Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591525Author Stephen BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 113g

It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed...

'Madame Martin will throw back her shutters at eight...' With these words Beverley Bie Brahic opens The Hotel Eden, a book about seeing the world. She moves through - Paris, the French provinces, the American west coast - in the spirit of a flaneur,...

'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max PorterIn his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores his deep interest in place and the natural world to excavate the emotional impact...

Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting...

There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9780156983501Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620792271Author Megan RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint UhlangaPublisher UhlangaWeight(grams) 122g

After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience. This selection provides an ideal introduction to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727553Author Kathryn BevisFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 150g

With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563263Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743201100Author Yoko OnoFormat HardbackImprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683835875Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594779Author Richard SikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525577157Author Florence WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown ArchetypePublisher Crown ArchetypeWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 178mm...

IMAGINE SANDALS ON YOUR FEET, A SWORD IN YOUR HAND, HOT SUN BEATING DOWN ON YOUR BRONZE HELMET. ENTER THE WORLD OF STEPHEN FRY'S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, HEROES'An odyssey through Greek mythology. Brilliant . . . all hail Stephen Fry' Daily...

The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373997Author Denise RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957769Author SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 551g

Brief poems describe nature, mortality, a missing child, the lives of animals, and the beauty of the seasons.Book InformationISBN 9780316650045Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown &...

'The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original' The TimesAfter a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary...

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692260Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nothing short of dazzling' - Alex Turner, musician and frontman of the Arctic Monkeys'A big-hearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable style' - Kit Fan, GuardianDr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan'...

'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924201Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The...

A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year.Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for...

When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, The Washington Post)—critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, The New...

Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language...

'The Faber Book of Beasts is a generous and intelligent round- up of old favourites, new juxtapositions, and poems we mightn't know about ... Will set heads shaking, as well as nodding with pleasure.' Independent William Wordsworth's 'To a Skylark'W.B...

A brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year.Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella...

A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the...

'Truly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder - the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss'...

Exam Board: Edexcel, AQA, OCR & WJEC Eduqas Level: GCSE 9-1 Subject: English Suitable for the 2023 exams Complete revision and practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937512859Author Paul KingsnorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Two Dollar RadioPublisher Two Dollar Radio