Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376370Author Michael EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707575Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of QSPELL Award 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780375701290Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO GIFTFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle...

My heart has made its mind upAnd I'm afraid it's you.The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets.In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of...

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker's latest collection is his most ambitious yet. Following on from the success of Unashamed (Burning Eye, 2022), Harry Baker combines the insight of a mathematician and the vulnerability of the poet to find wonder in...

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The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'The words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary' - Giovanna Fletcher'Beautifully heartfelt, inspiringly poignant and therapeutically validating' - Anna Mathur Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and...

Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world...

'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' Boston GlobeIn Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the...

From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of musicIn this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We...

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERI WISH I KNEW - new in paperback on 29th Feb 2024'Beautiful and uplifting' Davina McCall'So inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful.' Lisa Snowdon'Some people have the Bible by their bed...

*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*'I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhoodand found it a queendom, a wild queendom.'In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive...

Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretention and falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this...

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness so steadfast and radiant in...

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022A GUARDIAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER: HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE 2023; SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023;SOHO HOUSE BREAKTHROUGH WRITER AWARD 2022SHORTLISTED: THE WRITERS' GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998258836Author Phyllis Cole-DaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Grayson BooksPublisher Grayson BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156724005Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 116gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist"Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of...

'I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy having this beautiful collection of poetry to dip into when they need a boost' - Good Housekeeping 'This is supreme bedtime reading.' - The Lady 'Go to sleep with the lightest of hearts, with verses...

I go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable,what shall-what should I do? And the sea saysin its lovely voice:Excuse me, I have work to do.Whether studying the leaves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916222663Author Tim KeyFormat PaperbackImprint "Utter" & PressPublisher "Utter" & Press

"In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself . . . [Ted Hughes] explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530891Author James SchuylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on spirituality from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin...

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the...

Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman's struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry.In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645470564Author Matty WeingastFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

A Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around...

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems"the bees aren't going to go awaybut they are going to change with yousometimes they will be chaoticsometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869714871Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Little MoaPublisher Hachette Aotearoa New ZealandWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND FROM THE AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE'A little corner of calm within life's storm - wonderful.' Cat Deeley'Donna's much-needed words will no doubt empower and lift our young people today.' Lisa Faulkner 'Like a hug from a wise...

Following on from The Sunshine Kid (2014), Unashamed follows the journey of World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker from graduating with a maths degree being unsure if this poetry thing was even possible, to becoming one of the nation's favourite poets...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA FLETCHERThis book is written out of...

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most ambitious collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favourite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically,...

Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language.In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously...

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."-Library Journal (Best Poetry...