Poetry

In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In 2007 Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence...

The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands.Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse...

Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the pastoral tradition.In Irredenta, Oscar Oswald raises the prospect of pastoral opposition to state power, elaborating and investigating the genre through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130178Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 875g

Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of dream-life, mystery and music, sexual obsession and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530011Author Don MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804395165Author Kit AllsoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

There is something richly circumstantial about Alison Brackenbury's poems: they are often rooted in a rural world, or in townscapes which sustain communities and preserve a strong sense of their history and what it gives them. Thorpeness has delicious...

Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir's poetry bears...

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2018I could not be held responsiblefor desirehe could not be held at allTracking the joys and pains of the path through addiction, and wrestling with...

A Washington Post 2021 Non-Fiction Book of the Year New York Times Review of Books Editors' Choice Non-Fiction Title Longlisted for the 2022 PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett...

From Paul Cookson comes 100 Brilliant Poems For Children, featuring the best of the absolute best. The essential poems for every child to read and enjoy.Essential poems for children, compiled by bestselling poet Paul CooksonAbout the AuthorPaul Cookson...

An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even...

The 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. It became a phenomenon. Hundreds of poets took up the challenge and their poems swept the board of poetry prizes, publications and personal successes.This book brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022 (India).Book InformationISBN 9781913738389Author Sudeep SenFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Pippa Rann Books &...

Short and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion,...

The Gorgeous Nothings - the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear - is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of...

#IAmHerTribe creator Danielle Doby shares her poetry for the first time in a collection long anticipated by her followers. Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that...

I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don't lose your place. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735204Author Sabrina BenaimFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author amanda lovelace presents the women are some kind of magic boxed set - a beautiful and empowering trilogy guaranteed to awaken your inner goddess. All three volumes of the women are some...

Theresa Lola's debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving. Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714351Author Alice Leccese PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm)...

'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075156Author Sean SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem excepting Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. These poems explore many different kinds of love: sexual,...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic...

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her...

The Best Poetry Book in the World is a collection of popular poems from published poets from the last five years.Celebrating Burning Eye's 5th birthday, this anthology brings together all the anthems, the foot stompers, finger clickers, belly laughing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999752722Author Emily BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Adam GasiewskiPublisher Adam GasiewskiWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods and moments: from the first...

See the kitten, how she starts,Crouches, stretches, paws and darts;With a tiger-leap half wayNow she meets her coming prey.Lets it go as fast and thenHas it in her power again.From 'The Kitten at Play' by William WordsworthCurious, enigmatic and playful,...

'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and...

First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic...

The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century "Exeter Book" are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation...

In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at...