Poetry

Wild Life by James McDermott explores the nature of queerness, the queerness of nature, and the queerness of 'natural' masculinity. In bold poems that root themselves firmly in the coastal landscapes of North Norfolk, a vivid and radical dialogue between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997035650Author Dawn P HarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436057Author Penny BoxallFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062101860Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm) 224mm...

Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251942Author Yau NoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 161g

Poetry to Confront Depression, Anxiety, Grief, and LossAre the usual anxiety books helping you find a path to healing? No? Try this collection of poetry specially crafted for those dealing with mental health and the people closest to them. Poetry...

Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poems available to students of all levels. The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling...

Cult of Two is the fifth book of internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Winter of Summers, Smoke & Mirrors, Bitter Sweet Love, and Dirty Pretty Things-a finalist in the Goodreads Readers Choice awards. His intimate writing style and...

Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthology Pablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062853677Author GennaRose NethercottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful...

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest in this intimate collection. Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a...

A follow up to the immensely popular #UntitledOne and #UntitledTwo. This year's anthology gives us more of the promising and established names in British poetry who have all shared the Neu! Reekie! bill. Many of the works are new, many are favourites...

Second Language is the fourth volume of work from the highly acclaimed poet Lisel Mueller. The second language of the title, English, supplanted Mueller's native language when she came to the United States from Hitler's Germany at age fifteen. But other...

Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (citation for The Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award)...

When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592164Author C.D. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800167513Author George RuddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627300Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

While Banjo opens with a clutch of fine lyrics, elegies and set-pieces, at the heart of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's new book is a remarkable tale of darkness and light, music and silence. Celebrating the centenary of Captain Scott's arrival at the South...

From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key...

From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Geoffery Hill's darkly impassioned lyrics, from Denise Levertov's incisive personal and political insights to Wendell Berry's lovely evocations of the divine presence in nature, Upholding Mystery offers...

The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) travels to Vienna to meet "bad-boy" genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer's subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591495Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 694g

In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the...

Sex Augury is a collection that practices divination with the symbolism of our radically changed and changeable world. Exercising trans poetics, C. Bain denormalizes the violence embedded in the most intimate strata of American life. Confrontationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868803Author Louise ColetFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Diamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free? Lorraine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915166142Author Julia HurfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Magic Flute Publishing LtdPublisher Magic Flute Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218086Author Meret OppenheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436095Author James NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence - from the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China - lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton. Herod's Dispensations shows his work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595103Author Alex DimitrovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, 'traditional' verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty", his first poem,...

Featuring a generous selection from four published collections of the poems of Christine Evans, this book also features her new work. Spanning two decades, the book opens with pieces from "Looking Inland. The visiting farmers in "Callers" with their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869327Author Andy CroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

A moving and kinetic collection of poetry from the 2018 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Monica YounUnexpected, unusual, and stirring, the poetry of Rosalie Moffett “takes us to the brink of a world continually unmaking itself,” (Georgia...

From beloved Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes the revised and expanded edition of her second collection of poetry. In Nectar, Chisala guides readers through a beautiful process of growth and renewal. These poems celebrate our always complex,...