Poetry

Molly Brodak's The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits. "We stand on the rim of the void," Brodak writes. "We hold our little lamps of knowing / on the rim, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477074Author Alex HouenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473623562Author Gwyneth LesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Outspoken Ink PressPublisher Outspoken Ink PressWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473411404Author F D SoulFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint VI Verbis PressPublisher VI Verbis PressWeight(grams) 222g

Dujie Tahat's Salat is a book of poems written in a compelling new form of the poet's own invention that participate, fully - they praise, weep, spit, beg, laugh, choke, sing. In this murderous age it is increasingly unconscionable to be inert, in one's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553287Author John HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley Peters published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by...

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving...

Subterranea is a first collection of poetry by Jos Smith that explores the relationship of our human world to the earth that underpins it. At times delicate and curious, at times painfully unbalanced, it is a relationship of always precarious intimacy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436118Author Char MarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367711Author Zeina Hashem BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 65g

Sarah Wardle was poet-in-residence with Tottenham Hotspur FC when many of these poems were written. Her Score! is a winning commentary on contemporary culture, shooting at the heart of consciousness, family, sport, the female voice and Darwinian science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398448551Author Jessica ChiswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935626077Author Frances Ridley HavergalFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Portobello, the district in Dublin where the Irish poet Harry Clifton lives, is a microcosm of a changing, cosmopolitan Ireland. These sonnets, written on his return from sixteen years in continental Europe, are at once a celebration of place, a coming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930981Author Wilson OryemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Wilson OryemaPublisher Wilson Oryema

"Finished and finely wrung, this book is a linguistic experiment in active collaboration with matter the dense data itself. Marjorie Welish, a painter in her multi-verse, leaves very little out though it may seem as if ruthless in being stark. But...

This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon co-exists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed's second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss - of a beloved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504363167Author Shiloh SophiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725757Author Cath DrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739173012Author Montagu SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359339419Author Don MagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645432657Author Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Roseyravelston BooksPublisher Roseyravelston BooksWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645432640Author Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Roseyravelston BooksPublisher Roseyravelston BooksWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645432633Author Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Roseyravelston BooksPublisher Roseyravelston BooksWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984251513Author Cristin O'Keefe AptowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music, assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957081758Author Wayne VisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Wayne VisserPublisher Wayne VisserWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367001Author David TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 96g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888392244Author Robert ServiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

These new poems by Martha Kapos represent an act of reclamation or capture: an attempt to retrieve someone whose loss has been experienced through illness and finally death. Taking as an epigraph a line from Richard Wilbur ' - a thing is most itself when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582436241Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 127mm * 10mm

Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his evolving religious beliefs. Journey to the End contains the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692747766Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint William OrcuttPublisher William OrcuttWeight(grams) 95g

Vittoria Colonna's 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752292Author Virginia AdairFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692969373Author Randy MascorroFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rad Press PublishingPublisher Rad Press PublishingWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911469315Author Antony RowlandFormat PaperbackImprint Arc PublicationsPublisher Arc Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385509Author Paul ClaudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...