Poetry

Peter Dale combines intimacy of address and a personal colloquial idiom with remarkable skill in formal verse. He is interested in bringing his subjects - love, relationships, memory, all kinds of daily exchange - directly to the reader, without fuss and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916114142Author Mohan RanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

Separation Anxiety marks the first collection of poetry from acclaimed prose writer Janice Lee, and is a meditation on inhabitation and existence beyond the human. Weaving wisdom from her shamanic practice and the interstices of language, and in the...

The complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components - with translations - of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes. Volume 2 contains Books 2, 3, and 4,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398445352Author ReiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251270Author Iggy McGovernFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

A long-awaited collection of the latest poems penned by popular poet and scholar Eurig Salisbury. This is his second volume of poems for adults, following on from his first volume Llyfr Glas Eurig in 2008.ReviewsCerddi cyhoeddus yw'r rhain sy'n deillio...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137740Author Adrienne ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have...

French Love Poems is about the kinds of love that puzzle, delight and af?ict us throughout our lives, from going on walks with an attractive cousin before Sunday dinner (Nerval) to indulging a granddaughter (Hugo). On the way there's the ?rst yes from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116271Author MartialFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Dimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870612722Author Anne HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon PressWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062069016Author Michael VizsolyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781388341756Author Tina J CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736210475Author Irene SiltFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Deluge BooksPublisher Deluge BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

This is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of his profound contribution to French literature and art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722404Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

A collection of dark, funny Iberian poems about drinking, sex and death. Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the...

C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876747Author Ronnie GoodyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Howard Nemerov-poet laureate of the United States, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets-was one of the most prolific and significant American poets of the twentieth century. By the time of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912825Author Derrick C. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987634047Author Chelsea HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Chelsea HuiPublisher Chelsea HuiWeight(grams) 154g

Hello. Your promise has been extracted is Ahren Warner's third collection of poems, a book in which the lyric runs in parallel with a series of photographs made by the author across Europe. From Paris, Berlin and Budapest, to Athens during the height of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196548Author Ben BransfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384021Author James Matthew WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

"The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia" represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the...

A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson (1910-1970) has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry is marked by an almost limitless range of interest and extraordinary depth of feeling. Olson's themes are among the...

John Gay (1685-1732) was part of the "association of wits" that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. But though Gay's exposure of weakness and folly is no less acute than theirs, his wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196760Author Carol Ann DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565108Author Jenna ClakeFormat 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 9781913606022Author Barbara SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 92gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova's work-from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the...

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation-the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national...

from Okazaki Fragments by Kanika Agrawal These proceedings in nature These proceedings in cold biology These proceedings in chemical society These proceedings in physical communication We refer to the concentration of residues We observe...

At one remove from parental authority, aunts play a crucial role in the upbringing of children across the world. This anthology puts these women in the spotlight and explores what it means to be - and feels like to have - an aunt, historically and today...

Alright, Girl? is an extremely personal yet relatable exploration of class, gender and belonging. Full of heart and humour, these poems chart the almost impossible task of living and surviving in an age of austerity and gentrification. Through the...

Aligned with queer theories of temporality, fragments of memoir rub against the language of psychiatric and medical regimes at the site of a body that does not conform to a gender binary. Some Animal draws out dream-like and supernatural resonances...

Giovanni Marrasio (d. 1452), a humanist poet from Noto in Sicily, spent the major part of his poetic career in Siena and Ferrara before returning to Palermo in the role of a medical doctor serving the University of Palermo. In Siena, Naples, and Palermo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805932Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc