Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879009Author Vanessa PlaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905082636Author Eddie LindenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114280Author Robert SeatterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908998248Author Marion McCreadyFormat HardbackPage Count 77Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

Robert Peake's incredible eye for detail illuminates a collection of stirring and delicately attuned poems that not only roam but actively seek - travelling far and wide to all manner of places but also moving through time, taking leaps of faith or...

Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), "Whether we hear giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii or chick-a-dee-dee-dee depends on how we have been taught to listen. Our world is...

In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood and grace-and, in doing so, creates a...

In 1927, a writer in the "Radio Times" declared it unsurprising that poets should write about radio, 'for the new magic, which pours the music of the concert room into the stillness of the cottage and brings the song of nightingales into the heart of...

Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than...

Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians explores the profound connections between medicine and poetry through the eyes of contemporary physician-poets. These one hundred poems record instances of pain and recovery, joy and grief, humor and irony within the...

Small World tells a story of the changing relationship between a father and his two daughters, one severely disabled, a 'mermaid in a wheelchair', the other discovering the difference of her elder sister, the 'moon' to her 'earth'. Each succeeding poem...

Throughout Rake, Matthew Caley's fifth collection, it can appear as if we are glimpsing into the oblique diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, one who is seeking his 'one true beloved' through an heroic tally of amorous encounters, desperately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535773Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 91g

The Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter;...

Miriam Gamble's second collection takes its title from unlicensed broadcasting. Here, the marginalia of prophecy coexist with and counter voices of authority, voices that are at once eerie and depressingly recognisable. An artist steals back paintings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555147Author Molly McCully BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Dublin's writers rarely remain solemn for long: their wicked sense of humour has travelled the world. This is an irresistible new anthology of what used to be called 'comic and curious verse' about the city, written by some of her most entertaining poets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398493254Author Christopher WhybrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416589020Author James L. KugelFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 411gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783947980Author Amy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Deadtree PublishingPublisher Copyright Group LtdWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976161264Author Kit RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Adventures in PoetryPublisher Adventures in PoetryWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)...

From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance, whose...

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain's Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367544Author Carole BromleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781388316525Author Liz KamilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

"Marianne Chan's brilliant debut collection masterfully develops themes of identity and the long-term effects of colonization." -Largehearted Boy All Heathens is a declaration of ownership-of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan's voyage...

Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the...

This is the second poem to appear from among a small set entitled The Calendar. Each book relates to the others as the points, not in a line, but of a star: none need be considered as first or last. In Jerusalem Deleted a city, once thought broken, is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595127Author Laura KasischkeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Shortlisted for The 2019 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. Heroines from Abroad introduces a vibrant new voice to the English language. Christine Marendon's enigmatic, meditative poems, translated here from the German and collected for the...

The poems in Mary O'Malley's new collection focus on legal separation: of Northern from Southern Ireland, of written Irish from its original script, and of husband from wife. The book explores a season in hell when the verities vanish, the love we live...

Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913499242Author Lucy CrispinFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Hedgehog Poetry PressPublisher Hedgehog Poetry PressWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948268496Author Denis DevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 605g

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

The three sequences in the book-"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"-show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Amerindian lore and other interconnections East and West,...

Love, lust, loss, art and myth - all find their way into Alan Kellermann's stylish debut collection. Here, the worlds of America and Wales collide, the sacred and the profane sit side by side and the paintings of Tony Goble are startlingly animated...

In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety,...

From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. These formally ambitious poems and lyric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464142072Author Timothy John SandersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 2mm