Poetry

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063873Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 140mm * 8mm

At the age of five, Margaret Sherlock decided to give herself a haircut with a cutthroat razor. It was the start of a lifelong obsession with hairstyling. In 1945, as a fifteen-year-old, she cycled daily to her hairdressing apprenticeship in Northern...

'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the world'- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'Since the crisis hit...

Green Shoots Rising is an exciting and stimulating collection of poems aimed primarily at primary age children. It's full of thought provoking and amusing poems which children, and adults will love. The 'green shoots' of the title are a play on words...

America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943512034Author Wendy E SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wendy E. SlaterPublisher Wendy E. SlaterWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398493261Author Christopher WhybrowFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets, by William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, is available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping,...

'Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven't a clue whom I should tell'From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and...

'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and...

The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of haiku and other later forms. The sound of the Japanese texts i reproduced in Romaji script and the names of the poets in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)...

The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593192Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g

Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Merchant's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.Student...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648705710Author Ziggy AlbertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Commonfolk PublishingPublisher Commonfolk Publishing

Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection...

Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -...

The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, and the haiku poet most familiar to English readers; Yosa Buson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982200954Author Shelly Sykes-ColeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa Press

Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man...

Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map...

Entertainment with the emphasis on "tert". Since running away from home at the age of 28, award winning writer Hovis Presley (the award wasn't for writing) has found fame as the inventor of the bra-less strap and the individually wrapped baked bean. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068878Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life-including self-doubt and writer's block-are here, along...

The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After publishing two extraordinary poetry collections - and six...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the...

'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496988Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

You may take my ballsBut I will lick what remainsAnd then, dear, your faceImagine if your dog could talk to you. Better still, imagine if it could express its innermost feelings in poetic form. This hilarious, insightful book confirms what we've all long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068755Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 158mm * 7mm

Social media sensation Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude...

Enjoy the unmatched beauty of the King James Version combined with the readability of Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print (R) typeface, all in a Bible that includes over 73,000 cross references and the Apocrypha.In this edition, the literary...

Los Angeles Times Book PrizePEN Voelcker AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book PrizeNew York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books NPR's Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistNational Book Critics Circle, FinalistGriffin Poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g

Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience through the...

This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical...

The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about...