Poetry

Lesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditions, codes and behaviours that have been obscured, obliterated or proclaimed irrelevant. Sybil: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732095700Author Christian Editing ServicesFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Ivette EllisPublisher Ivette EllisWeight(grams) 99gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666716825Author Burl HorniachekFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet's experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905233465Author Anja KonigFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedPublisher Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853974Author Victoria GatehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451674187Author Reader in Classics Stephen MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Washington Square PressPublisher Washington Square...

The result easily demonstrated, then as now, the massive achievement of the writer whom Carolyn Kizer called "one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poets living."About the AuthorRichard Hugo was for many years the director of the creative...

'Eventually, she spoke. If you don't laugh, you'll cry, she said, as she did neither.' The fifth poetry collection from an award-winning poet, As if it Meant Something is a startlingly beautiful, wide-ranging selection that lays the tapestry of life...

A poet called Dave gives his unique insight into a background that rarely pushes poets to the foreground. A funny, unflinching and heartfelt journey from the streets of Stretford to a stage near you, this is what happens when two very different worlds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596148Author Shangyang FangFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint 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 9781910489529Author John SnellingFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Country BooksPublisher Country Books

Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface,...

Georgia Brown has lived many lifetimes and played the part of many different characters, none of which were safe or pro-active. Her self-destruction was doomed to leave her deceased. This included many roads, including: Heroin addiction, Bulimia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905082667Author Victor HugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye

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At last in a single volume: the breadth and depth of Denise Levertov's poetic achievements. Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her...

New collection of poems from prizewinning poet and translator.Richly imaginative and intercontinental: the latest poetry collection from the prizewinning poet and translator, now in paperback.About the AuthorJamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955...

Cast as a dialogue among six interlocuters, this lyric blend of poetry and prose considers light from a variety of perspectives - philosophical, physical, ethical, and metaphorical.About the AuthorJACQUES ROUBAUD is one of France's leading contemporary...

In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971-2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together a remarkable body of work. Included are Adrienne Rich's own selections from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486277820Author Sir Edwin ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH [Christopher Howse] Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196807Author Emma SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Hermann Beckh's masterful study of Mark's Gospel offers much more than scholarly argument. It is the work of a true visionary who allows his readers to discover the meaning of the Earth and of humanity for themselves. Beckh was in the forefront of...

This anthology features the work of six of Estonia's most celebrated poets. They write from their oral tradition and folklore, explore new forms of poetry through music, marginalia and note-making.Book InformationISBN 9781906570972Author Doris...

G&T is a pamphlet-length poem, exploring themes of queerness, sexuality and desire. Told through a series of anonymous encounters and relationships with older men, G&T moves between the anonymity of the early hours and the cold light of day. Taking us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578826646Author J M WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint J.M. Wise WritingPublisher J.M. Wise WritingWeight(grams) 127g

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 9781950380114Author Kevin RidgewayFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stubborn Mule PressPublisher Stubborn Mule PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Testimony for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014 Mr. President, After they shot me they tackled my sister. The sound of her knees hitting the sidewalk made my stomach ache. It was a bad pain. Like when you love someone and they lie to you. Or that time...

According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read...

For the past 50 years, Mircea Dinescu has been one of Romanian poetry's most provocative and obstinately singular poets. After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in his fingers with the aplomb of a magician who refuted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428882Author Salim BarakatFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Seagull BooksPublisher Seagull BooksWeight(grams) 159g

'Transparently accomplished,' as John Kerrigan has written, 'his work displays the kind of internal "itinerary" which (in Mandelstam's language) is the mark of achieved poetry'. This book selects the best work from thirty years of that itinerary, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595417Author Elizabeth J. ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 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 9781501127564Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

A beautifully illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating babies, children and childhood - from the magical times and memories of childhood, through to the unconditional love a parent has for a child. Some of our best-loved poets are featured, such...

The poems in Breezeway move lightly between the everyday world, with its pleasures and absurdities, and the worlds of literature and art, with theirs. John Ashbery's poems are haunting, surprising, hilarious, and knowing, the work of an old and always a...

The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most exciting new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in decades. It not only contains over 100...

If you can imagine William Blake playing Scrabble with Joni Mitchell, Catherine of Aragon booking into the Holiday Inn, or Cassius Clay meeting the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus, you're ready for the dreamworld created by Aidan Semmens in The Jazz...