Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849525398Author Richard SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams)...

This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, the range of his achievements, and the difficulties in the way of appreciation. It does not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645940081Author Lord Alfred TennysonFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406712Author Steven NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 237g

Poetry Wales: Poetry Books of 2019Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections on middle age, on life's loves and losses.About the AuthorDavid...

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy 's writing speaks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671558Author Solomon Ibn GabirolFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156421652Author Carl SandburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732318526Author Dedan GillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inner Pathway PublishingPublisher Inner Pathway PublishingWeight(grams)...

Winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award A central figure in twentieth-century American literature, Robert Penn Warren (1905- 1989) was appointed by the Library of Congress as the first Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985. Although better known for his...

Written mostly in Scots, Rab Wilson's A Map for the Blind deals with topics ranging from satirical social commentary to sublime shots of everyday life with his characteristic wit and insight. From a poignant reflection into the 'black hairt' of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595899Author Leila ChattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722225Author Izumi ShikibuFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 10mm

At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021082Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard's long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry American poet Norman H. Pritchard's second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University...

"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Sharon Olds."-The Believer Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps,...

Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in Jamie McKendrick's astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and range from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain to the Belgian Congo and to the Roman, the Austro-Hungarian and...

The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780374603762Author Carl PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar,...

Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada ('Winter has landed') and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica; even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993044892Author Novid ShaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Novid ShaidPublisher Novid ShaidWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524545352Author Mike Hanmer WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

As a naive and innocent young man, Parzival encounters a group of noble knights in the forest. Overcome by the leading knight's shining armour, he assumes that the man must be a God. This key turning point in Parzival's life inspires him to seek to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888219432Author Fred VossFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Pearl EditionsPublisher Pearl EditionsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777980221Author Christopher TappFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Christopher TappPublisher Christopher TappWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Set in the Stalinist era, when Lithuaniais farmers lost everything n their villages, their land, and even their way of life n to the process of collectivisation, this book documents the life of the village idiot/anarchistic trickster Kukutis. Incapable...

Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles-the entryway to the afterworld...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910834763Author Alyson HallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet...

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

"It is always a real pleasure to read a translation which adheres to one basic, important principle, to reflect faithfully what the poet says. Professor Cook's translation does just that.... This is a literal translation, following the original line for...

Callie Gardner's debut collection Naturally it is not: a poem in four letters is a remarkable work written between the Spring Equinox of 2016 and the Spring Equinox of 2017. It is a work that moves between form, part lyric, part manifesto, part essay...

A selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems to inspire and be enjoyed by everyoneHere is an anthology of poems, chosen by Garrison Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594816Author Deborah LandauFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

Here, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.About the AuthorRobert Creeley (1926-2005) was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371603Author Alissa VallesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

**A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012** Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and even a few drawings, documenting the full sweep of his creative output, from his early...

"Dear neighbour, I promised to update you ... From your neighbour in another land" Last year, a community was forged through letters. Throught-provoking and full of character, this is the moment when neighbours a world apart write back. The beautiful...