Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068977Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 6mm

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2023 exams Everything you need to revise for GCSE 9-1...

A Poem For Every Night of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share for every night of the year.The poems - together with introductory paragraphs - have a link to the date on which they appear. Shakespeare...

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible...

Heir to Mallarme and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valery was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the...

Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first timeThe Divine Comedy...

Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss...

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a...

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

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the...

STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRY'S MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, MYTHOS'A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-telling best . . . the gods will be pleased'...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340065Author L E BowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 15mm

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of...

AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS.'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient...

'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and...

Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068793Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 159mm * 9mm

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began...

This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807066096Author Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...'By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.By turns joyful and despairing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Silver PressPublisher Silver Press

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David...

This is the ideal book for anyone who feels they need to reacquaint themselves with their faith, to re-establish a firmer relationship with God and to reap the rewards of praying. Split into thematic sections, the books provides prayers of thanks and...

With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2023 exams Everything you need to revise for GCSE 9-1...

Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing. This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page. You...

Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Spring Day, you will find verse that will transport you to vivid spring-time scenes, taking you from the first sighting of blossoms to Easter.The poems are selected from Allie...

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic...

Lucille Clifton's poetry carries her deep concerns for the world's children, the stratification of American society, those people lost or forgotten amid the crushing race of Western materialism and technology. In turns sad, troubled and angry, her voice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399917148Author Isabella DortaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Isabella DortaPublisher Isabella DortaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glimpse to the person behind the glamour and drama . . . you get a real sense of the beating soul of Megan Fox' Glamour'A wry and moody meditation on sadness and heartbreak' Vogue'[Fox] opens up in poetic detail and...

'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of...

Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an...

Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first...

THE BEST OF THE BEST OF BUKOWSKIThe Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising...

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money-investing, personal finance, and business decisions-is typically taught as a math-based field,...

*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWA book for the passionate and warm-hearted among us, Love explores every type of affection and helps us to nurture our most precious...