Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671596Author Abdellatif LaabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105350Author Jose Garcia VillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

In "Voodoo Excess," Jeremy Reed charts in poetry and prose the astonishing career of the Rolling Stones from the band s early days in 1962 to the 50th anniversary tour in 2012 and its extension in 2013. With great originality he examines why the Stones...

A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece's most lauded poets "Ganas skillfully melds loss with love. . . . A rich, rare view of a life spent in, or hoping to return, to Greece."-Publishers Weekly This is the...

In Late Shift at the Pickle Factory Mary Dickins presents the reader with an intensely crafted patchwork of stories, reminiscences, observations and whimsy. These poems are tender, sad, joyful, surreal and ridiculous and always characterised by Mary's...

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...

Richard Meier's first collection of poetry, Misadventure, won many admirers for its wry, wise and sharp-eyed insight into the minutiae of daily life. This, his second, Search Party, casts its net more widely - and looks at our experiences of being lost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913340520Author Eric SandorFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Clink Street PublishingPublisher Clink Street PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929918089Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 127g

What to do when everything goes up in flames? Summon up A Man's House Catches Fire, Tom Sastry's debut collection of poetry, with all its elegant, satirical and hurt-quenching power: here are nightmares and fairytales, museums full of regret,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912551569Author Gabrielle HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Conscious Dreams PublishingPublisher Conscious Dreams PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626029Author Kent JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264561Author Vitezslav NezvalFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870841962Author Jacques PrevertFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999763657Author Eileen JonesFormat PaperbackImprint Iron PressPublisher Iron Press

"Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder-a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question." -Kathy Engel This is about what grows through the...

First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977272Author Guido CavalcantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

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...

Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike. When Mehmed the Conqueror first wandered through the ruins of the Byzantine...

Enjoy the unmatched beauty of the King James Version combined with the readability of Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print (R) typeface, all in a Bible that includes over 73,000 cross references and the Apocrypha.In this edition, the literary...

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of...

The three works of poetry that constitute Tribunal were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and-especially in the United States-reassertions of white supremacy. As...

As part of Wakefield's centenary celebrations in 1988, the author was commissioned to do a modern adaptation of the Wakefield Medieval Mystery Plays. Simple vernacular speech is retained, spanning the Creation to the Resurrection. The music is by Andy...

The Working Classic is a collection of poetry, interviews, and essays with Aaron Kent. These diverse texts attempt to showcase how a gentrified creative industry routinely ignores working class voices unless that voice is an act of appropriation by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936919888Author Lynn MelnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint YesYes BooksPublisher YesYes BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807004Author Sam HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

In May of 1895 Oscar Wilde, the century's most dazzling man of letters, was sentenced to two years with hard labour for 'acts of gross indecency with another male person.' On his release he moved to France, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol: an...

The first bilingual volume of poems by leading Irish twentieth-century poet Sean O RiordainIn the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Sean O Riordain, among others. O Riordain's work has stood the...

For twenty years Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Brid, suffered from Parkinson's disease. These love poems chronicle the last two years of her life, her death and his grief. In Love Life, now available again in his Collected Poems, he told their story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877384Author William DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with others. This elegantly designed chapbook collects several...

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with others. This elegantly designed chapbook collects several...

"With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields--for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993165801Author Basil PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint C PaynePublisher C Payne

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1980s and 90s. His dual-language selection The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue was published in 2014, following...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881163619Author Trevor JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Miami University PressPublisher Miami University PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Philip Larkin was one of the most admired and loved English poets of the twentieth century. His Collected Poems has become essential reading on any bookshelf, covering his four published volumes and late work. But Larkin was a prolific writer in his...

While living in exile with his family on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, Victor Hugo wrote some of his greatest poetry and prose, including "Les Miserables" and two epic poems: "Dieu" and "La Fin de Satan". Dieu pictures the imaginary...

Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis...