Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464923787Author A Hidden TreasureFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 36g

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529024Author James WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

An astonishing discovery was made in 1995 during the British Library's removal from the British Museum. Thirty-four letters and eighteen draft poems, including "Break of Day in the Trenches", "Dead Man's Dump", and "Returning, We Hear the Larks" by the...

Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. "Strong is Your Hold" is his first new collection since his "Bloodaxe Selected Poems" (2001), which updated his 1982 "Selected Poems", winner of Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In the...

A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home. Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater / Xilase qui rie di' sicasi rie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367452Author Rachel McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 60g

"These poems erupted in the East Greenlanders heart-the human sea at the outer limit of the north-on Earth's most desolate and rugged shores. They were found in the living tradition of a small, recently discovered Eskimo people that I (Thalbitzer) had...

Unlike many a debut poet, Dan has given this collection a thorough stress test on the live circuit, and many of these poems have been commissioned for public projects. Dan is a poet who likes to play around with form. He likes to deconstruct and get a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880238196Author W.D. SnodgrassFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953447364Author Amy BobedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Flowersong PressPublisher Flowersong PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251898Author Pat BoranFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Kaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus as well as love lyrics, political rants, "Prison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oklahoma Book Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781935904977Author Lauren ZunigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367957Author Yvonne GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

A Spicing of Birds is a unique and beautifully illustrated anthology, pairing poems from one of America's most revered poets with evocative classic ornithological art. Emily Dickinson had a great love of birds-in her collected poems, birds are mentioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998144030Author Steve DalachinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Great Weather for Media, LLCPublisher Great Weather for Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

Following on from the runaway success of The Magicians of Edinburgh, renowned poet and novelist Ron Butlin conjures up Scotland's past, present and future in this new collection. From Skara Brae and the Roman invasion to the independence referendum and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838049416Author JULIE SALTFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Julie Salt, Salted PressPublisher Julie Salt, Salted Press

Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534790Author Patrizia CavalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800169289Author Charlotte Saint JeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new-found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She 'becomes' a Willow...

Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by...

Winner of the 2019 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. "You will love Dorsey Craft's rollicking persona, Pirate Bonny Annie, who, in this thrilling book of poems, serves up heaps of scintillant treasures from the bottomless trunk of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793576Author Tommy PicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912714971Author James Joyce.Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803527772Author Erise AmadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Independent Barcodes NetworkPublisher Independent Barcodes NetworkWeight(grams)...

Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880015578Author Robert HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

In Crash & Burn, Michael O'Neill describes his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus. The volume has four parts - devoted, in turn, to the preoperative chemotherapy; the operation; the post-operative chemotherapy; and a coda. Everywhere life and death...

The romans d'antiquite, medieval re-makings in French of the stories of Troy, Thebes, Greece, and Rome, first appeared in the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine in the twelfth century and continued to be read in England throughout the Middle Ages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528937412Author Abdulwahid Lu'lu'aFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556497Author Mutsuo TakahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838042615Author Bruce CadoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Neilson Book ServicesPublisher Neilson Book ServicesWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

"Eye of the Hare" affirms a spirituality for healing a shattered world. In a richly textured collection, layered with Biblical echoes and the music of "The Psalms", John F. Deane explores the possibilities of poetry to redress the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785437885Author Aphra BehnFormat PaperbackImprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 152g

Whether focusing in on catching fish off a pier, learning to speak Bird at night school, riding towards inspiration on horseback or thinking about manatees, the poems in Claire Dyer's second collection offer a slantwise look at some of the experiences,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789049855Author Marneta ViegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint John Hunt PublishingPublisher John Hunt PublishingWeight(grams) 210g