Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196173Author Jane RouthFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244661366Author Natalie SmythFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

In "Between Two Windows", his first book of poems, Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas, sonnets and pantoums stray palindromes, mirrored poems, anagrams,...

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 9780692887486Author Peter BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint KafPublisher KafWeight(grams) 245g

Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.”—Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556763Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 185g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993374074Author Russ LittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Wild Pressed BooksPublisher Wild Pressed Books

In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847771209Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher Carcanet Press Ltd

Robyn Bolam's new collection, Hyem, explores what and who makes us feel at home. Both people, and creatures - from whales off Kaikoura in New Zealand, New Forest cicadas, fish in the Thames, wrens, robins and starlings, to a climbing fox - face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993372100Author Ian BarclayFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint GlencairnPublisher Glencairn

The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.Reviews"Gilbert's remains the best aggregate translation of Michelangelo's poetry into English."--Saturday ReviewBook InformationISBN...

Lady Mary Wroth's private manuscript, printed here for the first time, shows her to be a great poet, more psychologically insightful, verbally sophisticated, and boldly original than scholars had realized. Her carefully curated and re-conceptualized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062853677Author GennaRose NethercottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244979348Author John MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 86g

Kevin Crossley-Holland's name will be familiar to readers of all ages for his historical novels, his re-telling of the Norse myths and his many volumes of poetry. Previously published by the late Enitharmon Press, he is a very welcome newcomer to Arc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938289262Author Maryam MafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hierophant PublishingPublisher Hierophant Publishing

Magnum Mysterium is Irish American poet Julie O'Callaghan's first collection since Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (2008). Her new poems have evolved from the early monologues - written in American demotic - to poems of heartache on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593085646Author Nikita GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917326Author Josie AlfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Truthful, sensuous and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim's poetry displays stinging wit and a...

Vergil's Aeneid was written in twelve books in the last years of the poet's life (29-19 BC). It was designed as a national epic of Rome and is one of the greatest poems of world literature. The tenth book, which contains some of the poem's most dramatic...

"The Way It Is" gathers many of the unpublished poems from William Stafford's last months, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as a generous selection of works from throughout his career.Book InformationISBN 9781555972691Author William...

This is the first English translation of Ranciere's study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110867Author Carla MellorFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press

A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a...

Two words, hope and doubt, dominate Not All Honey, the seventh full collection by Roddy Lumsden. These awkward cousins appear repeatedly as the poet 'fathoms the ingredient for happy' despite a tendency for the 'terrific melancholy' which named his last...

Winner of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. In the informal rituals of the tide remaking its tideline, of...

Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the...

Crevasse, Hong Kong-based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore,...

"My poems are an organic process that encompasses all aspects of my life experiences; they are my composite self and reflect my senses, in particular, things I see, hear and feel. I'd say most of them are not autobiographical though in truth they are...

Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955645815Author Marie -Pearl AddoFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Marie-Pearl AddoPublisher Marie-Pearl Addo

Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and...

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their...

One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose fiction alongside towering figures such as Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev started his writing career as a poet, gaining much critical acclaim and renown in that field. The title...

A collection in five parts, Susan Howe's electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths' inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also...

In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of power,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579216Author Jane WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm...