Poetry

Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeLonglisted for the 2019 Portico PrizePBS Autumn RecommendationMancunia is both a real and an unreal city. In part, it is rooted in Manchester, but it is an imagined city too, a fallen utopia viewed from formal...

A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artistAn all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon, New Names for Lost Things combines Noor Unnahar's powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640600850Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 164g

'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign),...

This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem) deals with the women's experience of emigration, displacement and changed identity.Book InformationISBN 9781784108984Author Sasha DugdaleFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876792Author Anna BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

From Santa to snowmen, little children will love the magical illustrations in this festive early years colouring book. Bold, simple outlines and large areas to colour in make this book ideal for developing pencil control skills.A simple Christmas...

Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth. Originally published in 1979. The...

During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his philosophical views and radical political ideas. These, ...

This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life...

Irish Women Poets Rediscovered is a ground-breaking collection of original essays which brings to new recognition the lives and work of seventeen remarkable Irish women poets spanning the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Its unique format combines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985255282Author Dr David BowlesFormat PaperbackImprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the...

Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson's collection is a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It moves between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945023200Author Dante MicheauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Indolent BooksPublisher Indolent BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760990220Author Emily SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629135Author Theo DorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848) and Anne (1820-1855) were famous nineteenth century poets and novelists, publishing their original work under the pseudonyms, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte's novel, 'Jane Eyre' was the first successful...

Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase...

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733216371Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Middle Creek Publishing & AudioPublisher Middle Creek Publishing & AudioWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176372630Author T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations.Book InformationISBN 9780316184151Author...

Another Crossing tells the stories of an individual life, of a family, of the communities of Chapeltown and Harehills, and of crucial moments in the making of Leeds as a place where cultures meet. In poetry that sings from the page, Another Crossing...

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally...

Six Macedonian Poets is the seventh volume in a series of bilingual anthologies which brings the work of contemporary poets from Europe and beyond to a wider readership, a series which aims to keep a finger on the pulse of international contemporary...

From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry and quote for a lifetime.Small Cures is at once a compelling...

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."-Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan...

In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act of verbal dexterity and inventive syntax in pursuit of a new kind of communication. Set against landscapes fallen just short of paradise, but which retain the possibility of redemption,...

Patterflash embraces the performative, self-ironising aesthetic of campness but, as a mask, it is a complex and very malleable one, capable of showing features of tenderness, bravery, righteous anger and sometimes sadness and alarm - as well as the...

In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way. The basis for Glinka's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614706Author Paula MeehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self-examining, sometimes funny and often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944350485Author John Greenleaf WhittierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Friends United Press,U.S.Publisher Friends United Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the...

The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth centuries, are unusual because most vernacular poems in this period are anonymous. Other than the name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not...

Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. It deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. But it also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing...

A poet and student of the occult, Worth based her work on the premise that words themselves are a means to control exterior phenomena and interior changes. This is not the magic of complex ceremonies, this is magic from the heart, the magic incarnated in...