Anthologies

This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of...

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of...

A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British...

In this powerful book, Roger Housden harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the reader's inner-most feelings. For everyone who knows there is more to life than they are currently experiencing, it aims to bring an awakening...Through the voices...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614297208Author John BrehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915760920Author Aaron KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627133Author Romalyn AnteFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679429067Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets...

Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing from Spenser, Shakespeare, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627348Author Lorraine MarinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985467937Author Ivan M GrangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Poetry ChaikhanaPublisher Poetry ChaikhanaWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience through the...

Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically...

Poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith collect and foreground an impressive range of sonnets, including formal and formally subversive sonnets by established and emerging poets, highlighting connections across literary moments and movements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956242891Author Richard HapperFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Jonescat Publishing LtdPublisher Jonescat Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

'...his 1911 translations of the poetry into English are still minor masterpieces..' - Bernard O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement '..literal translations first published in 1913 when they opened many eyes to the variety and richness of Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467132Author Kathrine MortimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 231g

Like A New Sun features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages. Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Victor Teran and translator David Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six...

A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence...

'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William WordsworthNo generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispensable volume, Sir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825429248Author Josephus FlaviusFormat HardbackPage Count 1144Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 1383g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156007627Author Frances MayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924201Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness. Love enables us to make meaning of our lives in the...

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 9781913627416Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467187Author Alice PenfoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh...

Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide...

This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features...

Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the 'earthly Muses' whose poetic skills rivalled...

Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. Included here are poems celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', Monet's 'Waterlilies' and Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'; well-known...

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten propectors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077890Author James BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 231g

From grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated.Whether it was written 300 years ago or in our present day, poetry provides a comforting light in the dark. Words may not always...

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical...

The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, and the haiku poet most familiar to English readers; Yosa Buson...