Poetry

In Little Estuaries, Daniel Kramb goes in search for what's fleeting between the shores. Amid a constantly shifting sense of what can be seen, sensed, experienced, the poet probes the estuary as sphere: an opening up, a possibility. Whittled down,...

"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not included in the original edition, as well as the new poems discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822954286Author Robin BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367414Author Maura DoolyFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 40g

In this collection Paul Berry evokes settings with a strong sense of place and past. Against such backgrounds he explores universal themes of family, love, loss and longing. The strength of these poems is to highlight landscapes and the people who live...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909357761Author Jill SharpFormat 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 9781904556930Author Theo DorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 250g

A lyrical collection of the finest poems by a leading Mexican poet, superbly translated for English readers "A literary event. . . . [Baranda's] work provides a bestiary as fierce as those found in the Odyssey, Beowulf, or The Waste Land."-Merrill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908998712Author Keith JarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 39Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 61gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Longlisted, Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardOn "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould":"The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for what it plainly...

Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990961977Author Kobus MoolmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dryad PressPublisher Dryad PressWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 6mm

Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language. He takes inspiration from...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781501178320Author HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Emily Bestler BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 17mm

This book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets--Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery--who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909769236Author Humphrey JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Dark Windows PressPublisher Dark Windows PressWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739173050Author Karl RiordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082693Author John BerrymanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724675Author Amy WackPage Count 24Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228822684Author Dara NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

In Columbarium, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium...

'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions,...

One day, crawling under stones in the garden, Callum spies Henrietta the woodlouse. Callum is determined to find her a home, and stop her from getting squashed. With the help of his sister, they try all sorts of different homes for Henrietta. But no...

The latest in Arc's Translation Series brings poems from Sigurdur Palsson's ten collections written between 1980 and 2008 to a UK audience.Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living and its connections to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578642796Author HydrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint HydrusPublisher HydrusWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Middle English Medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555972684Author Tony HoaglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 147g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967542409Author Frank X WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Old Cove PressPublisher Old Cove Press

In DS (2)-Dreamstories 2-Kamau Brathwaite continues his ongoing collection of prose poems, comprised of the broken images, flow, and half-told stories of dreams. The poetic stories in DS (2) use Brathwaite's trademark sycorax video style, offering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903392539Author Jack W. WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606299Author Todd SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Legna Rodriguez Iglesias has quickly become one of the most celebrated Cuban poets writing today. Her intense - often confrontational - poetry refuses to conform, subverting expectations and challenging social mores. Particularly arresting is her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957254Author John O'DonohueFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

A ground breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry containing the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm, and colorful images.Ads in Rain Taxi and other...

The poems of ancient Tamil are one of India's most important contributions to world literature. Presented here in English translation is a selection of roughly three hundred poems from five of the earliest poetic anthologies of classical Tamil literature...

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. Like Bits...

Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy. In Atomism in the Aeneid,...

On Walking On looks outward onto-or rather, walks through-the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walkers is striking, and the connection goes back to...