Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692352Author Satish KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press

In this captivating collection of poetry, celebrated poets Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, along with illustrator Richard Jones, explore the wonders of nature in a spirited and magical way - and invite our imaginations out to play.This stunning gift-book...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019Ada Limon is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, Guardian'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140195811Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

The perfect gift for anyone in your life, or a wonderful source of comfort for the self - this is a wonderfully heartfelt collection of thoughts and blessings that will heal, inspire, comfort and move. When you need a poem or a blessing to find strength,...

I like a dog at my feet when I read,whatever his size or whatever his breed.A dog now and then that will nuzzle my handAs though I were the greatest of men in the land,And trying to tell me it's pleasant to beOn such intimate terms with a fellow like me...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986827560Author MaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965618366Author David BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Drag CityPublisher Drag City

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Boston Book Review (Poetry) 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780374525996Author Frank BidartFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher...

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory.Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story, Orion Carloto invites readers to...

A celebrated French bestseller, this novel in verse that captures the mundane and the beautiful, the blood and sweat, of working on the factory floor in the processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus...

#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose...

In a nationwide poll to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If...' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together the results of the poll in a collection of the nation's 100 best loved poems. Among the selection are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916206694Author Alexandra HeardFormat PaperbackImprint Tractorland LtdPublisher Tractorland Ltd

The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love,...

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

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 *...

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 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...

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...

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 &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645470564Author Matty WeingastFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

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...

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...

*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWFor those looking for inspiration, peace and acceptance on the bumpy road that is life, Donna Ashworth's poems give insight into the...

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

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...

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also...

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...

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 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...

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

'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'...

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...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY POST AND iPAPER BESTSELLERAnd I have done more than just simply get bySo much more than escape or surviveThrough the galvanisation of love, time and patienceI'll take hold of my story and thrive.After life that...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN 'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG 'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe bestselling collection of...

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...