Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955507977Author Abena BusiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 147g

A scholarly edition of the poems of Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198127024Author Samuel JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876334Author Andy BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Inspired by the fate of Julia and Winston under the watchful eyes of Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984, Docteur Cybirdy has compiled an eclectic blend of quotes, briefs and rhapsodies: 84-19 Rhapsodies & Co from I Naming and shaming world leaders,...

Love / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004, and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke', 'The Sonnets'...

Was Milton on the side of the angels or the devils? Was he republican or anti-republican, feminist or misogynist? Did he value innocence or experience? Lucy Newlyn shows how the Romantic reader responds, in complex and often paradoxical ways, to...

David Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys,...

This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from "A Fist Full", published in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043073Author Richard BlancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781392065Author Charles Pierre BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561964Author Liz QuirkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 7mm

In this volume, Fein presents highly emotional Middle English lyrics to a new audience of students and teachers of the Middle Ages. These Middle English poems, drawn widely from two hundred years of literary tradition, lead readers in devotion to God by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594878Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 311g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578823607Author Ashley DiosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Jackanapes PressPublisher Jackanapes PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In the Temple of a Patient GodTranslated by Ruth Christie with an introduction by Maureen FreelyVisible Poets series no. 12, parallel-text edition"To read Bejan Matur is to walk into a windswept desert strewn with bones and broken bodies and stones...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606297Author Simon MaddrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Poet Sophie Hannah returns with a collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life. From relationships to the world of...

Honest, funny and deeply moving, this is an unforgettable story about facing the worst and surviving. Luke's life is rudely interrupted when his mum, Pat, collapses at the hospital where she works. Thoughtful Luke, nearly 15, and his accident-prone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639820122Author Dunstan ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Slant BooksPublisher Slant BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Since its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes's richly annotated edition--revised in 1962--emains the preferred text of many instructors.About the AuthorJohn Alvis is Professor of English at the University of Dallas and the Institute for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927115Author Rommi SmithPage Count 64Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route PublishingWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977639540Author Matthew DickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry ReviewWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590641Author Su Tung-P'oFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a...

In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was taken from the Baptist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629012Author Leeanne QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910834879Author Jennie FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

"Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy...Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt...She wields language expertly, even beautifully."--The New York Times What if the cinema of the present were a...

The Harvest and the Lamp, the third volume of the Colosseum Books series, is a singular collection of poems in a wide variety of forms and voices. Author Andrew Frisardi writes on fundamental human themes such as love and desire, death and grief, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771043116Author Kaie KelloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

From the medieval dancers of Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne to Wesley, Tennyson, Lawrence and John Clare, William Bedford's The Dancers of Colbek explores his own early years among the market towns and seacoasts of Lincolnshire. There are prize-winning...

Macedonia's Nikola Madzirov is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary European poetry. Born in a family of Balkan War refugees in Strumica in 1973, he grew up in the Soviet era in the former Republic of Yugoslavia ruled by Marshall Tito. When he...

Luciano Erba's poems discover in the details of everyday life--a cream-colored tie, an old book, a swallow--access to far-reaching mysteries, including the fact of our being here at all. One of Italy's most important contemporary poets, Erba is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387282Author R H BlythFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 32mm

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new collection, he puts on the mask of Moses Maimonides (aka the Rambam), the Medieval...

Robin Morgan's latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions. Robin shares her joys and intimacies which take centre stage and laments 'the ringmaster's desertion' as death hovers in the wings and aging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916111592Author Emily BullockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Reflex PressPublisher Reflex PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997079005Author Rebecca del RioFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Rebecca del RioPublisher Rebecca del RioWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912662135Author Sharnette Woosen-HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

Light, Grass, and Letter in April is the first book in English to appear since the great Danish poet's death in January 2009. Light (1962) and Grass (1963), her first published works, introduce her genius for the music of everyday speech, and her...