Poetry

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 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 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

As a young man Pope shot to fame with The Rape of the Lock, a light-hearted mock-heroic poem about a trivial society scandal, still his best remembered work. Wit and irony, dazzling technical mastery - he perfected the English heroic couplet - acute...

The statistical analyses that students of the life-sciences are being expected to perform are becoming increasingly advanced. Whether at the undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate level, this book provides the tools needed to properly analyze your...

In his third poetry collection, Itch, Zane Frederick scratches memory. He pokes the bear of his past. Ventures further out into its woods to see what still lurks and what needs to be settled. Itch captures the complexity of revisiting memory and the...

Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also one of Africa's most famous poets. A co-founder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized by many as one of the most significant figures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711473Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075392Author Robert NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Children's Literature) 2015 and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Children's Picture) 2015 and Children's Book Committee Award (Poetry)...

This landmark book brings together, for the first time in English, translations of 75 poems by the renowned Portuguese poet Maria Teresa Horta. It contains selections from each of her 21 volumes of poetry published over a writing career that spans six...

The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique snapshots of eleventh-century Constantinople at the height of its splendor and elegance. Their collections, aptly called "various verses," greatly range in...

Hive is a remarkable debut collection of poems about brutality, exaltation, rebellion, and allegiance. Written in the voice of a teenage Mormon girl, these poems chronicle an inheritance of daily violence and closely guarded secrets. A conflicting cast...

"Third Wish Wasted" is a book concerned with our wishes and desires. Belonging to a world between real and imagined folklore, the poems are by turns celebratory, humorous and beguiling, and there are bittersweet contemplations of youth, beauty and fame...

Poetry selection in the popular Cranes Classics series, well known poets produced in small 64 page hardbacks with attractive covers.Book InformationISBN 9781912945153Author Anthony EyreFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Mount Orleans PressPublisher...

Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but over the past four decades became known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and was Spain's most widely...

Features five key figures of Australian poetry - Kenneth Slessor, Roland Robinson, David Campbell, James McAuley and Francis Webb. Les Murray's introductory essays to the poets evoke the writers' circumstances, the trajectories of their very different...

Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earliest childhood memories to the surprises that come with age.About the AuthorLinda Pastan (1932-2023) was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842331699Author Laura RidingFormat PaperbackImprint Trent EditionsPublisher Trent Editions

"The Cut of the Light" draws extensively on Jeremy Hooker's poetry written over a period of forty years. It shows the development of a poetry concerned with nature and history and the spirit of place, and comprises both formal variety and the 'art of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856630Author Mary Soon LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593826Author David WagonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912146Author Jack McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115249Author Paul HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 241g

This work draws on John Ash's four collections and is virtually a Collected Poems. Among contemporary British poets he is known for his wit, formal ambition and his Byzantine range.John Ash's "The Goodbyes" won the Poetry Book Society Choice, 1982, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714814Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907133862Author Maz HedgehogFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Dog Horn PublishingPublisher Dog Horn Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913212315Author Jidi MajiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vagabond VoicesPublisher Vagabond VoicesWeight(grams) 130g

A moving and kinetic collection of poetry from the 2018 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Monica YounUnexpected, unusual, and stirring, the poetry of Rosalie Moffett “takes us to the brink of a world continually unmaking itself,” (Georgia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179000Author Benjamin FondaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110072Author Dan FanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997129762Author Micah BournesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sideshow Media GroupPublisher Sideshow Media GroupWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613258Author Tom ToporFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

"The Canto General", thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.About the AuthorJack Scmitt is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese at California...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957172296Author Richard SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999674229Author Amir DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books