Poetry

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853363Author Kelley SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressWeight(grams) 130g

In No One's Witness Syd Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan-"No one / bears witness for the / witness"-to theorize the poetics and im/possibility of witnessing. Drawing on black studies, continental...

Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But...

Featured on BBC Newsnight Review Mono-browed cousins, clandestine paperboys, murderous action heroes and Swiss euthanasia clinics jostle for position in Ross Sutherland's intelligent and wildly entertaining debut collection of poetry. Sutherland charts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551204Author Michael ThornFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

An exhilarating and powerful poetry pamphlet, that is as direct as it is accomplished. Loose the smouldering arrow: start the fire. While the prey-birds circle, drench my pyre with precious oils and let me blaze once more. (from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565504Author Asma ElbadawiFormat PaperbackImprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressWeight(grams) 116g

A wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play-all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.In three poems, one play, and three short stories, Stephane Bouquet's Common Life offers a lively, searching vision of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566872Author Kamal BoullataFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality. These poems range across the varied...

Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477104Author Ken EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811218870Author Forrest GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

A native of the Bay Area, Ross J. Farrar is an internationally renowned singer, songwriter, and lyricist for the post-punk band, Ceremony. In his debut book of poetry, Farrar conjures a narrative voice that evokes Alan Vega of the band Suicide and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061726491Author Nikki GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592898Author Michael DickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 155g

Impulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical / carnage. This is my excuse for everything.Intensive and extensive, aboutness convenes across geographies and temporalities, in conversation with interlocutors living and dead, real and...

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 9780992740924Author Thomas Orszag-LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 140g

The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press are delighted to announce the arrival of Primers Volume Three, the third year of an annual scheme which creates a unique opportunity for talented poets to find publication and receive a programme of supportive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943888184Author Devendra Obi BanhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Featherproof Books LLCPublisher Featherproof Books LLCWeight(grams)...

A remarkable new selection in translation from the preeminent Turkish poet, Haydar Ergulen. The poems have been translated by a team of 13 translators, who include the co-editors of the book.Book InformationISBN 9781912681426Author Haydar ErgulenFormat...

Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) is a collection of sonnets by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written between 1845 and 1846, Sonnets from the Portuguese is a series of love poems written by Browning to her husband, the prominent Victorian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487007799Author Robert MacFarlaneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,CanadaPublisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

North in the World presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish...

A moving lyric meditation on the Congo River that explores the identity, chaos, and wonder of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as race and the detritus of colonialism.With The River in the Belly, award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952744481Author John SiddiqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint The RialtoPublisher The Rialto

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035807505Author Shanaz HosanyFormat HardbackPage Count 54Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

For two thousand years in China, the empires of politics and of the written word cohabited and depended on one another. The Chinese classics became the bedrock of political and cultural legitimacy, which was centred on the empire's great capital cities...

Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only twenty-two million people has kept its rich poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433800Author Ra'ad AbdulqadirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 202g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723159Author Judy BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

In Stranger we journey from people to places, visiting creatures, objects and conditions, all of which are odd, slightly off-kilter, seen from a unusual perspective... Linguistically deft and formally inventive, the poems challenge us to reflect on the...

Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutece, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that flits between past and present and offers both adoration and horror in equal measure. Elsewhere, London 'licks and laps'; an...

Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692277058Author Leslea NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Headmistress PressPublisher Headmistress PressWeight(grams) 159g