Poetry

The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out most of what was written in the ancient world. Now Barry B. Powell, one of the twenty-first century's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910834206Author Mab JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999674212Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615980164Author Gustave DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Hythloday PressPublisher Hythloday PressWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557278855Author Seriphina MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 104g

Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061173752Author Leonard CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also...

Peter Larkin might best be described as an eco-poet. His work stretches the fabric of form and language in an attempt to come to grips with the despoliation of our forests, woods and countryside. The language of forestry and of agriculture, of botany and...

This collection brings together verses that mark the last moments of life, the passing of one stage to another. At a time of grief, we often search for the right words to say, words which will help us come to terms with death, with loss and with the fear...

"Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"--the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins...

I had to fight for my existence before I was even out of my mother's womb. If I didn't stop fighting then, why would I stop now?What Will People Say follows a South Asian woman's journey through being a daughter, and later a daughter-in-law, within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961126Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008922051Author Marie MonroFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 108g

Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, James Fenton, Kit Wright, Craig Raine...

Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States' most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Saboteur Awards Best Anthology 2018. Short-listed for International Rubery Award for Poetry 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781911048268Author Nadia KingsleyFormat...

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This volume is the first affordable, modern collection of all eleven of the known Middle English Gawain tales, and aims to make these texts accessible to a wider, contemporary audience. These poems-The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Sir Gawain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916114111Author Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac GaarriyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977857654Author Richard SieburthFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 297g

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804390955Author Victoria Day-JoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725275850Author Kathi BurgFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261323Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Winner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry The title Little Pharma is both a doppelganger and a cri de coeur: as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clinic, the...

At last -- a complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. During his lifetime Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Penny Whistles, Underwoods (1887) and Ballads (1890). There were also various private press adventures...

Powerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of the most respected poets writing in Korea. The novelty of his poetic language with its narrative lyricism and provacative philosophy makes it impossible to classify...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853899Author Caroline HardakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901233827Author Inger ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 75g

In Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and 'naughty, unwomanly" language in order to challenge readers to...

This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he...

Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952818035Author Carl ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Elizabeth River PressPublisher Elizabeth River PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916266698Author Gretchen HeffernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Backlash PressPublisher Backlash PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251621Author Enda WyleyFormat PaperbackImprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus.Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city, Wells' tightly honed poems satirise the slide towards a...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English literary genius, famous for his many classic novels such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, and many more. Less well...

Poems for revelling in passion and perversity, for the inspection of violence and pain, for tampering with truth, for always getting your fingers wet, for making lame pigs everywhere powerful.About the AuthorRosy Carrick is a writer, performer,...