Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Myfanwy Haycock (1913-1963) mapped out a career as one of Wales's most talented female poets during the mid-twentieth century and was dubbed as 'Gwent's second voice' at the age of nineteen. A skilled illustrator, journalist and broadcaster, Haycock...

The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie. Here are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645619102Author Hannah OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Orchard Lea BooksPublisher Orchard Lea BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony. In this bilingual collection of...

Longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 2023 by the League of Canadian Poets. Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the...

The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, it recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy,...

Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary. His generous Introduction, a lively yet masterly guide...

A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous ... intense ... shimmering ... [an] unforgettable collection' Observer'Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking' Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto & Othered Poems'Brave .....

This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the...

WINNER OF THE MICHAEL MURPHY MEMORIAL PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEIn the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598869Author Brigit Strawbridge HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060604523Author Coleman BarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Iain Morrison's debut collection I'm a Pretty Circler is experimental without being intimidating; conversational without being casual; and outrageous without shedding tenderness. Within its pages, Emily Dickinson rubs shoulders with drag queens, while...

Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore...

Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American...

Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets...

Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie alongside emerging...

For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593319192Author Anthony HechtFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Limbic is Peter Scalpello's glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slippery nights out fuelled by chemsex, on drunken lads' holidays, and into the quiet violence of small domestic moments, this is a world where tracksuits hide...

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things - a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's latest book takes the reader on an...

What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing? Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, combines...

Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598975Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Four 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 plays...

John Ashbery's "Collected Poems 1956-1987" contains the complete text of the poet's first twelve books, from "Some Trees" (1956), selected for publication by W.H. Auden, to "April Galleons" (1987), and including "The Vermont Notebook" (1975) with the...

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...

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'They summoned their friends, readiedtheir horses, and prepared their...

Addressing the loss of the poet's mother - as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death, and the natural world - Scenes from Life on Earth explores how we grieve and remember those we love. Simmonds continues to write through the prism of her faith,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595288Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A Goodreads Readers Choice Award SemifinalistFrom acclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917456Author Catherine GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9780156983501Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143420781Author Lal DedFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux's trademark vitality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981521305Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174883Author Sir Thomas BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Learned love poems from the early Augustan age.The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much...