-century French poetry Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781555978310Author Ilya KaminskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565139Author Helen CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

This selection presents for the first time the thirty year trajectory of an acclaimed Irish poet who has lived and worked between the secular and the religious, Eros and history, Ireland and elsewhere, be it west Africa after civil war, south-east Asia...

Othea's Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan's most popular works, is at the same time one of her most complex creations. Combining a somewhat Sibylline verse text based on a mythological figure with extensive citation of pagan sapiential...

A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr-an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee-traveled to...

"It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake."-Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge A biography in poems, leadbelly examines the life and times of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110492Author Robert J. BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596780Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781947544369Author Brian WilkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Revelore PressPublisher Revelore PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524983Author Ann DrysdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648447207Author Earthschool HarmonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Indie AuthorPublisher Indie AuthorWeight(grams) 127g

An outcast, an outsider, an oddball. With too much ambition and not enough talent, Saffron Jack has never fitted. Now, with the feeling that his time is running out, he needs to do something drastic to change his life. So what better idea than to run...

Place of refuge, place where we can be ourselves; place we long to escape from, place where we are confronted by absence and loneliness; shabby downtown apartment or idyllic country cottage. Like it or loathe it, home is where we do most of our living. ...

Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011) was a much celebrated Palestinian poet whose work is driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Born in rural Galilee, Muhammad Ali was left without a home when his village was...

Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398435575Author Sydney ContehFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This poetry collection includes verse ranging from the tear-jerking "Green Eye of the Yellow God" to the rarely-printed, bawdy "Eskimo Nell". Much borrowed and rarely returned, this is a very popular book for reading aloud in very good company,...

The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorRichard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.ReviewsRichard Sieburth, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature,...

In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world."If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible...

Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322112Author B AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Monarch Publishing, LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)...

Ireland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the lives of the Irish dispossessed, before as well as since...

'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' - Michael Longley. When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524524Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Since the 2015 publication of The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, Old Norse specialist Dr. Jackson Crawford has delighted readers with his English-language translations of Old Norse sagas and poems that tell the tales of Odin, Thor,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952411458Author Dan WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Spartan PressPublisher Spartan PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958331Author SapphoFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573611650Author Jules FeifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty...

Dorothea Smartt connects past and present, presence and absence in this rich new collection of poems. At its heart is a sequence of poems set in Lancaster that excavate the missing history of Samboo, an African slave brought from the Caribbean by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901233261Format PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 95g

In a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and 'magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs' of...

Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783949960Author Charles SorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In Martyn Crucefix's bold new sequence of poems, A Hatfield Mass, the sensuous shapes of Henry Moore's work interweave with the fluid, observant voices of the verse. From curves and spaces, words and silence, Crucefix constructs a secular Mass that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917302Author Roshni GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Already well known in the Forest of Dean for her verses, the late Joyce Latham's first book, Where I Belong, in which she looked back on her childhood days during the wartime years, was received with high acclaim. Now, in this second volume of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802872883Author Joy DavidmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

In the title poem, the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room. The room is a holding zone, a temporary stopping-place between memory and possibility. In the Quaker Hotel is full of questions about the world. Rooted in nature, the poems are...