Poetry

Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? More than a hundred are represented in this anthology, yet only few have hitherto featured in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889514Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398472549Author Courtney MulhollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185872Author Sabrina BenaimFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692510797Author Wandering PoetFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Wandering PoetPublisher Wandering PoetWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a...

Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary...

If you believe that a dog is man's - and woman's - best friend, this is the anthology for you: six hundred years of reflections on the virtues (and some of the vices) of canine kind. Within these pages you will find a large selection of animals and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764083Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 867gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Like its predecessor, Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse, this is an anthology of poetry written for children. It begins in the eighteenth century and ends in 1995, with the emphasis on modern work, and the explosion of talent that has...

The arrangement of these Selected Poems demonstrates the consistency of Christopher Logue's vision as it matured through a varied career. He published his first books in the early 1950s, in Paris, where he was associated with Alexander Trocchi, Samuel...

While having fun with Washing Lines: A collection of poems, Barbara and Janie discovered they have many other things in common, including an interest in all things precious, semi-precious and sparkly. This is a book of poems inspired by that sparkle and...

This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O'Brien's...

From its tentative first word ('perhaps') to the final phrase, realising 'here is no journey / only attending to stones- / like a story told yet again / by an old friend', the reader is immersed in a woodland that is alive with quiet yet profound...

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and...

"These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming." - Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, U.S. Poet Laureate Pulitzer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917319Author Nasim Rebecca AslFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the...

"One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence."--Jack Kerouac "Robert Lax's poems [prove] yet again that the gift to be simple is the gift to be free, that less is more, and that least may sometimes be most...

An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal... Written between October 2018 and July 2019, these poems are concerned with the nature of change, identity, worth, and other abstract...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437101Author Henry Adams BellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.'What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the...

Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944676547Author Machiko KobayashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint AHA BooksPublisher AHA BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm

Shivanee Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the...

Eknath Easwaran taught spiritual living for nearly 40 years and drew deep, ongoing inspiration from the sacred literature of all traditions -- the great river of wisdom that is always flowing throughout the world. The 149 short extracts in this anthology...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in 1923 in Jamaica, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother, he emigrated to America at the age of 17. Voices...

Nick Laird's powerful new collection reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems and the banalities and distortions of modern life, the poet confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness,...

The hero's journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486456768Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. She is co-author with Dorianne Laux of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2015 and Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781938912443Author Hieu Minh NguyenFormat PaperbackPage...

Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks...

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers.Because it defines human existence, love is one of art's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845275945Author Hedd WynFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Let Me Tell You This is a vital exploration of racism, gender-based violence, and the sustaining, restorative bonds between women, told with searing precision and intelligent lyricism. Nadine takes you on a journey exploring heritage, connection, and...

Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life. Vibrant, at times...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic...

In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life...

In this her sixth collection of poetry where the real, virtual and literary mix, Heng Siok Tian travels through landscapes and explores relationships of family, friendships, the familiar and the foreign. With her signature simplicity and honesty, she...