Poetry

After his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593191361Author Tyler Knott GregsonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Daughter is a memoir-style collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles, begin to heal the trauma that lives in all of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595141Author Ghassan ZaqtanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint 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 9781838344450Author Robert BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Iron PressPublisher Iron Press

In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most...

Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new...

They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when--as has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Griffin Poetry Prize. Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780771080753Author Anne SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage...

Retrospective collection of William Stafford's work, celebrating the life and writing of one of America's most important poets. Recipient of a National Book Award and Oregon's Poet Laureate, Stafford engaged in a lifetime of writing, habitually composing...

In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377346Author Lakdhas WikkramasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Living with Joy forms a trilogy with Walking with Angels and Dancing with Love. The three poetry collections, all of which can be read independently of the others, describe Claire-Louise's journey through widowhood, at first surviving, then learning how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723296Author Robert GravesFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556909Author J Padraig DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 202g

With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the U.S. Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said:...

'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William Blake William Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062699831Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645204087Author Franziska PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Turtle PublishingPublisher Turtle PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780140588965Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841454Author Alasdair A. MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish...

While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692139837Author Emily ByrnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Telescopic PublishingPublisher Telescopic PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

Charting a steady encroachment of shadows over a relationship, Wright engages with the most profound subjects – love and loss, madness, grief, illness – and attends to them with a finely-wrought poetic sensibility, producing a soundscape of nervous,...

Lyrical and at times unsettling, The Somnambulist Cookbook explores the quality of disappearance, slowly breaking down as the poems swing from rogue sonnets to fractured prose poems, reminiscent of Larkin, but if he had gone abroad and listened to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413777140Author Lewis CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Methuen Publishing LtdPublisher Methuen Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916114135Author Ribka SibhatuFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

This book gathers four decades of writing, published in collections from Brunizem in 1988 to Pure Lizard in 2008. It maps the poet's trajectory, following her exile from her homeland, India, and her mother tongue, Gujarati, to the landscapes and...

The poems in Miriam Gamble's third collection journey surreally through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind, finding little, as they go, that 'can be claimed self-evident'. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527242Author Grace PaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops - the worlds they hold, the freedoms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788308083Author Melanie HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

In July 2013, David Thatcher died of a drug overdose in America. More than you were was written by his daughter, to try to understand what came after. The result is a striking collection of poetry which explores addiction, family politics, childhood...

"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and...

Set against the backdrop of a changing urban landscape, the poems in Tender Machines swing between the domestic and the surreal, charting motherhood, desire and an immigrant family's haunted inheritance. Mapping the lives of women and the lives they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538088Author Christopher ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of...

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739881719Author Anthony WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Beastling PublishingPublisher Beastling PublishingWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...