Poetry

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically...

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism,...

Bill Manhire, by trade a medievalist and by vocation a poet,has - like those writers who invented and developed English poetry - helped to make something charged and original out of his landscapes (including Antarctica) and his language. He was New...

The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes. Now editors Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson bring a radically new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218154Author Uljana WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry BooksWeight(grams) 229g

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725287389Author Jefferson HoldridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Pretend You Don't Know Me brings together in one volume the best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems. It introduces this popular South African poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004285Author Lorna CrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993395741Author Jessica PhibbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint STA BooksPublisher STA Books

An exciting and eagerly anticipated full-collection debut from a hugely talented poet. "Exuberantly raw and playful, Samantha Walton's first collection Self Heal engages passionately with questions of identity, consumerism, gender, and humanity's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916114142Author Mohan RanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

Six Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916408623Author Stephanie ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Cynefin RoadPublisher Cynefin RoadWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm *...

In "Your Name Here", a title suggested by bullfight posters hawked to tourists who then fill in their name as "terero", John Ashbery continues to examine preoccupations of age, loss, childhood memories and how the magic of dreams can transform daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561377Author Jane RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination - a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648087847Author Nessa O'MahonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 281g

States of Happiness, Suzanne Batty's second full-length collection, begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister. This explores their relationship from shared birth to her twin's early death from Friedreich's ataxia, a rare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528986922Author Claire S. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

From its opening page - a refugee's first sight of England - Changes of Address presents a journey through our times, a search for the meaning of 'home'. With its humour and deep honesty, its vivid storytelling, its sense of history and brilliant...

Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. In the title-poem of his latest collection - which illuminates the themes of the whole book - the lovers are a...

At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: 'Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers.' COMING TO AGE is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781720271Author Phil (Ed) BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

This selection of Kim Seung-hee's most recent poems is drawn half from her ninth collection, Hope is Lonely, and half from her tenth collection, Croaker on a Chopping Board. Focusing on humanity's utter fragility through, among others, the themes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565061Author Matt AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)-the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets-has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061136023Author Frieda HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

In 1970, In Rock marked the studio arrival of Deep Purple MKII. When it came to making a follow-up, times were turbulent and divisive, so much so that there were doubts as to whether Deep Purple would even last! Sandwiched between In Rock and Machine...

In this second anthology introducing contemporary Baltic poetry, we meet the younger generation of Latvian poets who started writing and publishing after the country gained independence following the disintegration of the Soviet Union of which it had...

Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth's poetry...

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.About the AuthorJohn Alvis is Professor of English at the University of Dallas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307588Author Patricia DoneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596315Author Taneum BambrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

CLICK & COLLECT is a sequence of poems that explores the shape and shaping of consumerism, internet culture, queerness and emotion. How do we brand the world around us and how does it brand us? Across lyrics and half-story-poems, CLICK & COLLECT gives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954316Author Gary AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140442496Author N. SandarsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 161gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525378Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...