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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491780189Author Joe LunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Last BooksPublisher The Last Books

Tania Hershman's Still Life With Octopus is an exquisitely-attuned second collection, a philosophical and poetic interrogation of the boundaries of animal and human worlds and the intimate nature of time, being and joy. Exploring the slippage between the...

The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail, representing the culmination of an extraordinary life's work. The project is vast in scope, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the...

The poems in Clare Pollard's fifth collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of childbirth or thinking about surveillance at soft play, they...

Just before Christmas 1944, Albrecht Haushofer had been delivered to the Gestapo prison in the Moabit district of Berlin. In solitary confinement, fettered hand and foot, he awaited a show trial with a predetermined outcome. After a while he was allowed...

First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031153Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

By one of Greece's foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi's second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus...

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and...

Elaine Feinstein is a poet of lyrical directness. That clear, passionate voice which she brought to her celebrated translations of Marina Tsvetayeva's poetry is her own. She writes about love, loss, jealousy, the fear of abandonment. Her powerful rhythms...

The Collected Poems is a new and definitive edition of the poetry of one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets. Almost all of Jennings's published poetry (including work never before collected) and a large selection of her...

In a city celebrated for its poets and songwriters, On the Banks takes us on a lyrical tour of life, love, work and childhood in Cork. This captivating collection shares the best poems and songs about Cork city, from edmund Spenser to Gerry Murphy, and...

Nigel Jenkins's body of work is remarkable not just for the range of its forms and occasions, but for the variety of its literary, cultural and political commitments. He campaigned for Welsh devolution and international solidarity with the same sense of...

The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a...

Winner of the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a `rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills, excrements of authors,...

Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire draws together MacGillivray's extensive research into the life and work of Norwegian-Shetlandic poet Kristjan Norge, who vanished from Eilean a' Bhais in the Outer Hebrides in 1961. Comprising two previously unpublished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984943982Author Miklos RadnotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint New American PressPublisher New American PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Agnes Meadows, poet: "Leaving Traces " is Mary Pargeter's second collection, and one which fully embraces life's tragedies, sorrows and regrets, as well as some of the things that amuse or remind us of nature's bounty. It is a collection packed with...

Mae astudiaethau niferus wedi archwilio delweddaeth beirdd drwy ac mewn iaith, hynny yw, y modd y defnyddiant iaith i greu delweddau, ond nid felly'r ddelweddaeth am iaith ei hunan. Nod y llyfr hwn yw craffu ar sut y mae casgliad o feirdd o bob cwr o'r...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971255Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm...

This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O'Brien's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956814425Author Andy CroftFormat PaperbackImprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 323g

Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852445471Author St.Therese of Lisieux,Format PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling's death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: "The poems are funny, irreverent, moving and never sentimental. You can recognise yourself in...

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize A Sunday Times, New Statesman and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079916Author Jessica MookherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and...

The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by the generation's leading male literati as an equal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420963977Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural...

The world of Beauty/Beauty is 'built from the nose/out, like a painting', accumulating its various feelings, ideas, objects, disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing. Preoccupied with demise and loss, as well as reimagination and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532603327Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The poems in "New Wings" focus on many different kinds of beginnings. Drawn both from new poems as well as from two earlier collections, the book gives a fresh airing to the poetry of a talented writer whose work has been unavailable for many years. The...

This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special...

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking...

Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic...

Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a sparse education but was writing distinctive poetry before he was twenty,...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-1821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Keats's work...