Poetry

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...

All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering...

Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a different town, just like this', these poems take a...

Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern...

The Retrieved Attachments in Peter Robinson's new collection are to people and places, friends and loved ones, mentor poets and artists. Deploying the full range of his gifts, these poems are characteristically responsive both to fresh encounters and...

In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers-in spite of the almost total academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627164Author Stephen KeelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598845Author Carole BromleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic...

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALISTJackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.The poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084322Author Virginia CoxFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1220g

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. Jeffers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959012Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375504068Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

A cherished part of his oeuvre, the 'Ariel Poems' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. ('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series,...

The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. Rumi has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780143137139Author Rio CortezFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

"The 501 quatrains of Second Best Moments in Chinese History" make it seem at first like a repackaged version of Frank Kuppner's celebrated first collection "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (1984)". But it isn't: 'Please note that this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627218Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981808857Author Jules LaforgueFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404257Author Paul NegriFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)...

"There are so many words, insults, labels and boxes for women to be packaged and packed off in. Often, but not always, they're words coined by men."Why that is, is a bigger conversation that is starting to be had by women everywhere. We're slowly, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727461Author Damian Walford DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 138mm * 216mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930431Author A. K. BlakemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957326682Author Alba ArikhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 6mm

Now in a riveting new verse translation Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica), is the only surviving full account of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in third...

This poetry anthology includes both jolly and thought-provoking poems old and new to take the reader on a journey through the Christmas season, from the advent of winter to the dawn of the new year. Poems cover much-loved themes including the...

A revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for her "Reversible Destiny" architecture Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and...

Allen Ginsberg called Michaux a genius, and Jorge Luis Borges said that his work is without equal in the literature of our time. Henri Michaux (1899-1984) wrote Ideograms in China as an introduction to Leon Chang's La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142421Author Raymond AntrobusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New...

The drop of water on the tongue, writes Gillian Clarke, 'was the first word in the world', and the language of water is the element in which these poems live. Ocean currents create histories and cultures - the port cities of Cardiff and Mumbai; myths are...

Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060969165Author William StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Streams in the Desert is one of the most popular daily devotionals of all time. Now combined with Cowman's follow-up Springs in the Valley is an everyday morning and evening devotional. Readers will be encouraged by these short devotions that speak to...

Malika Booker is a writer, spoken word and multidisciplinary artist, whose work spans literature, education and cross-arts. She has appeared world-wide both independently and with the British Council. Founder of the international writer development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402218996Author Marc SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061138843Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...