Poetry

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 9781912196180Author Igor KlikovacFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995563537Author Francis CombesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Ness Owen lives on Ynys Mon off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family and motherhood, to politics, place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness' home, that...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727140Author Lynne HjelmgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 5mm

This is a book of poetry: half human, half emergency. It's about what it means to be alive and angry and afraid. It's about the climate crisis. 's about the coronavirus pandemic. It's about being in hospital and having kids and growing older and being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367346Author Michael McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 120g

The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political...

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...

As this gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the Poetry Translation Centre's first decade proves, nothing has invigorated poetry in English more than translation. Here you will find 111 brilliant poems translated from 27...

Making Luis de Gongora's work available to contemporary English-language readers without denying his historical context, Selected Poems of Luis de Gongora presents him as not only one of the greatest and most complex poets of his time, but also the...

Reader's nomination for Guardian First Book Award 2013Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trevien. Trevien's is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is...

The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities. Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah...

Dangerous Enthusiasm considers Blake's prophetic books written during the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time. His works are shown to be less the expressions of isolated genius than the products of a complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936671335Author Gary HothamFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035807499Author Shanaz HosanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398468832Author Danny HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767433Author Kevin PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865473287Author Soiko ShigematsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press

The voice in the headphones says, "you're rolling" . . . The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. It describes in intricate, prismatic detail one marathon...

Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628973402Author Esad BabačicFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive Press

Sana Abuleil presents a poetry collection of forgiveness, reflection, and self-love. letters to the person i was is a poetry collection about the past, the present, and the future. It is a compilation of every word Sana wishes someone had said to her...

Hecate-like, A True & Just Record invites us to the three-way crossroads of poetry, feminist rhetorics, and early modern studies. Kate Bolton Bonnici weaves together archival materials from the English witch trials, 20th- century poets and philosophers,...

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593727Author Valzhyna MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 128g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781555978020Author Jenny XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800743441Author Shree BhattacharjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980462586Author George SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint P'Rea PressPublisher P'Rea PressWeight(grams) 160g

"I close my eyes and see poems written inside my head. I open them to copy them down. Through photos I see the poems with my eyes open. These are the translations and transcriptions of what I see." - John KinsellaAbout the AuthorJohn Kinsella...

"Whichever way I take I meet myself returning." A poetic journey from the mills and moors of the industrial north to the meals and mosques of the Byzantine middle-east and back again. I Meet Myself Returning is about finding your feet in our convoluted...

In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author's aims. A commercial failure, this book was the first stage of a massive, lifelong enterprise. Six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138149Author Jimmy Santiago BacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Strong Shine Award Winner 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781915022011Author Rachael HegartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354078873Author Ashish BagrechaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Biplob World PvtPublisher Biplob World PvtWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...