Poetry

Scholars who study early modern women’s writing have been eager for a full-text edition of the works of Hester Pulter since her manuscript was discovered in the mid-1990s. Now that Alice Eardley has brought together all of Pulter’s writing—poetry,...

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. 'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary author both at home and internationally,' Simon...

Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. Among many other awards for his poems, he has won the Mondello Prize (1980), the Viareggio (1987), the Montale Prize (2002) and the Feltrinelli Prize (2002) and the Cetona Prize (2007). A lecturer on French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140587005Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

Tua Forsstroem is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the...

Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her breakthrough came when she was still only 30 with her sixth collection, "Snow Leopard", which brought her international recognition, with...

Collected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.David Melnick's Nice: Collected Poems spans twenty crucial years of gay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845279028Author Guto DafyddFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Titled from lyrics of the song "Nobody Home" by Pink Floyd, this well-thought poetry collection touches on the subjects of loss, love, pain, happiness, depression, abandonment, war, good vs. evil, alcoholism, religion, and complicated family...

A Warning to the House That Holds Me builds on the milestones and mythology of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo to perform a deeply personal act of reclaiming power. Fully aware of the political significance of rejecting the dominant, Amina weaves together a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800168060Author Jimmy WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The Greek lyric poet Pindar is renowned for his poems celebrating the victories of athletes in the great games of Greece at Olympia, Delphi (the Pythian Games), Corinth (the Isthmian Games) and Nemea. Pindar's victory odes have the reputation of being...

Jenny King was born in London during the Blitz. Her parents, both teachers, encouraged her to write poetry as a child and overcame wartime paper rationing to make her a book to write them in. Her poems view the world calmly, thoughtfully. They...

War never stops. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881163671Author Jalal-Uddin RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Miami University PressPublisher Miami University PressWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725672Author Katherine StansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739902179Author William GeeFormat PaperbackImprint Out-Spoken PressPublisher Out-Spoken Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879071165Author Bonnie B ThurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Liturgical PressPublisher Liturgical PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838021139Author Joe Carrick-VartyFormat PaperbackImprint Out-Spoken PressPublisher Out-Spoken Press

Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for South Carolina Children's Book Award 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780525582090Author Vanessa NewtonFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Random House USA...

If you're going to let me burn, the least you could do is stick around and watch the show. You Only Love Me When I'm Suffering is a naked and powerful poetic portrait of love, heartbreak, and restoration. In this book of 200 poems from noteworthy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935344Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 255g

For all of life's adventures comes The Road Not Taken, which The New York TimesBook Review calls "a book that begs rereading."This beautifully illustrated companion is inspired by Robert Frost's perennial poem. Heartwarming illustrations of a young boy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071245Author Murray Donald SFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251065Author Padraig J DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945752223Author John WhitworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kelsay BooksPublisher Kelsay BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995496033Author Hafez- Shams ShiraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Beacon BooksPublisher Beacon BooksWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400040223Author Robert BrowningFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629197Author Lani O’HanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle's ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its former self, yet completely new. A...

C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910691243Author Mick GuffanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Tangerine PressPublisher Tangerine Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785436352Author Alexander PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Dressing for the Afterlife is a diamond-tough and tender second collection of poems from British Cypriot poet Maria Taylor, which explores love, life, and how we adapt to the passage of time. From the steely glamour of silent film-star goddesses to...

What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on everyone, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth...

As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from...

Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, by the language of journalism and spam emails, Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578401645Author Madalina ComanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Madalina ComanPublisher Madalina ComanWeight(grams) 236g

'Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and...