Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350290828Author Farrukh DhondyFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 180mm...

If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837940448Author Jim McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with the #1?New York Times bestselling edition of the classic poem written by Clement C. Moore. This is the...

From baker, beekeeper and birdwatcher to falconer, farrier and forager, join poet Angus and printmaker Lilly as they explore the British Isles, uncovering and celebrating our crafts and traditions. This collection of...

Jamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to...

Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she strikes out again in new directions, taking nothing for...

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include...

The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and...

THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE is the first anthology ever to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish history, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196120Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996242776Author Nancy GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Brave WriterPublisher Brave WriterWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 9mm

This book is a complete edition of the authentic poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert Southwell, offering new texts based on the very manuscripts which were circulated in secret among English Catholics in the...

US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904373Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2021 Special Commendation. Edited by Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe, this is the latest in Carcanet's celebrated introductory anthology series presenting work by two dozen poets writing in English from around the world...

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world...

After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience. This selection provides an ideal introduction to the...

A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving future...

The death of Michael Donaghy in 2004 at the age of fifty robbed poetry of one of its best-loved and most naturally gifted practitioners. A modern metaphysical, Donaghy wrote poetry of great wisdom, grace, charm, erudition and consummate technical...

Following on from her Forward prize-winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062015273Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885140Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956923943Author James LowFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Simply BeingPublisher Simply BeingWeight(grams) 540g

'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and...

Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi's debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother's death but her work...

Monumental verse.The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692974735Author Wilder PoetryFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Too Big WorldPublisher Too Big WorldWeight(grams) 966g

AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the...

In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it...

'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth'A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...

Reading the Flowers began during Linda France's 2010-11 Leverhulme Residency at Moorbank, Newcastle University's Botanic Garden (now closed). This led to a tour of Botanic Gardens in the UK and abroad. Here nature and culture meet in poems looking at...

Haiku - seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity - have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735631Author Brenna TwohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 8mm

Through the linked pieces of The Coral Sea, Patti Smith honors her comrade-in-arms Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). She tells the story of a man on an ocean journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251614Author Pat BoranFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788888934365Author Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame 'Hadraawi'Format PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ponte InvisibilePublisher Ponte InvisibileWeight(grams) 190g

Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his...

With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a book of surprising connections, echoes and...