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Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with...

Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive energies in which the poet...

Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature. In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993030604Author William AyotFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Sleeping Mountain PressPublisher Sleeping Mountain Press

The leisure in which Brian Cox now writes his poems is hard-earned. Poetry, always his chief passion as reader and teacher, was forced to the edges of his life during the years in which he followed his other vocation in the world of education. When,...

A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud's last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud's largely unknown final work of 1947-48, revealing...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than...

Frances Horovitz's poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192274Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 121g

Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the...

"Extreme of Things" is a large collection combining new poems with a thematic selection from recent books. It explores the duality of existence, a track which runs through all Jenny Joseph's work, whether for children or adults, in poetry or prose. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787370067Author Michael DraytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629173Author Milena WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913268176Author S NiroshiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Bad Betty PressPublisher Bad Betty PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of dream-life, mystery and music, sexual obsession and the...

Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880107150Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided...

R.M. Liuzza's Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney's; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to...

In Earth House, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. Beginning in the slate waters of the north, the book...

The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence is the account of a young woman's stay in the psychiatric ward of a large hospital. The only time she feels safe is when swimming; the only place, the sea, preferably underwater. Selima Hill's 17th book of poetry -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478095Format PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 190mm * 134mm * 32mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982185452Author Jim DossFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Loch Raven Press, LLCPublisher Loch Raven Press, LLCWeight(grams) 767g

Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his imagination and the virtuosity of his literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114716Author Pascale PetitFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 116g

'Poetry was always a natural thing to me, part of letter-writing and simply another way of responding to the world'. Thus the author prefaces this substantial new collection of poems, in strict form and in free verse, including a number published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179796Author J. H. PrynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 126gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838496708Author Patricia HannFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint BookpublishingworldPublisher BookpublishingworldWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe's Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish emigre card magician Chan Canasta. It is also a...

Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin. His poems are...

At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, his last work, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement. Written in long lines of variable length, with much off-rhyme...

Winner of the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020. The Guardian's Poetry Book of the Month August 2019. So Many Rooms, the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2001.Book InformationISBN 9781854113054Author Pascale PetitFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales...

The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.About the AuthorJohn H...

Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination and justifies her reputation as one...

Ideal for children aged 6 - 12, this colour illustrated book explains the early life of Robert Burns and how he grew up to be Scotland's best known poet and lyricist. Suitable for schools and homework projects, this book explains his early life in...

A collection of poems written by Ian Singleton over the last 30 years. From the first poem he wrote to his late wife, to the last he wrote just after her tragic death, and a selection of everything in between. Section one is about his life, section two...

This is the first twentieth-century study of the women troubadours who flourished in Southern France between 1150 and 1250-the great period of troubadour poetry. The book is comprised of a full-length essay on women in the Middle Ages, twenty-three poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027331864Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 34mm

Living by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane - an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close...