Poetry

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912211784Author Ruth StaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Knives Forks and SpoonsPublisher Knives Forks and SpoonsWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm)...

ULSTER' S OTHER POETRY proves that the people of Ulster have never been humourless or dour. Far from it. With its sparkling variety of rhymes, songs and humorous poems from every tradition of the province, the book demonstrates that those who dwell in...

Making Nothing Happen is a conversation between five poet-theologians who are broadly within the Christian tradition - Nicola Slee, Ruth Shelton, Mark Pryce, Eleanor Nesbitt and Gavin D'Costa. Together they form The Diviners - a group which has been...

Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet of innocence,' and 'an example of the dangerous Male of the Species', his sly, witty and wide-eyed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917432Author Ellora SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666760071Author David C CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140587524Author Diane di PrimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998829036Author Francis PongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Song CavePublisher Song Cave

Reprint of the ed. published by New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. in 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780313210211Author William EmpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent themes in our cultural landscape, creating space for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800168862Author Jamie BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264428Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

This volume serves as an excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. Of the three groups of English Charlemagne romances, the Ferumbras group, the Otuel group, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999958404Author Bob ToyntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Hammerinn BooksPublisher Hammerinn Books

This is a little pocket book, full of humour - in both poetry and prose.Book InformationISBN 9781911584629Author Cyhoeddiadau BarddasFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Cyhoeddiadau BarddasPublisher Cyhoeddiadau BarddasDimensions(mm) 150mm * 110mm * 5mm

The hardcover publication of Blackbird Singing, the first collection of Paul McCartney's poems and lyrics, was an international cultural event-celebrated in concert halls, at literary festivals, and in newspapers and magazines throughout the world...

"You see me at my worst, you see me at my best I have been used, I have been abused I have been broken, I have been mended, I have been lied to. I have been called all sort of names I have been the cause of everything broken, so they claim Who am...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Arvon Foundation Prize 2010 and Fish International Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781915022059Author Jean O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Salmon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063137998Author Kate BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 186mm * 126mm...

CAR MA is artist and musician Alison Mosshart's first printed collection of paintings, photographs, short stories, and poetry. It is a book about cars, rock n' roll, and love. It's a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It's a book...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

Trawlerman's Turquoise, Matthew Caley's sixth collection, features various seemingly recherche elements - telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, muse worship, Balzac's coffee addiction and Thomas Merton's accidental electrocution amongst them -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956386458Author Edmond SheehyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Dalzell PressPublisher The Feldstein Agency

"Poetry," Michael McClure has said, "is not a system but is real events spoken of, or happening, in sounds." And for thirty years, whether in his early "Dionysian" lyrics or his evolving "bio-alchemical" wisdom, his work has shown a ferocious energy and...

Keith Hutson's debut collection, Baldwin's Catholic Geese, looks at the delight and heartbreak of being human through the lens of beloved music hall and variety stars like Hylda Baker and Frankie Howerd, as well as less celebrated, now long-forgotten...

"Shiki's distinctive vision and direct expression make a tone recognizably his own, conveyed beautifully in these pages' translations. We hear Shiki's haiku as the voice of a friend bringing complex news in a few intimate words. These haiku are drawn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934851470Author Robin Fulton MacPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Marick PressPublisher Marick PressWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Documenting the colourful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less than faithful lover Giton, the "Satyricon" plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly revealing the Empire's seamy underbelly. A host of...

In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt's Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses the modes of accusation and...

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904700Author CRISTIN O'KEEFE APTOWICZFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535605Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060907273Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386g

The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251904Author Eleanor HookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 138g

A topical and accessible collection, The Sugar Mile takes its readers on a journey from wartime London to modern-day America. In a series of monologues, each beautifully drawn and intimate, Glyn Maxwell details the effects and experiences of conflict:...

Dust Sucker is a remarkable new book-length poem by writer and translator Jen Calleja. Clear-eyed, expansive, and intoxicating, this exhilarating work deftly blurs disparate themes including time and mortality, communication and translation, intimacy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Reading the West (Poetry) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679755272Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was undoubtedly one of the most admired and influential English painters of the twentieth century. Cookham was a major influence on both his life and painting and his reference to the place as 'a village in Heaven' is...