Poetry

Leanne O'Sullivan was born in 1983, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English from University College, Cork in 2006. The winner - while still in her teens - of several of Ireland's poetry competitions, including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001394Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912894147Author Juliusz SlowackiFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785434266Author Lord George Gordon Byron, 1788-Format PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Deadtree PublishingPublisher Copyright Group LtdWeight(grams)...

Neruda's Spanish text is presented with in face translations in this comprehensive collection of his works.Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971Book InformationISBN 9780395544181Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Houghton...

Tongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, babble and blather, quibble and quizzical. And tongulish is spoken throughout Rita Ann Higgins's lively new collection. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218048Author Jacques DarrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486832852Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

From Erosion: SAN SEPOLCRO Jorie Graham ...How clean the mind is, holy grave. It is this girl by Piero della Francesca, unbuttoning her blue dress, her mantle of weather, to go into labor. Come, we can go in. It is before the birth of god...

These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between 'animal' and 'human'. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training their focus on the language we use to describe youth,...

Corazon is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn't enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her...

In her latest collection, Dorothea Lasky brings her signature style-a deeply felt and uncanny word-music-to all matters of creativity, from poetry and the invention of new language to motherhood and the production of new life. At once a personal document...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060928735Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538071Author Michel HouellebecqFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780375755217Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House...

Tess Gallagher's new poems are suspended between contradiction and beauty. Is, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and journeys toward discovering the full capacity of language. Gallagher's poems reverberate...

Peelin Orange is the definitive Collected Poems by one of Jamaica's leading voices, the current Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. These poems explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and comedy of being. Often drawing upon Creole dialect,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725597Author Tamar YoseloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645472377Author Roger HousdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Alistair Findlay's compilation of poems about social work shows the reader that the world they are living in is often shaped by poverty. Not much has been written about the stories that fill social worker's lives, and Findlay offers sad, sometimes...

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nichols's lucid verse translation. Expressing...

Figures of history and legend, contemporary figures, the poet's friends and neighbours, and some goddesses rub shoulders in these poems, which begin with the formation of continents and continue into the present. Many characters speak for themselves,...

In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another. A farmer, poet, activist, pastor, and mystic, Britts (1917-1949) has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780143133186Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374272630Author Ted HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811217484Author Takashi HiraideFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of...

What better way to start or end the day than by immersing yourself in a poem, thought, or reflection from the Eastern and Western mystics and sages. Passages featured have been carefully selected to feed your soul, awaken your spirit, and tap into your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527549Author Gjertrud SchnackenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596155Author Kelli Russell AgodonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

'Something is going on. Something is wrong.' - 'Night'Frederick Seidel - the 'ghoul' (Chicago Review), the 'triumphant outsider' (Contemporary Poetry Review) - returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and...

In Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milne's poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, `Blueprints & Ziggurats' and `Lichens for Marxists'. A Scottish poet working out of the modernist avant-garde, through pop and art rock, Milne...

A career retrospective of poetry and prose works by one of the under-recognized giants of French literature Andre du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398491199Author Simona PriloganFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This second collection of poems confirms why Tanya Shirley is so much in demand for readings. The stories she tells have their finger on the pulse of contemporary Jamaica in all its exuberance and brokenness. She tells these stories with a winning...

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839344749Author Christopher PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Bumblebee BooksPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943724Author Lenore KandelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957172272Author Gerda StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 120g