Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995638860Author Ian HarrowFormat PaperbackImprint Rack PressPublisher Rack Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876150Author Audrey Ardern-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Taking in the years of the pandemic, McMillan's poetry takes us on a trip through his life and imagination, his hopes, observations and dreams. It's never less than an interesting journey. He is an accessible, humorous and tender writer. He is one of...

Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). This book - his first to be published in Britain - brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects"...

In this mosaic of sonnets, her fifth collection, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a little-recorded event that killed 25 million worldwide, half a million in America alone. The Nation...

The algorithm of my own life, faded and spidery, is written, not keyed in. From bombsites used as childhood playgrounds to lockdown FaceTime calls, Kate Foley looks back on almost nine decades of life - a life characterised by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986240331Author Janavi HeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Krishna West, Inc.Publisher Krishna West, Inc.Weight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

"Crowe knows just how much to give and how much to hold back, offering fleeting glances and sometimes strange images... These are sinewy, questing poems, alive with memory and attentive to the interior landscape." PBS selectors on Figure in a Landscape...

Recognized for his "wildly original" poetry and his "uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative," Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has "razor-exacted" and "raw-wired" an absorbing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976965Author Associate Professor of English D A PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams)...

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life. His poems are startlingly intense anecdotes on love,...

Took House is a disquieting book about intimate relationships and what is seen and hidden. In vulnerable poems of obsession, Camp places motivation deep in the background, following instead a chain reaction between pain and pleasure. Took House navigates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111579Author Robert MinhinnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 302g

Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same...

Lucid narratives of family dramas, global warming, and conversations with Death make a riveting new collection from this prize-winning poet. The poems swing between Mexico City, New York, the Peloponnese, a Staffordshire village and home - their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934832592Author Maya Catherine PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint New Michigan PressPublisher New Michigan PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of...

First published by Walt Whitman, in 1855, Leaves of Grass is the landmark poetry collection that introduced the world to a new and uniquely American form. Alive with the mythical strength and vitality that epitomized the American experience in the...

While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O'Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781555977856Author Danez SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876341Author Kathy MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612618388Author Scott CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989898478Author John RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Exot BooksPublisher Exot BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

With exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter's sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language and the imagination. In cityscapes, nature, books, and color, we find respite in the complexities of the commonplace-from...

This is a major study of the relation between poetry and politcs in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature, focusing in particular on the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Dryden. Howard Erskine-Hill argues that the...

Peter Scupham's eleventh collection brings his customary elegance and skill to bear on themes as diverse as the "Battle of Arras", "Kilvert's Diary", and an unexpected encounter with his parents on holiday from the underworld. These parables and truthful...

An inspirational collection containing the unabridged scripts of Rose Condo's three acclaimed poetry theatre shows: The Geography of Me, How to Starve an Artist and The Empathy Experiment. In The Geography of Me, Rose journeys through foreign and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595486Author C. D. WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Described as "dazzling" by Edmund White and as a poet "who has The Gift and delivers The Goods" by Kenward Elmslie, Donald Britton published just one book of poetry, Italy, before his death from AIDS in 1994. A Kind of Endlessness: The Selected Poems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544586208Author Natasha TretheweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913738310Author Sudeep SenFormat HardbackPage Count 616Imprint Pippa Rann Books & MediaPublisher Salt Desert Media Group Ltd. (SDMG)

Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984502834Author T G RillstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Xlibris AuPublisher Xlibris AuWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. Many of Kevin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909357259Author Terry QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm *...

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and...

George Ttoouli is an Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Warwick Writing Programme. He co-founded the Heaventree Press in 2002 and has worked in the education team at the Poetry Society. He's now mostly skint, in Coventry. He co-edits poetry blogzine Gists...

"A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and the loneliness of drifting into adulthood." -Miguel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613327Format PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 98g

National Book Award winner Gerald Stern's wistful and lively poems span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history and mortality.About the AuthorGerald Stern (1925-2022), the author of nineteen volumes of poetry, was awarded the...