Poetry

Public Property was Andrew Motion's first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. In it, he negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of...

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets.Book...

A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance. Written in loose sonata form, Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest. Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss, and along the edges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007358Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787370043Author Michael DraytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

At her most moving and meditative, impressive and musical, Denise Levertov addresses in her poetry collection, Evening Train, the nature of faith and love, the imperiled beauty of the natural world, and the horrors of the Gulf War.About the AuthorDenise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593535936Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Yehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with warmth, moving easily between the mundane and the otherworldly, and, above all, delicately elegiac, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934824689Author Juan GelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 282g

Peter Bennet is a storyteller who reinvents the world each time he writes, and does so with linguistic resourcefulness and panache, bold imaginative strokes, subversive connections, and dark wit. He has also armed himself with a sophisticated dramatic...

Body language and the body of language - from the first words in the first garden to the last words of last night's lovers - are the entwined themes of Jon Stallworthy's new collection of poems, his first since The Guest from the Future (1995), described...

Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all...

Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document-a guidebook for the American slave owner. The...

Stepping into the lower deck of Christopher Matthew's Triple-Decker Treat, we discover that not only can a Le Creuset casserole be very dangerous in the wrong hands, but so too can Pilates, open-air opera in evening dress, weekending in Wales with a pug,...

A contemporary woman makes complex negotiations with history and culture in a voice equally strong, discerning, God-soaked, and edgy-creating music out of personal longing and cultural tragedy. Hashem Beck's poems offer a lens through which to see life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278081Author W. H. AudenFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 280g

Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666754841Author Victor OfosuFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

A transnational collection of 'Pandemic Poetry' and paintings which, among other themes, compares India with Scotland. Vibha's oil paintings complement Bashabi's evocative poetry.About the AuthorDr Bashabi Fraser, CBE is an award winning poet, Professor...

Three long poems - contemplating `The Uses of Greek', imagining the poet Sappho living out her life on the island of Inishbofin, and celebrating `The Farness of Latin' - mark transitions between thematic clusters of shorter pieces. Nominy-Dominy, with...

While working in a well-known pharmacy chain, Jeremy Dixon found surprising inspiration. His poems were written on the ends of till rolls and smuggled out in his socks. Anyone who has ever worked in retail will recognise the characters and situations,...

Magnus Sigurdsson spare poems pay rare attention to the minute revelations of nature rather than allowing the crudeness of machinery to bulldoze our sentiments. Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with...

You know the terror that for poets lurks Beyond the ferry when to Minos brought. Poets must utter their Collected Works, Including Juvenilia...--from "Letter to Lord Byron" (1936) Regardless of how poets feel about their youthful attempts at verse,...

Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature. In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593161Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904656Author Derrick C. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838367701Author Victor RumanyikaFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Victor Rumanyika PublishingPublisher Victor Rumanyika PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712029Author Marge PiercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)...

The newest collection from "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine) Set in transit even as they investigate the transitory, the cinematic poems in Love and I move like a handheld camera through the eternal, the minds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579155Author Rosebud Ben-OniFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908742681Author Myra SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Ward Wood PublishingPublisher Ward Wood Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999625405Author NerdfightersFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint N M Williamson PublishingPublisher N M Williamson PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533182Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976019Author Dorothea TanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 147mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978099Author Heid E ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561124Author Liz QuirkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy history of speculation about the nature of such a place of purgation. Through these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113665Author Zoe SkouldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 110g

This title is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though deeply rooted in the West Norwegian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630987Author Paula MeehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...