Poetry

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 *...

Songs of the Darkness brings together a selection of poems for Christmas written over a period of more than thirty years. They are notable for their combination of a close focus and breadth, and for the way in which the seasonal is celebrated alongside...

Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of his work to receive Rodin's full approval. Mostly self-educated, Rodin was a passionate re-reader of his favourite books, and Ovid's Love...

Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author experiences 'this in- / fernal ticking in the ink' and finds memory coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely present, spots of time which vivify him and his past. Through memory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999631031Author Robert LundquistFormat PaperbackImprint New River Press LtdPublisher New River Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414018Author Adam MickiewiczFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012620Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 410g

Ellie is no stranger to surprises, so when Amara, a magical mynah bird, visits her one morning and delivers an invitation to a mysterious gathering, Ellie takes it all in her stride. This, she hopes will be the start of her training and the beginning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945873003Author Khadija RupaFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Khadija RupaPublisher Khadija RupaWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354894718Author Namrita BachchanFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 150mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739173067Author Bob BeagrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Moya Cannon's new collection reaches back into the long past, showing how traces left behind - textile fragments, buried thimbles, cave paintings - enable us to make imaginative connections with our distant ancestors, emphasising the commonalities of...

Selected Poetry and Prose of Stephane Mallarme presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned "father of the Symbolists." Mallarme's major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue "Heriodiade," are all...

Welcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankind's greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific...

Song of the Simple Truth (Cancion de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos' complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark-the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition in...

Evans' debut, Threads-a collaboration with photographer Justin David also published by Inkandescent-was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. His follow-up bears the watermarks of someone who's swum life's emotional spectrum. Some poems barely...

In To See the Earth Before the End of the World, Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of...

"What has restlessness been for?" In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named - love that is at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the...

A mixture of Morgan's science fiction poems and concrete poems. There's the famous encounter between humans and aliens in 'The First Men on Mercury', early digital tongue-twisting in 'The Computer's First Christmas Card' and the effects of teleportation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614621Author Conor CarvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 125g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571315168Author Michael Kleber-DiggsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press's Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of the country's residents as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954881122Author Kei MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Heaventree PressPublisher Heaventree Press

In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time itself: in the poet's vision, the past rears up again with its angry ghosts, the present is racked by its martial and climatic nightmares, and the future has already come and gone. All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636697000Author Kavya DixitFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598654Author Jacqueline GabbitasFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

In this moving, playful and deeply philosophical volume, Gregory Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language. A passionate exploration of...

The voices of Tusiata Avia are infinite. She ranges from vulnerable to forbidding to celebratory with forms including pantoums, prayers and invocations. And in this electrifying new work, she gathers all the power of her voice to speak directly into...

In Coffin Honey, his seventh book of poems, celebrated poet Todd Davis explores the many forms of violence we do to each other and to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here racism, climate collapse, and pandemic, as well as the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565177Author Joelle TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a trial and eventual execution. Remarkably during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807094440Author Melissa RangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm * 8mm

On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New attempts to grapple with the complexities of our present moment. Personal and imagined stories appear as fragments of everyday scenes forming a narrative of self-discovery. Vignettes accompanied by...

With Nathaniel Mackey's fifth collection of poems, Nod House, we witness a confluence of music and meaning unprecedented in American poetry. Mackey's art continues to push the envelope of what is possible to map and remap through words in sounds and...

Selected for the Scottish Book Trust's Scots Language Grant introduced to mark the UN's International Year of Indigenous Language, Doors Tae Naewye is a new poetry collection by one of Shetland's finest poets written mostly in Shetlandic Scots. About...

The second book in Seagull's ambitious series of Georg Trakl's works, Sebastian Dreaming was the second, and final, collection prepared for publication by Trakl himself. Published after his death, it was perhaps even tied to it: forced into a military...