Poetry

In Urban Tumbleweed Harryette Mullen, a critically acclaimed poet and winner of the GBP50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize, explores the space where both the city and natural world collide. Offering a stark and original commentary on the Los Angeles landscape,...

The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her...

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, composed of non-fiction, fiction and poetry - it is a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writers, that conveys in its multiplicity the true meaning of our...

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams...

Winner of the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021. A Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year 2021. Martina Evans's eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627379Author Jessica MookherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

'Madame Martin will throw back her shutters at eight...' With these words Beverley Bie Brahic opens The Hotel Eden, a book about seeing the world. She moves through - Paris, the French provinces, the American west coast - in the spirit of a flaneur,...

When knowledge is ours at the tap of a key, what is it we're accumulating, and is it at the expense of another, more intuitive, kind of knowing? The word 'fool' derives from the Latin follis, one of whose meanings is 'empty-headed person'. We can't...

Strange Fruit is the latest poetry collection by experimental Caribbean poet and theorist Kamau Brathwaite.Book InformationISBN 9781845233082Author Kamau BrathwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702780Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Literary Award (Open Book) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781556593833Author Natalie DiazFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher...

Bridgett Devoue takes you on a journey into the transformative world of love, lust, heartbreak, and abuse, and discovers the steps to finding lessons within pain.why does love become abusive? and when does pain become a lesson?Soft Thorns Vol. II is the...

Britain's much-revered and studied butterflies are, besides being very beautiful, a fascinating group of insects each with an intricate life story. The aim of this enchanting collection of poetry penned by respected insect ecologist - and as revealed...

The aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the 'Roman odes' in praise of Augustus, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264677Author Edward FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853943Author Helen CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

A Poetic Autobiography-Intimate, Sorrowful, and Funny Lynn Emanuel's sixth collection of poetry is not sequential or straightforward. It has no conventional chronology, no master narrative. Instead, it is a life story, with all the chaos and messiness...

Does history tell stories? Yes, if the poet listens carefully. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created an abidingly popular body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental...

Fatherhood is the debut novel from award-winning poet Caleb Klaces, combining prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction. Following the birth of their first child, a couple move out of the capital to the northern countryside, where they...

The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, heterosexual and white. This anthology of poems and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601081Author John KeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in...

Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Shortlisted for the 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward (Felix Dennis)...

This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.The latest anthology in Arc's 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' series features the work of six of Armenia's poets - three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya...

Shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mon/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean - the island is imagined here as a...

Given its imaginative risk and experimental daring, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Annie Freud's poetry is its effortless success: these wise, funny, sly, erotic and lightning-witted poems all find their marks with unerring accuracy. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722220Author Damian WalfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 103g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805705Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)...

"Must-Read Poetry: October 2019" by Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions "Best Books of 2019," Book Riot This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time,...

In Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands Sarah Wimbush journeys through myth and memory with poetry rooted in Yorkshire. From fireside tales of Romany Gypsies and Travellers, through pit villages and the haunt of The Miners' Strike, to the...

The Hopeful Hat is Carole Satyamurti's last collection. She was preparing these poems for publication at the time of her death, and left the manuscript in an advanced state of readiness. The sequencing of the poems, and the sections they are grouped in,...

In Motel of the Opposable Thumbs, Stuart Ross continues to ignore trends in Canadian poetry, and further follow the journey he began over four decades ago with his discoveries of the works of Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Nelson Ball, Ron Padgett,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204784Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 223mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962152467Author David WhyteFormat PaperbackImprint Many Rivers PressPublisher Many Rivers PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172193Author Erich AuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey write: 'Wordsworth speaks of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. This seems an apt description of these love poems. They are not important resonant pieces of writing: they simply happened when one of us felt...

The lyric and satirical muses have kept busy with Les Murray. Subhuman Redneck Poems, awarded the 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize, Dog Fox Field (1991), Translations from the Natural World (1993) and Conscious and Verbal (1999) are added to his expanded and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963130Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called the Garland...

Engaging above all with the matter of England in the here and now Simon Armitage focuses his attention on the conflicts within society today. The result is his wittiest, most alertly combative and impassioned collection to date.POET LAUREATETyrannosaurus...