Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598685Author Don PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Burns Singer spent the 1950s gaining and losing a reputation. He became an insider, notably as a writer of "Times Literary Supplement" leaders, yet considered himself an Outsider, alienating a generation of young editors and fellow poets. His attitude to...

Ian Abbot's life was one devoted to poetry, but at the time of his early death in 1989 he had published only one collection of poems. To the complete text of that first book, 'Avoiding the Gods', this new volume adds poems from Abbot's archives in the...

River that must turn full after I stop dying Song, my song, raise grief to music Light as my loves' thought, the few sick So sick of wrangling: thus weeping, Sounds of light, stay in her keeping And my son's face - this much...

Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern printed books. While it contains lavish selections from important poets such as Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876501Author Rufus MufasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636408415Author Bhavini BhargavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Introduced by Ali Smith, the title of this group of poems about people is taken from Morgan's poem 'Pelagius', the theologian who is a kind of alter ego. Morgan has the ability to enter into so many lives: the blind hunchback of 'In the Snack-bar',...

In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium CE, Beowulf is an Old English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595318Author Natalie Scenters-ZapicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful imagery and timeless insights about love, life, and human nature. This elegantly designed pocket edition features all 154 of the...

Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan...

A painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927-2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan; at the war's conclusion, he returned to the mainland. Having survived persecution at home, for two decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614096Author Fernando PessoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 135g

Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of Seedtime, his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "notes,"...

Robert Henryson is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the 'Moral Fables'is distinctively that of his place - Scotland - and his chosen tradition. His debt to Chaucer, from whom his best-known...

Later That Day contains new works of gratitude and elegy. At once lyrical and direct, these poems take place in Glasgow, Auckland, the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, and above all amid the clear light and bare, fertile islands of Orkney. They look to...

These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God", remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today -...

A crackling, moving new collection from one of America's greatest living poets. In over twenty-six original books, the poems of John Ashbery have long served as signposts guiding us through the delights, woes, hypocrisies, and uncertainties of living in...

Romania allied itself with the Nazis in the Second World War to protect itself from the Soviet Union and to promote its own brand of fascist nationalism. When George Tomaziu, who had spent the 1930s preparing for a career as an artist, was invited to spy...

In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim...

The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life. "Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read...

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998438153Author Lee MartensFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Secret Midnight Press LLC.Publisher Secret Midnight Press LLC.Weight(grams) 127g

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021An NPR Best Book of 2021An Electric Literature Best Poetry Book of 2021A Dennis Cooper Best Book of 2021In Hoarders, Kate Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in...

Introduction by Jonathan Edwards. William Henry Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. He was also a traveller and adventurer, often living on his wits as a tramp and itinerant labourer. After a serious accident while attempting to board a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816511136Author Joy HarjoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street - these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, "Sadness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000182Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804390863Author James YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Lines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection...

Winner 2004 International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry. Featuring "La Tierra Giro para Acercarnos" (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation of selected poems and prose by Venezuela's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781854115324Author James MethvenFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales...

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...

John Ashbery is known foremost as a poet, but he has been creating collages for nearly as long as he s been writing poetry. He began working in the medium when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, more than seventy years ago. Now, for the first time ever,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615961835Author Annette Spaulding-ConvyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces--from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to...

Strictly No Poetry, Mathews' fourth volume of poetry, follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen 1977), Minding Ruth (Gallery 1983) and According to the Small Hours (Cape 1998), and has been long awaited. In these forty-eight remarkable individual poems and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419679995Author Jarek ZawadzkiFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...