Anthologies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841461Author Rachelle AtallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - these poems look at all the many manifestations of love.For All...

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 9781916459380Author Ambrose MusiyiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint CivicleicesterPublisher CivicleicesterWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. As Crews...

'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric...

A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive...

Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul-the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the...

In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have observed the tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of...

Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest...

This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life -...

In this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and...

Identity Parade presents new British and Irish poetry at a time of great vibrancy and variety. It is the first anthology to comprehensively represent the generation of poets who have emerged since the mid-1990s. Eclectic, diverse and wide-ranging in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156005746Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386g

Stories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus's "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee Bender's "The Color...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186939260Author Ali Husain MirFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Roli Books Pvt LtdPublisher Roli Books Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 50g

Short and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion,...

James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598821Author Lorraine MarinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary...

Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the...

A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love - gorgeously presented...

From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine...

The New Oxford Book of English Verse is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and critic, Dame Helen Gardner, the book makes available in one volume the full range and variety of English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725395Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

From Irish Hospice Foundation, who so compassionately provide end-of-life and bereavement care, this collection provides the gift of words at a time when words can be hard to find and is designed to speak to the fears and concerns that illness and...

Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714351Author Alice Leccese PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm)...

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary...

Hand in Hand with Love is a celebration of queer voices throughout the ages. Spanning from Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this luminous anthology champions and redefines the spectrum of queer poetry.Part of...

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and vernacular sources, and reflect the growing literary...

The Best Poetry Book in the World is a collection of popular poems from published poets from the last five years.Celebrating Burning Eye's 5th birthday, this anthology brings together all the anthems, the foot stompers, finger clickers, belly laughing...

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads...

A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories...

Love Poems celebrates love in its many forms with ninety-seven poems that span six centuries, from the work of Dante to the poetry of William Butler Yeats. It includes selections from many of the most celebrated poets in world literature, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627102Author Cerys MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925765Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and...

A beautiful gift anthology of classic poetry which captures the excitement and joy of a new arrival in the family. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make...

North Star: An almost unmoving point of light. Find it and you will know your way home. This collection of short stories and poems captures the unique voices of forty-five Northern Irish female writers. From mountains to lakes, from country to shore,...