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One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but when his conversion failed to yield the hoped-for job...

These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892553617Author Thomas HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm...

Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of...

When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen...

Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in Jamie McKendrick's astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and range from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain to the Belgian Congo and to the Roman, the Austro-Hungarian and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420973433Author Edward LearFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies intertwined with passages about major life changes involving country, identity and belonging. It is about perpetually standing at the edge of change, anticipating it,...

Though still in his mid-twenties Jacob Polley is already in possession of a remarkably mature talent. Formally graceful, but unself-conscious, his poems come at the reader from all angles, wholly alive to the unique possibilities of their subjects - the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913642020Author Jack ParlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt and forgotten ritual. For this reason, Jahan Ramazani argues, the elegy, one of the most...

The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in residence at the Bridgewater Hall,...

This collection of poems by doctor and acclaimed poet, Glenn Colquhoun, is based on his experiences in medical practice, where doctors are often described - or accused of - 'playing God' but where outward confidence hides a constant battle with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374604Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535612Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913268244Author Eve Esfandiari-DenneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Bad Betty PressPublisher Bad Betty PressWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Dramatic new retellings of Celtic poetry's great lyrics and legendsAbout the AuthorMartin Shaw is a mythologist, a storyteller, an author, and a designer of mythic life and oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916070653Author E RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint adilsaperturePublisher adilsapertureWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality - nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting - has appealed to a far wider audience than that of literary specialists, while also winning the respect of...

The poems in Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous...

From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday...

To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In...

When Roy Fisher told Gael Turnbull in 1960 that he had 'started writing like mad' and produced 'a sententious prose book, about the length of a short novel, called the Citizen' he was registering a sea change in his work, finding a mode to express his...

This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth's poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902382999Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764804946Author Joseph GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liguori Publications,U.S.Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739588045Author Barbara GianquittoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Barbara Gianquitto PoetryPublisher Barbara Gianquitto PoetryWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780957172234Author Steve ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint...

'I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually constructed, but as a poem might be. In turnings and returnings. In parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully...

Anne Stevenson (1933-2020) was a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428691Author Rene CharFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Seagull BooksPublisher Seagull BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957182929Author Bill LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Greenheart PressPublisher Greenheart PressWeight(grams) 190g

Jane Burn's new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from the Snow Queen to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871526486Author Frank ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Education Now Publishing Co-operative LtdPublisher Education Now Publishing...

These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, Riordan's...

Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan",...

The Whole & Rain-domed Universe is Colette Bryce's much-anticipated follow-up to Self-Portrait in the Dark. The book presents the reader with an extraordinarily clear-eyed, vivid and sometimes disturbing account of growing up in Derry during the...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents...

Short poems can have marvellous clarity, humour, and depth. They can range from subjects as diverse as a child's first wods, a woman's feet, or the destiny of man. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie have chosen those short poems (of less than fourteen...