Poetry

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a...

This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of current debates about post-modernism, poetry and politics, and the figure of woman in Irish political discourse. Close readings of the work of Tom Paulin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735376844Author C ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint C. ChurchillPublisher C. ChurchillWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394758527Author Lucie Brock-BroidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 126gDimensions(mm)...

The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language, Thomas's singular poetic voice has been admired and...

"The publication of Decimale blanche in 1967 marked a major shift in French poetry, introducing an entirely new sensibility. Fifty years later, Norma Cole's superb new translation is no less exciting. Not only is it a masterful rendition of this classic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876648Author Jean AtkinFormat PaperbackImprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853066Author John Wedgwood ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressWeight(grams) 50g

Poems considering self, masculinity, and culture through the spectacle of professional wrestling. In this stunning debut, John Belk looks at the world of professional wrestling to excavate the real within the artificial and explore the projections we...

"This Is How You Disappear" is Jeremy Reed's most autobiographical book to date, and one in which he celebrates the dead and missing friends who were the formative and enduring influences on his life as a poet.About the AuthorJeremy Reed was born in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955939549Author Wilfrid GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Wagtail PressPublisher Wagtail Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486906Author Ron SlateFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University PressWeight(grams)...

A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central EuropeArc Publications Translations Series (parallel-text)A bilingual anthology, with a preface by Vaclav Havel, published by Arc Publications in association with the UK-based international organisation...

"This is a marvellous collection filled with a lovely and evocative music. Highly recommended."Library ReviewSince the publication of her first collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum has steadily created a rich body of poems, mining the rich...

In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of power,...

Intimate and truthful, the poems in Sally Read's second collection move from the very earliest and most delicate stages of life, to the many adjustments of adulthood. Always startlingly honest, the pains of closeness and separation, love and mortality...

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 9781912436439Author Andrea Witzke SlotFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724934Author Damian Walford DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle poque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027704Author Eleni VakaloFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 200g

A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable...

Since Kwame Dawes first published his prestigious Forward Poetry prize-winning Progeny of Air in 1994, six further collections have followed which have changed the face of Caribbean poetry. New and Selected Poems contains a generous selection from all...

This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of a haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre that took place in Poland in...

Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale-telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous...

Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States-now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible one. Both reverent and daring, this verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written...

Landsmoder, by the Salvadoran poet, historian, and performance artist Elena Salamanca, is a searing, and sometimes grotesque, exploration of the intersections between nationalism, dogma, patriarchy, and violence. Originally read aloud from the oldest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398447943Author MJ FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The Months is a book of poems about time - not only the attritions of time, its ageings, conflicts and illnesses, but also, and more importantly, the kind of time the French philosopher Bergson called 'duration', a human time that speeds up or slows,...

This third collection of poems by Shaun Traynor maintains his high standard of perfection in verse. It is an emotional narrative of love lost, love regained. It is a love story, but there are also poems of truly beautiful pastoral observations. The title...

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, "a consistently inspiring and exciting voice" (Morgan Parker) In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history-especially the provenance of objects such as...

Deborah Landau's fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bull's-eye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet on which all inhabitants...

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the author's gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing...

** New revised edition now available, with errors corrected and content fully updated ** MRI Registry Review: Tech to Tech Questions and Answers is a comprehensive question and answer book designed to help scanning technologists pass their MRI Board...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630956Author Catriona ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614737Author Patrick DeeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 335g

This is an exciting and original study on the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a "meaning" that extends...

Since the appearance of Timothy Steele's first collection of poems in 1979, growing numbers of readers and critics have recognized him as one of the best and most significant poets of his generation. Widely credited with anticipating and encouraging the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606068Author Jeffrey LoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press