Poetry

"Verse and visuals meet, with spectacular results." -- FOREWORD (Starred Review)"A thoughtful and vibrant dive into the art of cis female, trans, and nonbinary poets." - BOOKLIST"This ambitious anthology of feminist comics poetry aims high, and soars...

The poems in this collection are presented as translations from the work of the eponymous Katerina Brac, who lives in a country, and writes in a language, that are never identified.'Reid's achievement in this book is to conjure up in very few words a...

This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George...

This is a story, writes Luke Hathaway, of transformation. It is a death. It is a birth. / Birth, of course, is very terrible: what can survive it? His fourth collection, and first since Years, Months, and Days, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2018,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477913Author Judymay MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 116gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880016162Author J. GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams) 500g

Tony Harrison: Loiner is published to celebrate the poet and playwright Tony Harrison's sixtieth birthday through an exploration of his work, including his best-known poem v.. Harrison (1937- ) has been called `our best English poet', and has been...

Pearl, a dream vision, presents its poignant story of the education of a misguided Christian soul in metrically intricate and verbally ornate stanzas that add up to an overarching numerical design. Together with these two, Patience, Cleanness, and Saint...

In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community. With the wit and musicality fitting of a 90s baby...

In The Last Uncle, Linda Pastan writes, "If death is everywhere we look, / at least let's marry it to beauty." The poems in this new collection deal with loss and the difficult transition between generations, but they are also about love and landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712159Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Years after her death, a poet's life and work speak across the generations, inspiring new music and more intentional living. What are the heart's necessities? It's a question Jane Tyson Clement asked herself over and over, both in her poetry and in...

A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912450Author Megan FalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Miles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused - as lovers tend to be - by the inconstant nature of 'the other'. In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first (A Vulture's Egg, 1966), he is also aware, merrily for the...

What is land and how is it made? In this penetrating new study of sites in western, eastern and southern India, Nikita Sud argues persuasively that land is not simply the solid surface of the earth. It is best understood as a materially and conceptually...

A collection of poems that explores the radical love inherent in revolutionary work through cultural objects, adolescent affect, and queerness from within the fall of empire. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta croons in the voice of a lovesick teenaged...

Brimming with wit, moments of acute observation and imagination, and written in a wry, self-deprecating Billy Collins-esque style, Will Kemp's third collection is replete with refreshing images for the things that enrich life, from clouds to sport, art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521479Author Migu PineroFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Kings of Aragon and southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of...

Nina Bogin's Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extra-ordinary people and moments - the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880081Author Emma BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989641586Author Sierra DemulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614728177Author T S EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Berkshire Publishing GroupPublisher Berkshire Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307267115Author Rudyard KiplingFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Potter StylePublisher Random House USA Inc

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban...

This is a newly translated collection of poetry - in a bilingual edition - by Francophone writer Nadia Tueni, including more than forty selected poems, together with articles on Tueni's work. This book comprises both Christophe Ippolito and Paul B...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915022288Author Mark WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryDimensions(mm) 216mm * 134mm * 5mm

Novelty Theory is the fiery debut collection of poetry by Caspar Heinemann. Described by Bhanu Kapil as follows: "Caspar Heinemann has written an anthem for alien beloveds everywhere, in the time before rising up and where the "pre-nothings" burn up as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527723Author Professor Robert PinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar Strauss &...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721933Author Katherine StansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250g

The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the...

Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's great enduring metropolises. In this unusual anthology, Reuven Snir offers original translations of more than 170 Arabic poems-most of them appearing for the first time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631052Author Amy RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367773Author Stephen KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 55g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913499563Author Mark DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Hedgehog Poetry PressPublisher Hedgehog Poetry PressWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565290Author Ali LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035804436Author E BraveheartFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers