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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781395493Author MR Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Sophie Hannah is one of Britain's best-loved poets, a disarmingly witty, sharp-eyed chronicler of everyday life and its peculiarities. She is also an internationally successful author of psychological crime fiction, and has written the first new Hercule...

Jenna Clake's Museum of Ice Cream is part simulation, part internal monologue, part attempt to reach out. An uncanny examination of objects, scenes, and flavours, these poems explore how food can connect and divide, can feel isolating and terrifying:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591082Author Anna SwirFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open' Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic'They are sailors...

Raman Mundair's second collection of poems sees her expanding her territory to create a new poetic geography. Her voice dances with her love for the language and life of the Shetland Islands through the anguish of war to the movement of people and the...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New...

A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880869Author Gordon KendalFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

In previous volumes David Cooke has explored his family origins in the West of Ireland and his upbringing in an Irish family in Berkshire. Grounded in experience, his poems have frequently explored questions of belief and identity in a wide-ranging...

Artaud the Momo is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an...

Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a different town, just like this', these poems take a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251454Author Jessica TraynorFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Walk around any stately home, museum or National Trust property and you are likely to see the words please do not touch more than a few times. The irony is in most cases the sign is telling you not to touch something that was stolen from another land,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031141Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528614Author Zagajewski AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and normal...

Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision-where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery, where first-person poetry discovers its full lyric...