Poetry

A reliable and clean source of water is essential for any community, so it is easy to understand how important wells were for pre-modern peoples. More complex is the mystical relationship humans have developed with these sites, which are imbued with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997937640Author Akif KichlooFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Akif KichlooPublisher Akif KichlooWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

In 1940, a young girl is taken from her home in Eastern Poland to Arkhangelsk, Siberia; in 1942, she boards a train. Seventy years later, that journey is reimagined by her granddaughter, Zosia Kuczynska. As Kuczynska's poems tell the story of her babcia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861713605Author ARTHUR RIMBAUDFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110003Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 431g

Azul... (1888) is a book of stories and poems by Ruben Dario. Written while the poet was living in Chile, Azul... has been recognized as a pioneering work of Hispanic Modernism that launched the career of a leading Latin American poet. Both experimental...

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) was a 'cavalier' poet who sided with the king during the civil war. His influences included George Herbert and this volume is the fifth in a series on seventeenth century spiritual writing.About the AuthorHenry Vaughan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068687Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 165mm * 13mm

Anthony Wilson's poems explore the borderline territory between grief and laughter, memory and forgetting, illness and health. His central subject is the way we live within family and community, questioning the roles we construct, both alone and with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949342338Author Jacqueline SuskinFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781720714Author Zoe SkouldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 115g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390952Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735679Author George AbrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

A scholarly edition of Sir William Davenant's Gondibert. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198124207Author David F GladishFormat HardbackPage...

Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196241Author MaitreyabandhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts. His poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. You can see a young man building his house of poetry, just as his poems reflect on building a marriage and making his home,...

The Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of differing shapes, sizes, and power. Simon Barraclough (Poet in Residence at the Mullard Space Science...

Noelle Kocot's ninth collection, Ascent of the Mothers, is a sagacious testament to the ways in which poetry can shape personhood. "I am nothing" they write, "Or else I have made myself / Too big for words." The scope of this book is marked by Kocot's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802124470Author Claudia RankineFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.AwardsWinner of Brittingham Prize in Poetry 1997.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904886297Author Christopher SouthgateFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows.The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal's Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the...

Every one of us is a complex and beautifully woven fabric of stories, and whether we tell them or not, there are no measuring tapes or weighing scales to speak of their worth. Talk You Round Till Dusk is a collection of tiny stories and big ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409968863Author Mary RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dodo PressPublisher Dodo PressWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615345628Author Tamae K PrindleFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Syllabic PressPublisher Syllabic PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Travelling from one place to another is never as simple as getting from A to B. Whether you're sailing in a stately cruise liner or running for a grimy commuter train, your mode of transport affects the way you look at the things around you. Travel can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246895Author James KirkupFormat PaperbackPage Count 45Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062854155Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Astoria examines the transitory physical world of the body and reflects on the seamless quality of the present moment. Surrounded by the rush and noise of trains, highways, and grocery store checkout lines, the narrator of these poems creates an intimate...

Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the...

Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential...

The language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, ""A Little Middle of the Night"", is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one...

Grappling with the shock of her grandmother's suicide, mai c. doan undertook a writing project that might give voice to her loss as well as to grapple with memory, and the challenge of articulation and of documentation, in all of their contradictions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957158429Author Fiona RobynFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Woodsmoke PressPublisher Woodsmoke PressWeight(grams) 139g

Winner Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for PoetryShortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2009Poetry Bank Choice and Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2006 'The Send-Off', an elegy for a lost child, was...

Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. The first poem in her new collection asks 'Shall we go on...

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196067Author Ralf AndtbackaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books