Poetry

MadC: Street to Canvas is the first monograph on the world-renowned contemporary artist and muralist MadC (Claudia Walde), whose practice moves dynamically between the street and the studio to capture the energy of painting and test the heights of its...

This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is intended to be broadly representative of saints' lives in Middle English and of the classic...

Leo Moran - connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions - sets out from the splendid isolation of his Glasgow apartment for Biggnarbriggs Hall in Kirkcudbrightshire. He soon finds himself haunted by visions after a local girl mysteriously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861516732Author Jenny SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486415833Author Jelaludin RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more...

William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the...

From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet spellbound by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. When You...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528997409Author Holly JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451474346Author W.H.D. RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 197g

In "... and then she ate him" Denbigh's wickedly beautiful writing holds up a distorted mirror to the world. Deftly weaving the queer experience alongside tales of friends and strangers, Tom toys with myth, devilish humour, and absurdity to...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935835257Author Harry CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Quale Press LLCPublisher Quale Press LLCWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Winner of the 1987 American Book Award The Essential Etheridge Knight is a selection of the best work by one of the country's most prominent and liveliest poets. It brings together poems from Knight's previously published books and a section of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922120175Author Jaime Luis Huenun VillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Digital Publishing CentrePublisher Interactive PublicationsWeight(grams) 330g

"Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged", Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his...

Ranging over place, memory and history, Amit Chaudhuri's new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named and eaten, meals remembered, and matches these with meditations on...

This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. "The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman "Dovetails bittersweet poetry...

"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us,...

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) was an American writer, often referred to as 'The Father of American Literature'. Among his most notable works include his novels, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Less well known, but...

Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sandor Marai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945028144Author Nichole PerkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Publishing Genius PressPublisher Publishing Genius PressWeight(grams)...

This bilingual collection of both Maragall's poetry and prose has been edited and translated by Ronald Puppo, a research fellow and translator at the University of Vic. His keen eye and expertise on Maragall comes across in droves as he takes what are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143116967Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab...

Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann's poems...

Ethna MacCarthy (1903-59) was a Scholar and a First-Class Moderator at Trinity College Dublin where she taught languages in the thirties and forties before studying medicine. Perhaps best known to posterity for her relationship with Samuel Beckett and...

sad thing angry is an expression of the inexpressible: the fracturing of a relationship with living.In this unique and brilliant debut, Emma Jeremy finds new language to navigate a journey where guilt and hope, grief and isolation live side by side. In a...

A.R. Ammons produced some of the twentieth century's most innovative and enduring poetry, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Volume I follows Ammons's development through his National Book Award-winning Collected Poems 1951-1971 and his...

Emyr Humphreys, poet, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist, is one of the foremost literary figures in Wales. For over 40 years he has interpreted the world of Welsh-speaking Wales, sympathetically but without sentiment.About the AuthorEmyr...

A number of the poems in this collection by Michael Hofmann show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whose relationship with his son was also the principal subject of his celebrated 1986 collection, Acrimony, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941667132Author Gustave DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Omo PressPublisher Omo PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 3mm

Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In Like,...

"We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion."-New York Times Book ReviewAbout the AuthorAdrienne Rich (1929-2012) was an award-winning poet, influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063032491Author Margaret AtwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades. The new work here pursues the themes of his earlier Bloodaxe collections Stolen Light: Selected...

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is best known as a cultural and literary critic, as one of the primary forces behind the development of queer and gay/lesbian studies, and as author of several influential books: Tendencies, Epistemology of the Closet, and Between...

The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316420747Author Nikita GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of...