Poetry

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...

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This exploration of poetry and national life in Poland and Russia from 1917 to the present also offers a comparative study of the poetry of the Eastern and Western sides of the "iron curtain," and an examination of these topics in light of...

In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poets. But like the haiku before it, the ghazal has been widely misunderstood and thus most English ghazals...

Look, Clare! Look! is the story of a year. When Clare Pollard set off on a six-month world trip, she wanted to write a long poem which engaged with what she saw and felt during her travels. On her return, she discovered that her father was seriously ill,...

In The Emma Press Anthology of Love, that familiar four-letter word takes on a world of meanings. Love is written across the sky for the whole world to see, and whispered to a partner at the bus stop in the rain. Love is transcendent and love is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735928Author J. O. MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 7mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998631479Author Cecilia WolochFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102634Author Author Torquato TassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...'A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in...

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The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to...

From this acclaimed American poet come three gorgeous poetic sequences. In the first, "Eden and After," Gregory Orr retells the story of Adam and Eve. The second sequence, "The City of Poetry," evokes and explores a visionary metropolis where "every poem...

Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, "Touch", written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics - a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war - with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367889Author Michael SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

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Born in Hampshire in 1918, Martin Bell was the leading member of the 'lost generation' of English poets whose careers were interrupted by the War. He was a prominent member of The Group during the fifties, and a major influence on younger poets like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995496040Author Hafez- Shams-Ud-Din Muhammad ShiraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780005584Author Amy LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

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Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530068Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

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Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in...

The Waste Land (1922) is a poem by T.S. Eliot. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Eliot took a leave of absence from his job at a London bank to stay with his wife Vivienne at the coastal town of Margate. He worked on the poem during these months...

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...

Wild Honey, Tough Salt offers a prismatic view of Earth citizenship, where we must now be ambidextrous. The book takes a stern look inward calling for sturdy character and supple spirit, and a bold look outward seeking ways to engage grief trouble. The...

Penelope Shuttle's collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory. These are poems drawn from the flipside of experience, undermining and rebuilding syntax in order to...