Poetry

Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as...

Winner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.The poems in Matthew Francis's first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530585Author Edgar Lee MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 106mm *...

You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have poems written about them. It's not something they say. It's something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the way they look walking away from you."A collection that will beg you to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787802803Author Anne Kingsmill FinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn's new collection The Hoelderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin?- the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of his life sequestered in a carpenter's tower in the...

Lars Gustafsson, one of Sweden's leading men of letters, is known in the English-speaking world primarily for his novels and short stories, but he is also a distinguished poet with ten discrete volumes published to date in addition to the collective...

Following her previous two bestselling volumes, Liz Cowley returns with a new collection of 140 humorous cameos inspired by gardening quirks in her accessible, witty style - the perfect thing to have to hand during a tea-break!About the AuthorLiz Cowley...

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a shape-shifting poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life. His poems are startlingly intense...

An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the...

Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578467566Author Topher KearbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Gray Force PublishingPublisher Gray Force PublishingWeight(grams) 349g

This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in the German language, Eich was rivaled only by Paul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841379Author Steven J. ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazar's striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South's historic and ongoing...

A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive...

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first black American to publish a book and enjoyed international fame during her short life. Yet despite the considerable achievements of this young poet, her work has received little critical attention. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711466Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 149mm...

From the foreword:"In Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson walks us back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid bare. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527932Author Amber DawnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758140Author Lord George Gordon ByronFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 845g

WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant LiteratureFinalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry! A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646822013Author Rachel HFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Alittlepoetic PublishingPublisher Alittlepoetic PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Portrait of Colossus is a searingly forthright debut that navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. It articulates, with skill and sly humour, the migrant experience from the perspective of the second generation, the ones who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692798331Author Topher KearbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Gray Force PublishingPublisher Gray Force PublishingWeight(grams) 431g

'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's...

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614324Author Grace WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739339401Author Seymour JacklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Seymour JacklinPublisher Seymour JacklinWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language," said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems-dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916012103Author Alexander TvardovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156535007Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727089Author Damian Walford DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Frost Medal 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780679733577Author Anthony HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

With lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to the insidious growth of the global Big Tech economy in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914478Author Serena AlagappanFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Paper-thin Skin is the debut collection by Aigerim Tazhi, who has broken ground as a Kazakhstani woman poet by gaining attention both in Russia and internationally. Fish, insects, birds, the sea, the sky, humans seeking connection, and death figure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388319591Author Susi ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Cyberwit.NetPublisher Cyberwit.NetWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907476979Author John TrippFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press