Poetry

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...

Writing in The Hudson Review, David Mason has characterized Lorna Goodison's work as a "revelation to me, much of it beautiful for its simple negotiation of the line between life and art." One of the most distinguished ...

Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as 'one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry' (Kommersant'). In her recent work the elegant and ironic narrator meditates on love, disappointment and loss against the backdrop of Russia's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385615Author Andrew FrisardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In her most autobiographical collection to date, Kate Noakes explores the pain of losing a long-built life and the joys of exploring a new one. This is a howl that ends with a hallelujah.Press and Events: Book launch planned at the Poetry Cafe,...

First published in 1931, ViVa contains four of E. E. Cummings' most experimental poems as well as some of his most memorable. The volume includes such no-famous celebrations as "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "if there are any heavens my mother will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692936078Author Patrick D HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Rad Press PublishingPublisher Rad Press PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907133336Format PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Dog Horn PublishingPublisher Dog Horn PublishingWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953597021Author Train RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Train River PublishingPublisher Train River PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

Julian Lockhardt, the bombastic, heavy-drinking expat manager of the Samarang Hotel - the most prestigious hotel in Vientiane - is short on self-awareness, long on self-pity, and society, so he believes, has failed him. He is easily seduced by Asia's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367704Author Tom SastryFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 65g

"Ice Memory" is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach, whose poems, full of sound and light, documenting the wealth...

In this luminous collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker casts her eye on history, politics and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem and the Dalai Lama, she reminds readers of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037378Author Ann LauterbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 251gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

In 'Catching the Cascade', his long awaited debut collection, Paul Lyalls presents verse that documents his long career as a performing poet, exploring the motifs of childhood, love, consumerism, second hand cars and his native North. His punchy,...

W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration of, and differing reactions to, the concept of the unknowable or unconditioned, first developed by Sir William Hamilton in the 1829. The...

'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,...

After over a decade working as a musician under the name Kae Sun, Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr. makes a full-blooded return to the bones of his craft - poetic exploration and wordplay. His debut pamphlet, Flood Season, begins with seeds of perennial flooding,...

Capturing his inimitable voice-provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at once-the poems in Dome of the Hidden Pavilion demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering...

Jane Kenyon is one of America's best loved poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favourite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print and is already considered a...

Geoffrey Hill is University Professor at Boston University. He holds an honorary D. Litt. from the University of Leeds and is an Honorary Fellow of both Keble College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Amongst many other recognitions of his work as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995638846Author William PalmerFormat PaperbackImprint Rack PressPublisher Rack Press

The Chinese poetic tradition, which dates back to almost 1,000 B.C., is one of the most cherished parts of the nation's cultural heritage. This collection of translated classical poems are a stunning chronicle of Chinese life, culture and history, and...

For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this "sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary" (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending...

Call and Response is a sequence of sonnets from the perspective of a daughter, addressed to her mother during her mother's illness. Hard-edged yet tender, the poems explore the darker side of familial bonds and the strange ways suffering can heal old...

In this meditative and incisive collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems...

Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press, Al Que Quiere! was William Carlos Williams's breakthrough book and contains some of his best-loved poems ("Tract," "Apology," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "January Morning," and "Smell!"), as well as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938221019Author Karen GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Siglio PressPublisher Siglio Press

The first English translation of the oldest extant work in Apabhramsha, a literary language from medieval India, recounting the story of the Ramayana.The Life of Padma, or the Paumacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724583Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex...

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 9780971400344Author Gail Rudd EntrekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Poetic Matrix PressPublisher Poetic Matrix PressWeight(grams) 122g

Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent dispatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor than by wild conceits, semantic leaps,...