Poetry

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 9780995563551Author Steve ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

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...

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...

Searing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths, Love is Colder than the Lake is a tour-de-force of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudon’s power and range.Love is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced,...

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 *...

The Immortal Memory remains the centrepiece of the traditional Burns Supper and although that rite might be seen by some to have had its day, the 'Immortal Memory' itself still retains its importance and prestige to Burns lovers all over the world. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015641Author Arna Wendell BontempsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982401Author Clark Ashton SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 152g

'Today, I shall have a few guests, Madame Sand amongst them.' It's December 1836, Paris. Chopin is living on the fashionable rue de la Chaussee d'Antin and the novelist George Sand on the rue Lafitte. But falling in love with Sand also meant falling in...

W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much of W.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625578174Author Enzo Silon SurinFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was born at Le Havre in 1903, where he was educated before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Between 1924 and 1929 Queneau was active in the surrealist movement and composed its manifesto, "Permettez!". Queneau...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804394243Author Lutfiya DadabhayFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers