Poetry

The poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for living, expressed in direct, unadorned language.Ads in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916211933Author Anoir Ou-ChadFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Eloquent Voices PublishingPublisher Eloquent Voices PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997035636Author Jay LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams) 152g

The Honey Gatherers takes its title from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describes the need to be marked, and marked out, by love. The search, the sweetness, the sting and the death of love, are all to be found in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771099410Author Madhur AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet internationally. His work exists in multiple translations in a wide range of languages and major 20th-century poets as diverse as Auden, Brecht, Brodsky, Durrell, Milosz and Montale have...

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before-sensuous,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437601861Author HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Ediciones Catedra, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra, S.A.

"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253779Author Paul RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783949977Author Sarah Fuller Flower Adams - Poetr AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528916004Author Gary Niel HitchingFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535728Author Robin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806915Author Willis BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631830013Author David PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Mountain Arbor PressPublisher BookLogix Inc

"Bloom and change your way of living," Xi Chuan exhorts us. "Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome." In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a modern-day master of the fu-rhapsody, delves into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995680548Author Cheryl PearsonFormat PaperbackImprint Pindrop PressPublisher Pindrop PressWeight(grams) 118g

A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life. Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words...

Bernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems, pastiches, sonnets, prose poetry, and epigrams to create Poetry State Forest.About the AuthorCalled "a consummate poet" by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780880013345Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757969Author John MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Combines the two distinct but related themes of love and romance, this giftbook illustrates texts with the images of medieval romances. It also juxtaposes words of love alongside images of gold jewellery and other inscribed mementoes. The introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578736396Author Makenna MisuracoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Jack Wild PublishingPublisher Jack Wild PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Scottish poet William Dunbar is usually considered one of the most important figures of fifteenth-century British literature, and may lay claim to being the finest lyric poet writing in English in the century and half between the death of Chaucer in 1400...

The Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new-found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She 'becomes' a Willow...

In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet scratched with Greek script in the waxen wings of a bouffant bee, and she thinks of the...

"Window for a Small Blue Child" is the story of the poet's experience of in vitro fertilisation, a sequence of poems underscored by the seasons and by the biological clock of a woman in her forties as she navigates the risks and choices, the drugs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807069059Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 160mm * 7mm

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-1821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Keats's work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800160316Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

"The Poetry Deal: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 gives us di Prima's vision as she looks back at a life lived truly and looks out at a society she still has hope for even as it grieves its failings."--David Nilsen, Fourth & Sycamore: A Literary...

The latest book by the Sarah Maguire Prize-winning poet and translator Brian Holton, Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds is a collection of Scots translations of poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, two of the most renowned poets of Ancient China. By bringing two of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251157Author Paula MeehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 141g

Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912498Author Pages MatamFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724095Author Emily BlewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 85g

"In one of the poems in this chapbook, Ricky Ray writes "living takes time, and I want you / to stay with me." It's just one tender, honest moment in this collection of deep, effervescent tenderness. Throughout The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself,...

An elegant volume comprising ancient and brand new poems - all inspired by legends from Wales.ReviewsCyfrol gain sy'n cynnwys barddoniaeth, rhyddiaith a nifer o batrymau Celtaidd o lawysgrifau canoloesol, wedi eu haddasu gan Martin Crampin. Llyfr anrheg...