Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029422Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977788Author Erika L. SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668031308Author Diana Khoi NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *...

"...and trying to get you to blow me away""Both gentle and electrifying. Left me speechless." - Makenzie Campbell, author of 2am Thoughts Like finding a four-leaf clover, breaking a fortune cookie, wishing on a shooting star, or blowing a dandelion, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398434981Author George FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials-and are all anonymous from end to end,...

In The World Unmade Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws on his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies. He also explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732318526Author Dedan GillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inner Pathway PublishingPublisher Inner Pathway PublishingWeight(grams)...

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The...

Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple translation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806663Author BhartrihariFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first black American to publish a book and enjoyed international fame during her short life. Yet despite the considerable achievements of this young poet, her work has received little critical attention. This...

So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.About the AuthorBesides being a practicing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789968495066Author Mitra PolitiFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Reuven PolitiPublisher Reuven PolitiWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367391Author Ann AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 240g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561292Author Lorna ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 7mm

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 9781854114143Author Tim LiardetFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Knife Sharpener - Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before...

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

Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.”—Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw...

Join Chris Martin for a poetic walking tour of hell-or is it heaven? In this wickedly clever collection, Martin asks how we go about living in the tension between protesting lunatic politicians and picking up the kids from school, mourning a dying Earth...

The intricate stories told in Rodrigues' portraits are matched by the rhythms and imagery in Fraser's poetry. From 'The Bangladeshi Gentleman' to 'Jura Whisky', this book offers an insight into the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures in today's...

Shortly before his death at the age of twenty, the young literary sensation Raymond Radiguet compiled a volume of his poetry, composed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Presented here, this prodigious oeuvre is notable as much for its homage to...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987634047Author Chelsea HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Chelsea HuiPublisher Chelsea HuiWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 7mm

"The Way It Is" gathers many of the unpublished poems from William Stafford's last months, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as a generous selection of works from throughout his career.Book InformationISBN 9781555972691Author William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826403346Author Eric SantnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century. "Prague with Fingers of Rain" is his classic 1936 collection in which Prague's many-sided life - its glamorous history, various weathers, different kinds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196227Author Karen SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721933Author Katherine StansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915022288Author Mark WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryDimensions(mm) 216mm * 134mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910834701Author Kay CottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917159Author Iona MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916012134Author Reja-e BusailahFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home-as place, as people, as body, and as language.A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies...