Poetry

It isn't widely known that Rilke, who ranked as one of the finest writers for his work in German, also wrote over 400 poems in French. The French poems were written toward the end of Rilke's life, after producing his masterworks, the Duino Elegies and...

This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. England, as every fan of Flanders and Swan will know, hasn't really got a national song...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240187Author Kofi AnyidohoFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 358g

The poems in Irki rise out of Kadija Sesay's experiences - amusing, loving, confusing, sad - of growing up in foster care in the UK after leaving her home country of Sierra Leone.'Irki' means 'homeland' in the Nubian language, a language and history fast...

Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 B.C.) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long didactic poem ""De Rerum Natura"" (""On the Nature of Things""). In it, he set out to explicate the universe, embracing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997842838Author James W GaynorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Nemeton PressPublisher Nemeton PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm *...

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"There was no one in this country as ferocious, as brilliant, or as necessary as Pedro Pietri. In these days of growing inequality it is to his rebel vision I turn to for hope and for strength. A towering poet, absolutely peerless, explosively talented,...

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984943982Author Miklos RadnotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint New American PressPublisher New American PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

In a masterly translation by Norman Shapiro, this selection of poems from Les Fleurs du mal demonstrates the magnificent range of Baudelaire's gift, from the exquisite quatrains to the formal challenges of his famous sonnets. The poems are presented in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244134235Author Maxine TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736687123Author Kalpna Singh-ChitnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint River Paw PressPublisher River Paw PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan...

Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the...

Her ascent to the top of the literary world is well known. Now you can enjoy the great works of this formidable writer in The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume Two: The Later Years. Readers will gain a solid understanding of MacEwen's works, as these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912547517Author Gi DhanoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint DVG Star PublishingPublisher DVG Star PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946604149Author Jahan KhajaviFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598289Author Dr. Germaine GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm

The poems of Beyond take the reader back to the optimism Sarah Wardle found as a youth when she left home and became involved in the world. They show her venturing forth again, embracing life to find that all was never lost, as she finally overcomes...

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding the world's experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060914295Author Allen GinsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876655Author Adam HorovitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

"There are words" is the long-awaited summary of Scottish poet Gael Turnbull's poetic career. A major figure in post-war British verse, Gael Turnbull (1928-2004) was at the centre of a nexus of Anglo-American poetic activity in the 1950s and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646997841Author Freya Haley JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Freya HaleyPublisher Freya HaleyWeight(grams) 177g

Anna Freeman Bentley's paintings use architectural imagery to explore the emotive potential of space. Grounded in an interest in the baroque her source material includes junk shops, restaurants, private members clubs, flea markets and designed interiors...

"Eyes To See Otherwise" is the first extensive selection of poems by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The range and quality of the translations, by some of America's finest poets, mark the centrality of his work on the map of...

Emily Hasler's debut collection moves between the local and the distant, the urban and the rural, and past and present. This is a poetry of emotional density underpinned with a lightness of touch. Hasler's poems are structural but organic, detailed but...

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. The acclaimed author of the memoir, In the Slender Margin, turns her focus back to poetry in this amazing and condensed work of prose poetry. The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the...

Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in...

Splash like Jesus brings together three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson), Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers; Lobo-Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861714896Author Francisca ChoFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904872163Author Maria Eugenia Bravo CalderaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint KatabasisPublisher Katabasis

"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998929354Author Tony ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Kin PressPublisher Kin PressWeight(grams) 73g

Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early...

Matthew Sweeney's eleventh collection of poems is haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition. The poems are imaginative riffs featuring troubling companions and troublesome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692633083Author Kurt NimmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Busted Dharma BooksPublisher Busted Dharma BooksWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Poetry has traditionally embodied religious imagination and reflected the deepest longings, joys, and tribulations of humanity. As the Bible's best-known poetry, the Psalms have been a rich source of inspiration for meditation, song, and recitation for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988000Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm