Poetry

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613600Format HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 328g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573611650Author Jules FeifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

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 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 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437941Author Bob BlaisdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853769Author Norah HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressWeight(grams) 70g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395400428Author Razi AbuzarFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint EphbooksPublisher EphbooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

For nearly twenty years, Charles Anthony Silvestri has penned texts for some of the world's leading choral composers and ensembles. This comprehensive collection of Silvestri's lyric poetry spans his career from the first words of "Sleep" to the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060757199Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986093821Author Chessy NormileFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry Review

The poems in this first selection from her whole work were written over a period of forty years. They convey a wonderfully energetic alternation of mood, idea, and experience that are part of her unique creative process.About the AuthorMay Sarton...

The Mining Road, Leanne O'Sullivan's third poetry collection, finds inspiration in the disused copper mines that haunt the rugged terrain around Allihies, near her home at Beara, in West Cork. Like remnants of a lost world, the mines' ruined towers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940953021Author Olga SedakovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 326g

From interactions with hot oncologists to life-threatening hospital stays to a really bad case of glandular fever. Whether a diagnosis is life-altering or treatable, a total surprise or painfully invisible, The Emma Press Anthology of Illness explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040850Author Bianca StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924690Author R MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 234mm...