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In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act of verbal dexterity and inventive syntax in pursuit of a new kind of communication. Set against landscapes fallen just short of paradise, but which retain the possibility of redemption,...

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373362Author Vasko PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) is generally considered to be - along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century. His life was, to say the least, troubled. From an early age, he was dogged by the tuberculosis...

Written in the beautiful Scots of the Shetland Islands - a blend of Old Scots and Norn - the poems in this title evoke a simple and pure way of life. These are poems with a sense of place, sympathy, commitment to language and the urge to celebrate life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061136023Author Frieda HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's...

Thomas Kinsella is among the most distinguished modern poets. His work over fifty years has challenged and enriched the poetic landscape. Rooted in locality, Kinsella's poetry employs myth and modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricism to...

Heir to Mallarme and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valery was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the...

The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorRichard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.ReviewsRichard Sieburth, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614973Author Jessica TraynorFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 114g

I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid brings together six contrasting but complementary poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson) relating to family, fear, foreboding and felicity. Elective Mute is about autism and...

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Denise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. They are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern...

When she died, in 2009, Anthony Thwaite described U.A. Fanthorpe as a 'smiling subversive with a voice like bird-song'. An encouraging example to all late developers, this particular bird's voice took its time: she didn't become a poet until she was 45...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781398821Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454776Author Martin RowsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 155g

The poems in Miriam Gamble's third collection journey surreally through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind, finding little, as they go, that 'can be claimed self-evident'. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What...

Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535605Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 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 9781781393192Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 1410gDimensions(mm)...

Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizePBS Autumn RecommendationThe poems in James Sheard's remarkable third book are about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they...

With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers.The Drowned Book is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735794440Author Lorna SmithersFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint RitonaPublisher RitonaWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895--1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with many of the most powerful people. Jorge Luis Borges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528577Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782322144181Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bod - Books on DemandPublisher Bod - Books on DemandWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079732Author J H PrynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

PETROL HONEY features work from the Edinburgh fringe shows (the Yellow Show and the Sky Show) that have earned him cult status and a growing army of fans. PETROL HONEY explores the deeper meaning of the colour yellow, whether Lurpack is available in...

One of the most versatile and rebellious poets in Poland, Swietlicki takes us into streets, cafes, rooms, and conversations where - with his signature dark glasses - he ponders metaphysical questions in the minutiae of daily life. These are poems about...

From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910858080Author R. G. BinnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint JetstonePublisher JetstoneWeight(grams) 146gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 9mm

Ian Duhig has long inspired a fervent and devoted following. With The Lammas Hireling - the title poem having already won both the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Poem - Duhig has produced his most accessible and exciting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592546Author Vincente AleixandreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595765Author Hilaire BellocFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

The Multiverse, Andrew Wynn Owen's first book of poems, sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme. The poems find their way into memory as sense...

Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well known proponents of the prose poetry form such as George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964518148Author Andrew CalhounFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Artemis BooksPublisher Artemis BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. The anthology aims to explore their confluence and is conceived in response to a twofold observation: the increased presence of written, spoken and performed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374645Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm...