Poetry

Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism...

In this spellbinding debut, Los Angeles-born poet Janel Pineda sings of communal love and the diaspora and dreams for a liberated future. Lineage of Rain traces histories of Salvadoran migration and the US-sponsored civil war to reimagine trauma as a...

Robin Laing - songwriter, poet, performer - takes the reader on a lyrical tour of the history and lore surrounding Scotland's national drink. His writing depicts whisky in its many guises; be it a warm comfort on a winter's night, the perfect...

Fiery, feminist and funny, Darling, It's Me is the first collection by Norwich-based writer and academic Alison Winch. Winch combines refreshing explorations of marriage and motherhood with re-imaginings of Chaucer's Wife of Bath and rebuttals to the...

Elegy turns into affirmation, `binding the pulse / back into the body', in this new collection by Eric Gregory Award-winning poet Roger Garfitt. Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to good effect. The Action reveals the individual character...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387237Author R H BlythFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 24mm

Khairani Barokka's first full poetry collection, Rope, is a spellbinding and impressive debut, kaleidoscopic in detail and richly compelling. With a meticulous artist's instinct, these finely-tuned poems ask urgent questions about our impact upon the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956686Author Jonas ZdanysFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593321409Author D. NurkseFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dartmoor); and a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. Grimspound is a four-part work combining prose...

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...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of...

Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States' most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534806Author Ange MlinkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 159g

Glazova invites us to perceive the unfolding natural world with all our senses-a bee, a swamp, the icy north-and to consider our place in it. Her concise and sensory poems elucidate not just a moment in nature, but the flow of time. A snow-covered...

Cargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transported...

By one of Greece's foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi's second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972164474Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525361Author Charles WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913432607Author Stella DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Stairwell BooksPublisher Stairwell BooksWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528911Author Frederick SeidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532161Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989641593Author Reagan MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

In her fourth collection, Exile and the Kingdom, Hilary Davies embarks on pilgrimage - poetic, religious, psychological. Using a dazzling interplay of narrative and lyric line, she travels through real and imagined territory in search of answers to the...

A lot can happen between the first sip of coffee and the last taste of whiskey.Coffee Days, Whiskey Nights is a collection of poetry, prose, and aphorisms that juxtaposes the hopefulness a brand new day can bring with the lingering thoughts that keep us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596704Author Michael WiegersFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

From acclaimed musician Alicia Keys, author of the memoir More Myself, comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her growth as a person, a woman, and an artist."All my life, I've written these words with no thought or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451493774Author Philip LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528971188Author Carly Louise MacRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Returning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979, where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life, Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems, written at a rate of about 10 a day: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967600390Author Dean YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Hollyridge PressPublisher Hollyridge PressWeight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809850Author Patrice VecchioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627317Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

The twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634720Author Kajal AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon PressWeight(grams) 58g

The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', boasted its most important poet, Philip Larkin, of his and Kingsley Amis's influence. That Larkin's boast proved...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space...

At its heart a collection of love poems, Because we could not dance at the wedding is about coming out, coming to terms and settling down.Through a series of vividly observed scenes - from single- bedded student flat to registry office waiting room, from...

Eugenio de Andrade is the author of twenty-nine volumes of poetry as well as numerous children's books, collections of prose writings, and translations into Portuguese of Sappho, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Yannis Ritsos. Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry...

'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' Olivia Laing In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and...