Poetry

When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: 'There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we...

The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections-"The Shutters" and "Photograms"-by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759413Author William WordsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982197Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781771964999Author John BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint BiblioasisPublisher Biblioasis

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of...

A pocket-sized illustrated version of the Francis Thompson's classic poem, "The Hound of Heaven."Book InformationISBN 9780819212054Author Francis ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Church Publishing Inc

A polar projection changes foo we figure oot wir world. Shetland isna banished tae a box i da Moray Firt or left oot aa tagidder - ta scale up da rest - but centre stage. Christine De Luca's poetry creates a sense of the beauty and spareness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993407536Author Ron GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint LEB BooksPublisher TMB Books

"A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation." -Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019 Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071274Author Liz CowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317938Author Marge PiercyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

"Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style."-Boston GlobeAbout the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"The title of [Sarton's] luminous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112415Author Deryn Rees-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556435Author Desmond O'GradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 120g

A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers. This collection of poems delights in constructing a sensual Orient of the imagination, from the seven golden odes of Pre-Islamic Arabia to the fevered visions of...

Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy. Carole Newlands introduces her subject as an ancient...

Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry 2017 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889229778Author Jordan AbelFormat...

Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and...

Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt...

This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical...

"We are told there was a time when men were men and women were women You know men dressed in bowler hats or whatever hats of their choice And fine suits And the ladies too, along with their fine modest dresses No hair out of place ..." From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491890479Author Oribi CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style - its delicate, meticulous observation, great...

The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by name, in incantation, or described in ways that recapture their irreducible reality to a child for whom they are the totality of the world, they become a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956581938Author Cathy BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint PuppywolfPublisher PuppywolfWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094105Author Jalalu'ddin RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 529Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier...

So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.About the AuthorBesides being a practicing...

This groundbreaking, transgenre work-part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past-is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375915Author Szilard BorbelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771340Author Diane AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113g

This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"-the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853984603Author HatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint George RonaldPublisher George Ronald PublisherWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Pure Hustle is concerned with imagination - as a means of escape and of illumination, as destructive and redemptive. Its finely honed urban landscapes are shot through with myth, storytelling and the lure of transformation. Kate Potts' poems are tightly...

Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece "Mantiq al-tayr", or "The Conference of Birds", his verse is still considered to be the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735921Author Akosua Afiriyie-HwedieFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596339Author Dana LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

One of the most celebrated poets of the classical world, Pindar wrote odes for athletes that provide a unique perspective on the social and political life of ancient Greece. Commissioned in honor of successful contestants at the Olympic games and other...