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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956547Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102313Author Lorenzo De' MediciFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915760074Author Tamiko DooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and...

The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and...

A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year. Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870612876Author Frances CornfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon PressWeight(grams) 149g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528772310Author William WordsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251393Author Doireann Ni GhriofaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems...

For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the...

From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861717160Author NovalisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399934350Author Amirah WaltersFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Amirah WaltersPublisher Amirah WaltersWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377834Author Amelia RosselliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

At the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and parish - is defined through the individual...

A previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524692Author Enzo SicilianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

The work of 'L.E.L.' began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of...

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York...

"Michael Field" was the literary pseudonym of two women, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth...

Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded as one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English. While Rossetti has firmly secured her place in the canon, her religious poetry was for a long time either overlooked or considered evidence of a...

Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarme is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to Ashbery. He had a quiet life by many standards, but in one respect...

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486453491Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well established Guide. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references: literary,...

The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the...

Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot, the lore of Full Moons, weather myths and travellers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697268Author Fernando PessoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532710Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Sigerson Clifford has set his poems against the mountain backdrop that edges Dingle Bay from the Laune to the Inney. He has a special feeling for the beauty of the valleys and mountains of Kerry. With a rare sense of intimacy he takes the reader through...

In Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands Sarah Wimbush journeys through myth and memory with poetry rooted in Yorkshire. From fireside tales of Romany Gypsies and Travellers, through pit villages and the haunt of The Miners' Strike, to the...

'Ruminative and enigmatic . . . powerful' Simon Armitage'Tenderly inquisitive . . . a powerful poetry of witness . . . full of discovery' Alycia Pirmohamed'Majella Kelly offers so much: ecstatic lyricism . . . emotional excavation and virtuosic skill' ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246367Author Robert RendallFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers LimitedDimensions(mm)...

When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature - alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. "Towards Reading Freud" weighs the...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. In Farm by the Shore, Thomas A Clark continues his investigations into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His brief notations and fragments embody the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630888Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

The Genesis of this Revolutionary has involved an up-bringing of scientific exactness, complemented by experimental cross-dressing, existential fist-fights and being possessed by the spirit of a relentlessly swearing 17th Century Ranter. Nourished by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420405599Author Gabriela MistralFormat HardbackPage Count 758Imprint AlfaguaraPublisher AlfaguaraWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm * 53mm