Poetry

Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. The first comprehensive collection in thirty years to translate this master European poet for an English-speaking audience, "The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075675Author Hollie McNishFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297131Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 199mm * 37mm *...

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for...

Men Who Feed Pigeons brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women's relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975395Author Mary Jo BangFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm *...

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? ...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright.About the AuthorChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare's birth. He wrote seven...

Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer - perhaps none - do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, the author of My Bright Abyss and an award-winning poet, lays the motion of...

Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on...

The memories from which Fred D'Aguiar translates these poems are cultural and personal, from the anciencies of the Gilgamesh epic to the modern world, from classical philosophy to C.L.R. James and Aime Cesaire, from Asia and Europe to the new world in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692920459Author Sylvester McNutt IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Success Is a Choice LLC.Publisher Success Is a Choice LLC.Weight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629966591Author David HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898707168Author Laura M. BerquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997035698Author Ann Marie EleazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603811026Author Contributor Peter G BeidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Coffeetown PressPublisher Coffeetown PressWeight(grams)...

Jacqueline Saphra's All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes - as a magician with a...

The Games is a book of play with language. In Scots and English, it mucks about with sound poetry, found poetry, computer-generated poetry, dirty poetry and others ways to blur and bust the borders of genre. Its themes are ecology, power and sex: how can...

From the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians, to the collective suffering of a nation, Anna Akhmatova spoke to, and for, the soul of her people. This magnificent edition includes: more than 800 poems, half of them available in no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614297208Author John BrehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun--only the broad sky, silent sea, and...

This is another book of humorous verse by the Australian poet, Barbara Binland. Have a nice cup of tea, and enjoy a light read.Book InformationISBN 9780244098223Author Barbara BinlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998267586Author Mayrocker FriederikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Public SpacePublisher A Public Space

It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door, summoning the boys. Today is St. Stephen's Day, when legend has it that the Saint was betrayed by a wren's...

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World...

"I found this book to be beautifully expressed in artwork as well as Scripture and if you are looking for someone to help take you on a journey of growth, this book will not disappoint." Christy Wimber Sometimes, God likes to speak to us powerfully...

The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear...

Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his `Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called 'a trifle, and that triflingly handled', reflects their youthful vitality. The `Old'...

In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and...

A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. In our times of crisis The mind has its powers This...

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one...

Clark Coolidge's book-length meditation on a crystal-long considered a masterpiece of American avant-garde poetry-returns in a new edition."No other poet ever has so exquisitely, and sometimes also turbulently, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry...

A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These...

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. 'Zima Junction' vividly...

From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a country where poetry was literally a matter of life and...

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern...

The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh's inception, evolution, and...