Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312143572Author Hilda SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295g

"Extreme of Things" is a large collection combining new poems with a thematic selection from recent books. It explores the duality of existence, a track which runs through all Jenny Joseph's work, whether for children or adults, in poetry or prose. This...

A contributor to Donald Allen's seminal New American Poetry anthology, John Wieners was on the periphery of many of the twentieth century's most important avant-garde poetry scenes, from Black Mountain and the Boston Renaissance to the New York School...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772260Author Tawfiq ZayyadFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

This ground-breaking handbook explores the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education and allied support services. Incorporating the perspectives and...

A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair-recasting them as opportunities for growth.In this never-before-published collection, poet Upile Chisala grapples with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637461969Author Andrew ChatoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Kharis PublishingPublisher Kharis PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

As Marilyn Hacker has written, "Black, lesbian, mother, cancer survivor, urban woman: none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the counterpoint among them is often the material of her strongest poems."About the AuthorAudre Lorde (1934-1992)...

Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596582Author Amanda GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487005382Author Robert MacFarlaneFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,CanadaPublisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. Though Cavafy is wickedly satirical, many of his poems are located in a...

A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.Bullhe Shah's work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034887997Author Alan SeegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486282411Author Geoffrey ChaucerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995--2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997502121Author Patricia KeeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Neopoiesis Press, LLCPublisher Neopoiesis Press, LLCWeight(grams) 209g

Poets have been writing in Hebrew since Biblical times. One of the oldest tongues known to man, its rich simplicity has inspired poetry whose hallmarks are immediacy and passion. Although much of Hebrew poetry has traditionally focused on the religious...

Julian Bishop raises 'an army of stubborn weeds' in this dark but sometimes humorous Ecopoetry collection. From the bowels of Whitechapel in London, to the intricacies of jellyfish, Bishop brings to life the most important fight known to man: climate...

Vidyan Ravinthiran's second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. These are love poems that turn analytical, consider the world, and in which the pronoun 'we' aspires to stand for a larger community, including (if you like) readers themselves...

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956581907Author Keir ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint PuppywolfPublisher PuppywolfWeight(grams) 168g

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, "CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and...

'Take Hair' is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair' houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588140838Author Kuros AmouzgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853042Author James NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressWeight(grams) 112g

Seni Seneviratne's debut collection offers a poetic landscape that echoes themes of migration, family, love and loss and reflects her personal journey as a woman of Sri Lankan and English heritage.The poems cross oceans and centuries. In 'Cinnamon Roots'...

Geography and language collide in Soil, the debut collection of poetry by Tim Cresswell. His poems delight in the strange and are often situated at the cusp of the natural and urban worlds. A fox climbs to the top of a London skyscraper; municipal trees...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections. Sarajevo Roses is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move. On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman...

An elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love, life and creativity from award-winning poet and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, John FullerIn this personal and characteristically brilliant new collection from John Fuller, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692127216Author Melody LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wild Orchid Publishing LLCPublisher Wild Orchid Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486460215Author Henry Adams BellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes. The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Master follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307962003Author Matsuo BashoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486968Author Stephen DobynsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

From beginnings secreted in the folds of her mother's sari, transplanted to England to struggle with the rough musicality of Mancunian vowels, Raman Mundair, a Punjabi Alice, found no true reflection of herself, no wonderland, but mirrors which...

King o the Midden is back, and mankier than ever, with his cast of grimy guests, like Sergeant Snoddy (fae Kirkcaldy), exploding fairies and a hungry hairy mammoth. Brewing belly laughs for kids and adults alike, this collection of ridiculous rhymes is...

Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if only because it is so revealing. Through verse he...

In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother-daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth/story-telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534823Author Sandra CisnerosFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc