Anthologies

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the trailblazing African American author, Encounters with James Baldwin is a wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections, interviews and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of...

The three arts of poetry, calligraphy and painting are regarded in China as the Triple Excellence, and they are brought together here in a beautifully presented anthology of forty Chinese love poems ranging from the earliest known works in the famous...

'This book of poems is for all of us who go through illness, deal with doctors, hospitals, and experiences such as bereavement and ageing, and who struggle to find language to describe the suffering we have to go through. Medical language baffles and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/West Translation Award.Book InformationISBN 9781573225854Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin...

This selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951724009Author Candice L DaquinFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Indie Blue Publishing LLCPublisher Indie Blue Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068515910Author Leo StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Leo Stone PoetryPublisher Leo Stone Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627386Author Giles WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they...

The perfect gift for Mother's Day! For those at any and all stages of motherhood.'I read every single poem and wished that I'd had this book when I was pregnant, and feeding a baby, and watching her grow.' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover GamesA...

Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story through the remarkable prose, poetry and illustration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would...

Develop a love for poetry at key stage three with the trusted Touchstones series. This diverse selection of over 150 poems features thought-provoking contemporary voices and much-loved favourites. Touchstones: A Teaching Anthology of Poetry will help you...

For centuries poets in all the world's cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the earth and its people. Both an emotion and a conscious practice, gratitude is a cherishing of what is over what has been or could be. It celebrates the joy in...

The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987082384Author Joanna SkeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams)...

Nursing staff throughout the world have endured an unprecedented increase in distress, anxiety and depression. Physical and mental health have come under attack from anxiety, depression, elevated blood pressure and increased stress hormone production...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598777Author Geoff DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Surrealist Poetry presents new English translations of nearly 150 poems alongside their original French and Spanish versions.Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, Surrealism sought to examine the unconscious realm by means of the written or spoken word...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679433224Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

A diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English - from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London's bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather. Ode to England...

Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436613Author Kate SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900771900Author Maurice RiordanFormat PaperbackImprint Poetry SocietyPublisher Poetry Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627010Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by...

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? ...

Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them. This annotated edition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977173Author Cinzia Sartini BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941147863Author Robert: Young, Edward BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Valancourt BooksPublisher Valancourt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077883Author Neal BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598661Author Di SlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles as well as a complex commentary on the experience-personal, religious, cultural, political-of the issues and dilemmas of the twentieth century.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880013734Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration, passion and married bliss to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686957Author Barbara AbercrombieFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627201Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press