Poetry

A sister volume to the poetry collection She is Fierce this is a stunning gift book featuring 130 poems written by women. With poems from classic, well loved poets as well as innovative and bold modern voices, She Will Soar is a stunning collection and...

A flurry of festive verse, We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Other Festive Poems is a collection selected and intricately, beautifully illustrated by Chris Riddell, the beloved author and illustrator behind Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse...

WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo it? In these daring and sonorous poems, Anaxagorou conducts a researched unpacking of two countries whose dividing lines of a colonial past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301517Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003619Author Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's...

The tragic cycle of justice.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also at Salamis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947917132Author Mikis TheodorakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint FomitePublisher FomiteWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Poems to celebrate the winter season.A wonderful bedside companion for a frosty winter's evening, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Shakespeare to John Keats to Katherine Mansfield, the finest poets that ever put pen to paper...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2023 The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep undercurrents: of embodied and disembodied spiritualities; of the knowledge of animals; of familial mythologies;...

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the...

"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James...

From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves.A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.About the AuthorBorn in New Brunswick, N.J., and later moving to Florida, r.h...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578845418Author Jeannette EnciniasFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Jeannette EnciniasPublisher Jeannette EnciniasWeight(grams) 145g

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age. Arranged in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433496Author Andrew RidgwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A special hardcover gift edition of Courtney Peppernell's bestselling Pillow Thoughts! Originally published in 2017, Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. Since its release, an ethereal and...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692139653Author Allen VartanianFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint From Art to AshesPublisher From Art to AshesWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470616161Author Jean DonaldsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens,...

A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in...

This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. It includes some of the greatest poems in the...

A comprehensive step-by-step guide for teachers and students on how to complete a Personal Fitness Programme / Personal Training Programme as part of either the WJEC or Eduqas GCSE PE course. It can be used to both plan delivery and to support...

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his...

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of our time, as well as one of the finest religious poets in the English language and Wales's greatest poet. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764956102Author Michiko WarkentyneFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598784Author Katharine TowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound...

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE*After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillan's third book marks a shift: both inward, into the difficult...

New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, presents a revised and expanded edition of his bestseller I Hope This Reaches Her in Time.There will come a time when the weariness of your soul will urge you to seek out a sign, some sort of indication that...

The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.'I am the womanoffering two flowerswhose roots are twin.Justice and HopeHope and JusticeLet us begin'Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she...

Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. . Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough. These exuberant poems welcome...

Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader-The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.About the...

Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.But this volume offers something unique. For...

Dog lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness and unbridled enthusiasm of their canine pals in this hilarious collection of poems by lovable, if sometimes misguided, dogs. In these tongue-in-cheek poems, the author who successfully interpreted the...

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words...

In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her...