Poetry

Tom Chivers (editor) was born in south London in 1983. His publications include How to Build a City (Salt, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches, 2009), Flood Drain (Annexe, 2014) and, as editor, the anthologies City State: New London Poetry and Adventures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374152017Author Louise GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 71Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 249g

The poems in "Terrestrial Variations" respond to the sheer chanciness of life. They are elegies for friends, relations, dead selves, and unrealised lives, but - like Jane Griffiths' previous poems - they are also full of things, both real and remembered,...

With an ear tuned to the most delicate musical effects, an eye for exact and heterogeneous details, and a mind bent on experiment, Louis Zukofsky was preeminent among the radical Objectivist poets of the 1930s. This is the first collection to draw on the...

A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United...

Fifty-nine new poems from award-winning writer Angus Peter Campbell. These poignant and beautifully crafted poems were originally created while in residence in a thatched house in his native South Uist. They move across time and space like a radio dial...

Matthew Rohrer's latest collection explores the space between wakefulness and sleep, that drowsy loosening of consciousness called hypnagogia. Comprised not of dream-poems but poems that strain to hear dreams' faintest messages squeaked through into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739950033Author Fran oise H l neFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Endless Books PublishingPublisher Endless Books PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986759536Author Chus PatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Zat-So ProductionsPublisher Zat-So ProductionsWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367698Author Geraldine ClarksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 70g

Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking - her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life of their own' (John Burnside). As in all her books, the...

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first black American to publish a book and enjoyed international fame during her short life. Yet despite the considerable achievements of this young poet, her work has never received its critical due. This collection...

What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation with questions of consciousness and existence. Stephen Dunn's poems probe life's big...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783945337Author Archibald LampmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

One of the most notable members of the New York School-and its best-known woman-Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735942Author Guillaume ApollinaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640603943Author Sarah LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930479Author L. KiewPage Count 24Imprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 204mm * 156mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035806423Author Sylvie RouhaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915022042Author Mary DorceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995723801Author Sarah AlukoFormat PaperbackImprint Sarah AlukoPublisher Sarah AlukoWeight(grams) 181g

This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numinous is translocated from heaven to earth -- grand Nature -- and from there further on into Man's inner...

John Ashbery's new collection of fifty-one poems ends with the substantial piece that gives the book its title. Composed in stanzaic prose, it is a fine specimen of his distinctive courtship mode, wooing the language with language, teasing it and teasing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486722Author Joseph MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree-and to cope with these very real terrors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196098Author Sarah FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964518148Author Andrew CalhounFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Artemis BooksPublisher Artemis BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book is the result of a person having ideas who finds the world a magical/beautiful/ridiculous/horrific place to live. There is a poem about a grey cat in it, so if you like grey cats you might like that one. There is a short story about going round...

A poetry collection that playfully questions the meanings of words. Walter Ancarrow's collection Etymologies considers language as a process, rather than as a singular fixed history. These poems build imaginative worlds with a variety of creative word...

Voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manick's poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811225175Author Bernadette MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565047Author Leon PriestnallFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 5mm

Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811218252Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

WINNER OF THE 2020/2021 ALCUIN SOCIETY BOOK DESIGN AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE ROBERT KROETSCH CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 STEPHAN G. STEPHANSSON AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE DAYNE...

She Who Sleeps With Bones was named a 2009 Jamaican bestseller in Jamaica Gleaner 'Local books did it big in 09'.In Tanya Shirley's She Who Sleeps With Bones, the hauntings of memory and the spiritual lead us to eloquently shaped epiphanies that turn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861516763Author Jack BlackmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

Long a master of the crafts of Homeric translation and of rhapsodic performance, Stanley Lombardo now turns to the quintessential epic of Roman antiquity, a work with deep roots in the Homeric tradition. With characteristic virtuosity, he delivers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692988091Author Javier RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rad Press PublishingPublisher Rad Press PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307950673Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...