Poetry

The author offers lyrical, compassionate, and witty observations about turning fifty years old and facing middle age.Book InformationISBN 9780684832371Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 61Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Brenda Bullock, brought up on a council housing estate in Sheldon, holds up a mirror to Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s: she tells of the games played then in the streets: hopscotch, queenie, marbles, skipping, roller skating. She takes us back to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473680565Author Lucy GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Poetry Chapel PressPublisher Poetry Chapel PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Love Songs of Carbon is Philip Gross's 18th book of poetry, and is a coming of age - inhabiting the ageing body with a confident, inventive curiosity. At the same time searching, tender, intellectually agile, unexpected and erotic, this is poetry at home...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598906Author Sean O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986270376Author Alexis Rhone FancherFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Kyso FlashPublisher Kyso FlashWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527295018Author Francesca HalfacreeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Tutti Frutti PressPublisher Tutti Frutti PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788283310146Author Nat HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Nordland PublishingPublisher Nordland PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909632080Author Matt HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint The RialtoPublisher The Rialto

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800746985Author Kamalaathmika SaranganFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374614188Author Frederick SeidelFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Paterson Poetry Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781609808303Author Michael LallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975446850Author Sawako NakayasuFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Factorial PressPublisher Factorial PressWeight(grams) 107g

Arielle Estoria is known for her moving and empowering words that encourage women and all people to be confident in who they are, compassionate about where they've been, and loving about who they are becoming. In this stunning collection of essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993272806Author Oneness SankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Sankara House PublicationsPublisher Sankara House Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956779953Author Francis BriersFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Warriors of Love PublishingPublisher Warriors of Love PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426935Author Jonathan StarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 0g

While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .__________________________________________________Flitting from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408835Author A L AlgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm)...

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was...

Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910012635Author Rosemary HectorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Muddy PearlPublisher Muddy Pearl

Beloved theologian and bishop Graham Kings has been writing poetry for thirty-five years, with many of his poems used in retreats and preaching throughout the Anglican Communion. This collection brings together Graham's poems on a range of devotional...

The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry. The thirty-three 'hymns' are poetic accounts of ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380489Author Jessy RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793439Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035833894Author John Angus Walker-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure and romance. This splendid new translation - by one of the world's leading poets - has already been acclaimed in America. The original poem and W.S. Merwin's modern...

Doris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, and 'Shape of Time' is her eleventh book of poetry and her first full collection to be published in the UK. The poet suggests that it is composed like a piece of music in three 'movements'. The first,...

In this original and compelling collection, Nicoletta Arbia summons the voices of five classical women to recount their intimate stories, charting each woman's journey of renewal and personal growth. In retelling the stories of Persephone,...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." Now, Caroline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646815503Author Gareth EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Gareth EganPublisher Gareth EganWeight(grams) 163g

"The World Record" is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to Tuvalu, Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan. With this book...

A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, "the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and the organelle." "Once there were oarfish, opaleyes, olive flounders. Once the oxbows were not overrun...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679433217Author Arthur RimbaudFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 113mm...

In the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars - from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the Irish Civil War; from the romantic...

In Sawako Nakayasu’s first poetry collection in seven years, an unsettling diaspora of “girls” is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo-slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language,...

In his debut pamphlet, Max Wallis traces the year-long course of a love affair and all its constituent parts: sex and sensuality, longing and loneliness, desire and disappointment, heady beginnings and inevitable endings; in a world dominated by high...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528409Author Peter S HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783945757Author Ella Wheeler WilcoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Word to the WisePublisher Word to the WiseWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm...