Poetry

One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and enthusiasm, and above all a testament to his lifelong commitment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062854155Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726068Author Philip GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902121772Author Eavan BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Poetry Ireland Ltd.Publisher Poetry Ireland Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989804844Author Hiromi ItoFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Action BooksPublisher Action BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 175mm * 8mm

The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565252Author Evrah RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734456639Author Mark LeidnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Fonograf EditionsPublisher Fonograf Editions

Walking the Animals is a sort of travel book: it brings together inner and outer landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and the drought of the South African lowveld; landscapes of loss, landscapes of longing. Carola Luther tracks journeys between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997734324Author K C KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Traveling ElephantPublisher Traveling ElephantWeight(grams) 181g

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE was a monumental European presence - dramatist, impresario, novelist, essayist, scientist, administrator and extraordinarily prolific poet. This selection from his early and middle years includes the 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553157Author Kathryn DaszkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 101gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Brian Johnstone's third collection from Arc, to be published as the poet turns 70, is full of memories, from the poet's own past and from the lives of the people he has encountered over the years. Family, friends, places, landscapes, photographs, events...

The Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. With a nod to Mark E. Smith - late lead singer of The Fall and "the John of Patmos of his day" - Rob A. Mackenzie's apocalyptic nightmare vision encompasses the rags...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471219Author Stephen AddissFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849527330Author Jan Sutch PickardFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking...her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life of their own' (John Burnside). As in all her books, the...

In late August 2012, in the space of sixty-two hours, Craig Stobo lost half his family to sepsis and almost lost his own life, too. Whilst recovering in hospital and in the midst of profound shock and grief, he began writing poems to his late wife,...

Published in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life cycle, the book reflects Cummings's observations on nature...

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. Around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730874Author Rachel KannFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an...

Osman's writing reinvents poetry as an instrument for dissecting vision, language and power This extensive collection of poet Jena Osman's acclaimed work spans more than 30 years, gathering poems from journals and books long out of print. Her poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988444Author Eric ReeseFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711191Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Brenda Coultas's prose poems take us on a well-documented tour from the Bowery, pre-1900 and post-9/11, to southern Indiana, pre-automobile and post-genetic engineering. Her poems are sculptures pieced together from bits of memory and a montage of...

Joanna Seldon was diagnosed with an incurable cancer in 2011, and lived with it bravely for five and a half years until her death at the end of 2016. Some of the poems here are informed by her experience of cancer. All of the poems celebrate life.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034279389Author Sara I RaadFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

The most popular story in all of India and a classic of world literature is summarised in 728 verses in the great epic Mahabharata. Intended for independent study or classroom use for students of various levels who have had a basic introduction to...

George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079558Author Georg TraklFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Combining traditional forms and those associated with modernism, this collection focuses on love, loss, and the different ways in which people - for better or worse - can be significant to each other.Hannah received an Eric Gregory Award in 1995. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178645Author Elizabeth WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint 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 9781556590917Author W.S. MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This edition contains an introduction giving the necessary background and setting Book III in the context of the Iliad as a whole, the Greek text, explanatory notes and a vocabulary.Book InformationISBN 9780906515143Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739703608Author Linda PullmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Linda Pullman PublishingPublisher Linda Pullman PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911253303Author Jeremy ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Enitharmon EditionsPublisher Enitharmon EditionsWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

I Can't Sleep 'Cause My Bed's On Fire confronts a search for love against the stark, yet humanising backdrop of the psychiatric institution. Gutsy and honest, Emily Harrison's poetry is simultaneously cynical and optimistic. In her verse she suggests...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942782001Author Abbas KiarostamiFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Sticking Place BooksPublisher Sticking Place BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

The Death Poems: Songs, Visons, Meditations explores death in a range of forms - celebratory, visionary and contemplatively, using subject matter as varied as the dust heaps of remains that accumulated in 19th century London to the environmentally toxic...