Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112989Author Samantha WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 95g

From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Poets Society, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of London New Poetry Award 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781854114921Author Carrie EtterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales...

"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."--Dennis Cooper Eileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182839Author Edith WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir,...

The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of...

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) published 13 volumes of poetry between 1893 and 1936 - crucial transitional years in the evolution of modern poetry. His early poems were written under the shadow of the Rossettis, Swinburne and William Morris, but Ford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679760641Author Karol WoytilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 248gDimensions(mm)...

The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poemsEwa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English...

All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr's poems the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that struggle includes the eternal presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536862Author Eleanor ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Through a series of love letters and individual poems that are both conversational and extraordinary, Cleary beautifully explores the ghosts of his past and what it means to experience a loss, promising to leave readers dewy-eyed with a deep yearning for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714527154Author George ReaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565214Author Ben NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486997Author Raymond HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916139206Author George JowettFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532640209Author Swami AbhishiktanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860152Author Fiona Tinwei LamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 126g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060920449Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110089Author Roddy LumsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 190g

The collection includes alphabet, calendar, list and found poems, as well as a sequence conceived as a 'variable construction', with one of many possible versions presented here. Many of the poems were written as collaborations with visual artists, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398499744Author Shahad AlmutahharFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793408Author Megan FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853875Author Rachel BowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

For over two centuries, black poets have created verse that captures the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their variety of visions and styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry aims to offer nothing...

The Destruction of Jerusalem, also called Titus and Vespasian, is a fifteenth-century fictionalised version of the historical Roman siege of Jerusalem. Marked by antisemitism, Christian nationalism and violence, this Middle English poem weaves together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804169127Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956084064Author Reshma RuiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Skylark Publications (UK)Publisher Skylark Publications (UK)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596490Author Ted KooserFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987095695Author Mark McDougalFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Birchgrove PressPublisher Birchgrove PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909357839Author Alison LockFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar's rich and haunting poems in "Stone Sleeper", his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form a three-way dialogue between the modern poet, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083133652Author Herman GorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Arimei BooksPublisher Arimei BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 11mm

Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book AwardThese poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living toys, dressing up, and daylight ghosts. His world is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714543376Author Sydney Goodsir SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979378836Author Emelihter KihlengFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint KahuaomanoaPublisher KahuaomanoaWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982106577Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955106132Author Malcolm PoveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 105g