Poetry

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE.* 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity.Gikuyu and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994623720Author Becca LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Becca LeePublisher Becca LeeWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year. Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is...

How often is it that a poet with the name recognition factor and critical standing of Salena Godden publishes their first collection 20 years into their career? Perhaps it is simply that no publisher has had the courage to commit themselves to the task...

At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558167Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this...

These are hymns and elegies; protest songs and battle cries as Jones speaks to and for the disaffected: 'We are the tapestry / The crackling cracks of modernity / Dislocated desperations stitched together / By the disparate verses of our skin / I write...

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped...

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples...

Underneath the Roses Where I Remembered Everything is a collection of exposed and vulnerable moments from the perspective of a nurse. It explores the importance of memories and things that slip away as life goes on. These poems contain both the blood and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437609300Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631038Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772239Author Ilhan ComakFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As...

Act Normal includes 31 contemporary monologues from Too Much Punch For Judy, Hard To Swallow, Missing Dan Nolan, I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die, Game Over ... and many more of Mark's plays and musicals. Written with young performers in mind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398497221Author William SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534547Author John BerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

This work provides a wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition, the need for awareness of "cosmic consciousness", the problem of good and evil, and methods of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573228763Author Stephen BatchelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory...

A lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879764Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Pow!Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804395592Author Raine ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making,...

The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.About the AuthorJohn H...

Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to show us...

* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine * Full-cloth, flexible covers * Sewn bindings *...

A reissue of Paulin's "corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion" from the 1980s.About the AuthorTom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has...

Bringing together the collected works of bestselling poet Charly Cox for the very first time with new and exclusive material. Nobody asked for this Whatever this is Nobody asked for this ...

From the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the WaterOther People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at...

'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends...

The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063087330Author Kate BaerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint HarperPublisher Harper

Winner of the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 2023. Shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry 2023 by the American Literary Translators Association. The Poetry Book Society Spring 2022 Translation Choice. Chinese poetry is unique...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2020 Music for the Dead and Resurrected captures the complexity of living in the shadows of imperial force, of the vulnerability of bodies, of seeing with more than the...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn'tIt is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune...

Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable...