Poetry

"Boy Thing is a thing of wonder. These are poems that negotiate anew the tender, hurt territory of a boy abruptly unfathered with every fresh reading; and that travel into the wonderment of becoming a father of boys. We are given a boy's-eye-view of...

"Stucky's verse has the power of the best East European poets--some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker."--Bill Knott "The yearning in these poems is awash in dense,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964998Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Thomas Kinsella is among the most distinguished modern poets. His work over fifty years has challenged and enriched the poetic landscape. Rooted in locality, Kinsella's poetry employs myth and modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricism to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735938Author Ollie SchminkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

British Library MS Harley 913 is known as the 'Kildare Manuscript' from the authorship of one of the poems by the Franciscan, Friar Michael of Kildare. The collection was written in the 1330s, in Ireland, perhaps in Waterford. It is chiefly known for two...

The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been...

Clare Pollard wrote her first book The Heavy-Petting Zoo while still at school. Its sequel is Bedtime: a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as cruelty and pretence, where reality and fantasy are blurred. These are cutting poems from the edge,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528903547Author Georgina JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869270Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 145g

"I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." -Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841287Author Kirstie BlairFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival - Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupery and Ken...

Agnes Meadows, poet: "Leaving Traces " is Mary Pargeter's second collection, and one which fully embraces life's tragedies, sorrows and regrets, as well as some of the things that amuse or remind us of nature's bounty. It is a collection packed with...

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros,...

'Geis' is a word from Irish mythology meaning a supernatural taboo or injunction on behaviour. In her long-awaited third collection, Caitriona O'Reilly examines the 'geis' in all of its psychological, emotional, and moral suggestiveness: exploring the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606600160Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 1410gDimensions(mm)...

Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young men about Rome during the late Republic, Catullus' urbane...

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single...

Linda Gregg's abiding presence in the world of poetry - she has been writing for over 30 years - is a living testament to the longevity of her art and spirit. All of It Singing collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book, including poetry...

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Bestselling author Deepak Chopra offers a beautiful book of poems that are deeply spiritual, heartfelt and touch on topics such as love, surrender and consciousness.A collection of poems by bestselling author Deepak Chopra that elegantly reveal the truth...

Here are Sarton's observations and reflections, many of which came to her as if by magic during the small hours of the morning. Along with the daily events of writing a letter, appreciating her flowers, taking care of her car Pierrot, these poems wrestle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956572523Author James Knox WhittetFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Iron PressPublisher Iron PressWeight(grams) 175g

Funded by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a programme of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme offers four poets a year the time,...

A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems-gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation-and how they are mapped onto us, the trees, and the planet.Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box...

In this large full colour coffee table size hard cover book, Kevin O'Dowd shares, for the first time, a collection of his poetry. It is raw and sometimes confrontational, but thought provoking and at times brutally honest. Kevin has his own style of...

Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. His most recent poems have presented a portrait of a...

Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien...

Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed "Native Son and Black Boy", discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910061459Author Rebecca McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Unthank CameoPublisher Unthank Books

An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic. In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he...

The first collection of the Beat mentor's long-influential permutation poems-one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature Written between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin's "permutation poems" begin with short phrases or sentences whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312537170Author Hailey RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598111Author Neil AstleyPage Count 16Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Of the three books collected here, the first is celebratory of Islam's eschatology (next-world doctrine), the second an homage to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the third written on an 'Umra in 1995/96 to Mecca and...

Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale-telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702262722Author Alison WhittakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646951867Author Lauren EdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Radiant Sky Publishing GroupPublisher Radiant Sky Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

With an introduction from poet Amy Key, this volume presents anew the poetry of Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth for a contemporary audience to read and enjoy. These carefully selected poems are arranged thematically under the headings of 'Love',...