Poetry

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...

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

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...

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...

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...