Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954989927Author Stephen Robert KutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Re-invention UKPublisher Loma Publishing

The Curiosities is the eleventh book of poems from this most inventive and celebrated of British poets. Clustering around the letter 'C', the seventy-some poems that comprise this collection celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter...

When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, having published only a tiny selection of her verse anonymously in journals and newspapers, she left behind a chest containing almost 1,800 poems written on notebooks and loose sheets. Her family members, starting with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394404585Author Walter BentonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 165mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721568Author Sheenagh PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Written in memory of her mother, who died of motor neurone disease in 2012, the poems of Requiem roughly cover the timespan of an illness, death, and burial. The formal structure is based on the Catholic Requiem Mass as it has been set as a choral piece...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739702922Author Misha HoncharenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press

The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis consists of analyses of thirty-three musical passages or entire short works in a variety of post-tonal styles. For each piece author Joseph N. Straus shows how it is put together and what sense might be made of it: how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878084326Author James P DretkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint William Carey Library PublishersPublisher William Carey Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781364767891Author Verbal EssenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781389418501Author Eva SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 263g

The monumental sense of dislocation we experience after losing a loved one can be life-altering. There is no script for grieving--each individual passes through their own phases of mourning. In this personal narrative, psychologist Beatriz Dujovne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593222Author Matthew ZapruderFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. "Lee...

A cautionary tale with depth and humour, A Garden on Top of the World is environmental fiction for ages 12 and up. Includes resources on gardening, urban gardens, heirloom seeds and organic foods. The year is 2066 and life in Greenland is much warmer,...

Felix and Livia are being pursued across the Roman empire, from the darkest, dampest corner of Gaul to the dry, desert sands of Tadmor. They must reach Rome by the Ides of April to rescue Livia's brother before he is sent into the arena to do battle with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911673088Author Lara TupperFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms PressWeight(grams) 138g

In its literary impact, Montale's Xenia, published in 1966 in an edition of just 50 copies, might be described as Italy's The Waste Land. This now-famous sequence came in profound response to the death, in 1963, of his beloved wife whom he nicknamed...

Formally inventive and intricately composed, Asteronymes is a book of redactions - and an elegy for places and people that have been ruined by time, erosion or neglect. Asteronyme, n. (French). A sequence of asterisks used to hide a name or password.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113658Author Kathryn GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723302Author Tony CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her other work. The reader always gets the feeling that she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2020. Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781556594861Author Jericho BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128762Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592973Author Benjamin Alire SaenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Reading the West (Poetry) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781556592997Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper...

Mikey, the dog who saved the whole worlds...Cedric, the punk dragon who lost his flame...the troll who gets his revenge on the pesky goats.. The young toad who helps the witch with her spells....The wolf who get's his revenge on spoilt Red Riding Hood.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768245298Author Shirlene J. WoodburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 130g

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught...

A book of cosmological surrealism in the tradition of Octavio Paz, Solar Poems is the first English translation of a single volume of poems by Mexico's famed poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis, exploring political consciousness as well as visionary...

"Gr-r-r--there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would not mine kill you!" The bitter and twisted monk of `Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' is Browning's best-known...

John Lydgate is known as the most distinguished poet of fifteenth-century England. This volume presents his brilliant and underappreciated dramatic texts written for both private and public entertainment, encompassing both religious and secular topics...

Since the publication of his first collection, "Rough Seas", in 1987, Tom Pow has been recognised as one of Scotland's foremost contemporary poets; lyrical, celebratory and sensitive to the world around him. "In The Becoming, New and Selected Poems"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930448Author Alex MacDonaldPage Count 24Imprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 204mm * 156mm * 1mm

In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallas's darkly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933959269Author Hugo Garcia ManriquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Litmus Press/Aldus EditorialPublisher Litmus Press/Aldus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540115Author Professor Grace CavalieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

An Empowering Book of Poems and EssaysFans of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, Her by Pierre Alex Jeanty, Whiskey Words and a Shovel by r.h. Sin, and The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace will love The Boyfriend Book by Michael E. Reid. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907356766Author Lynne WycherleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro here presents fresh English versions of poems by three of Western literature's most gifted and prolific poets-the French Renaissance writers Clement Marot, Joachim Du Bellay, and Pierre de Ronsard. Writing in the...