Poetry

2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor.In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through...

Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime, and that the title is apt. But the words are wistful, even playful, and that is true of some of the book's contents. The...

The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet...

Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain obscure literary and historical references,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553416Author Sue DymokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684129935Author Editors of Canterbury ClassicsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams)...

For the first time, the full canon of poetry from Scotland is available to readers in one volume. The Poetry of Scotland presents all the major, and many less well-known Scottish poets in a broad historical perspective from the fourteenth century to the...

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251980Author John KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 122g

Later Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one concerned with the living and the dead: voices of historians and moralists, voices of great (and not so great)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724071Author Paul DeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062095886Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting new voices. The theme of imprisonment is variously addressed: in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526870Author Adam ZagajewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957087061Author Michelle G StradfordFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint SunurchinPublisher SunurchinWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621642923Author Anthony EsolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

'Some Other Where' is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationships and between ourselves and the world. Matthews’s poems, which have been described by Bernard O’Donoghue as ‘life enhancing,’ embody those sudden jolts...

Brendan Kennelly's Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words writing the man. Words drive him into the cave of himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486849614Author Croland MichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956716078Author Luke LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Yellow Leaf PressPublisher Yellow Leaf PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Sir Thomas Wyatt, "the first great English lyric poet", remains one of the most popular writer's of Henry VIII's court, and the most romantic, given his entanglement with Anne Boleyn, which resulted - legend has it - in some of his most passionate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244284947Author Debbie BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Season 15 winner of America's Got Talent, Brandon Leake, presents his debut poetry collection. Brandon is the first spoken word poet to compete on AGT and to receive the Golden Buzzer award in the first round, going on to win the entire competition!From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522063Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 204g

'Death could drop from the dark as easily as song - But song only dropped, Like a blind man's dreams on the sand, By dangerous tides, Like a girl's dark hair for she dreams no ruin lies there, Or her kisses where a serpent hides' - from "Returning, We...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909163546Author Gabi GrubbFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Fantastic Books PublishingPublisher Fantastic Books PublishingWeight(grams)...

This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 love poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Love will be counterbalanced by Poems of Hate-a collection of poems on wrath, jealousy, revenge, and hatred-which is publishing simultaneously. About the...

This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Hate will be counterbalanced by Poems of Love-a collection of traditional love poems-which is publishing simultaneously.About the AuthorThis book contains the work of...

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic,...

Set before the events of the Reichenbach Falls, the formidable Sherlock Holmes is back. Tested to the extreme by cyphers, cryptic clues, and Professor James Moriarty - his greatest adversary. This is the last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels.About the...

In 1949, Ettie Stettheimer collected her sister Florine's poems in Crystal Flowers, a posthumous, privately printed, elegant edition of 250. In addition to these rare poems, this new volume offers formerly unpublished material culled from archives,...

Sarah Kirsch (1935 - 2013) is recognised as one of Germany's most powerful poets of the post-war era. She lived and worked first in East Germany, then (after political persecution) in the West, making her home finally in rural Schleswig-Holstein. Her...

Thomas Blackburn was a haunted and difficult man. His childhood was tormented by an obsessive father (an Anglican priest of Mauritian descent) who scoured his face with peroxide to lighten his skin colour, and an overaffectionate mother. The moral and...

Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.About the AuthorCathy...

100 poems to reach for on dark nights, selected by Julia Copus. These are poems to wander about in and commit to memory so they can be stored away in the deep heart's core; places to visit and return to at will. Poems that reawaken the senses and...

Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by class...

'Jam is for Girls' is Shagufta K's fiercely honest debut collection. Her work lays witness to the immigrant experience and gives voice to the women who made journeys into unknown lands through the eyes of their daughters. This is not a collection that...

An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal... Written between August 2017 and January 2019, these poems are concerned with the search for meaning, identity and truth, and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679725343Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...