Poetry

The book's title can be read two ways. Impasse or contraction is one of them. The purging of all but essential matters is another. Each section in this poetry collection covers unique themes. In Canticles, these 'small songs' celebrate the world given...

"The Blue Den" is a book of lyrical, sensuous poems which builds on the achievement of Stephanie Norgate's debut collection "Hidden River", which was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110201Author Niall GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 611g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551529172Author A. Light ZacharyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Moving from the violent to the erotic, "Conquest" describes women questing to rediscover their own desire. Split into three sections, the collection begins in the 19th-century England of the Bronte sisters, travels...

Early in her powerful, affecting debut, Desautels writes: "I always mention gratitude because/people like that ending." Unflinching in its candor, this is the story of a woman with two swellings in her belly: a nascent baby, and a cancerous tumor. The...

Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800746367Author Edwyna Prior-BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917265Author Kirsty TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

"I never thought I would come all this wayto come all this way."The troupe of "friends" and "strangers" whom the reader meets in these poems are sometimes alter egos, sometimes aliases, sometimes adversaries. Located in worlds such as those of French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648989370Author David TensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Poetry Chapel PressPublisher Poetry Chapel PressWeight(grams) 227g

Lyrica Graeca SelectaReviewsAn indispensable teaching text, striking the right balance of text and major variant readings in the apparatus criticus for introducing college students to the reading of fragmentary ancient Greek poetry. * Cashman Kerr...

Many of the poems included here are short and uplifting, with messages such as "be yourself," "you are beautiful," and "this too shall pass." They combine the appeal of short, shareable poems with inspiration and encouragement. Also included are some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075057Author John GreeningFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2020 FINALIST for the FIRECRACKER AWARDS SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation. SLINGSHOT begins with the author ensconced in the menacing...

Knife Sharpener - Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before...

Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee father's old age. This new book goes further, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228896647Author Ali NanjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 4mm

Diane Seuss's poems grow out of the fertile soil of southwest Michigan, bursting any and all stereotypes of the Midwest and turning loose characters worthy of Faulkner in their obsession, their suffering, their dramas of love and sex and death. The first...

Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995535183Author Joseph KaifalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint MigrationsPublisher Palewell Press Ltd

When Raymond Luczak was growing up deaf in a hearing Catholic family of nine children, his mother shared conflicting stories about having had a miscarriage after-or possibly around-the time he was conceived. As an elegy to his lost twin, this book asks:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692851630Author Molly S HilleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Molly S. HilleryPublisher Molly S. HilleryWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353368579Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 25mm

Announcing the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets prize Jessica Fisher's Frail-Craft is winner of the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and judge Louise Gluck's fourth selection for the series. The book and the dream are the...

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets, the winner of the Nordic Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - for her collection Queen's Gate, published in English by Bloodaxe in 2001. This new translation of her work combines two more...

The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612615158Author Scott CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A poetic soap-opera where ancient mermaidens meet Glaswegian winos in a world that can only be described as doomed. This collection of poems ranges from dystopian visions of modern day London in 'Strange Lights over Bexleyheath', lust-driven nostalgia in...

In Absolutely Maybe, Nick's second book, Nick makes serious and insightful inquiries into how we view the dynamics in today's modern relationships. Part tragedy, part comedy and part romance, (with an added bonus in the back) his book speaks to the parts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722022Author Alice EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 365g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532645853Author Charles P guyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

From the natural world to war and politics, from memories of childhood to bittersweet snapshots of everyday life, from wry asides to fantastical flights of narrative fantasy - Kona Macphee applies her versatile and polished technique to a characteristic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949342499Author Ashia AjaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345807410Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *...

Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizesfrom microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt and terror of life, this examination embraces literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012866Author Leanne DunicFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

A number of years back, our author went to seek out a book by some ancient Greek thinker - the name starting with an L, or perhaps a C - called On Delight of the Nature of Things, or maybe In Delight at the Nature of Things. Either way, it turned out the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784866581798Author Minoru OzawaFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for CulturePublisher Japan Publishing Industry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584169Author Richie HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...