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This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. It is a world where wry...

T. S. Eliot spoke of his 'genius'; in 1935 W. B. Yeats wrote to him, 'I like you better than I like anybody else in the new generation.' This selection draws on six decades of writing, twenty volumes of verse, and illustrates the remarkable diversity of...

"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them--"Ode to a...

Scotland has built great literature out of its richly textured language. Like the stones bound together in a wall, the poets linkied here by location and shared language embody the beauty of their country and the passion 'pulsin through its heirt'. These...

In these poems, deadpan comedy and a relish for the outrageous and the bizarre often carry an emotional charge. Subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life.About the AuthorHugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He...

Burning the Heartwood is a first collection of lyric and pastoral poems. Janet Sutherland was born in Salisbury in 1957. After a childhood on a small dairy farm followed by studies at Cardiff and Essex Universities, she moved to Hackney, East London, and...

This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the Surrealist Poems and Objects exhibition at the London Gallery at midnight on 24 November 1937. Within a few years the...

What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left.At university the mercurial Johnny...

Shadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399980784Author Harry WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HobservatoryPublisher HobservatoryWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, over a decade later and after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to...

Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which mismatched characters are bounced between love, death and disappointment. Hers is a seemingly small world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156198202Author C P CavafyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco Press

How often is it that a poet with the name recognition factor and critical standing of Salena Godden publishes their first collection 20 years into their career? Perhaps it is simply that no publisher has had the courage to commit themselves to the task...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949966794Author Maria ZajkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902382418Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 105g

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016 "Cortazar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortazar is a people's...

In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different...

The work of an original, haunting and experimental woman modernist poet is made available again, for the first in 50 years. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in wartime...

Though John Glenday has long been admired for his lyrically delicate and emotionally powerful poetry, he has remained something of a well-kept secret. His third collection, Grain, makes his singular talent available to a wider audience. Sometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106040Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Pigott Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Roehampton Poetry Prize. Featured in the TLS & Irish Times Books of the Year 2018. Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787375659Author Edmund SpenserFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Poetry was Louis de Bernieres' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction.De Bernieres was...

The fifth collection from poet Blake Auden, To Drown as a Cure for Thirst, is a delicate exploration of grief and how it affects-and is affected by-time and memory. Written in the wake of a global pandemic, the book touches on themes including loss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897648803Author Fred JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Salmon Publishing LtdPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721513Author Carrie EtterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993149030Author Amir DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 102g

The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his works and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565891999Author YoganandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Crystal Clarity PublishersPublisher Crystal Clarity PublishersWeight(grams)...

Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life...

Delving into new worlds populated by robots, witches, talking pandas, and giant stags, this collection offers funny, haunting, and heartbreaking poems. Highlighting the poet's dazzling lyrical instincts balanced by her stinging wit, it moves between high...

Winner of the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021. A Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year 2021. Martina Evans's eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation...

The Interpretation of Owls is a representative selection of one of the UK's most prolific and respected poets. Edited by Kevin Gardner in consultation with John Greening himself, this first American collection showcases highlights of a remarkable...

Shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mon/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean - the island is imagined here as a...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where had he come from? And where was he going? He sought the answers in order to free and empower not only himself, but the whole human race...

The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland, The Celtic Twilight captures a wide range of stories,...

James Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also an accomplished poet. Chamber Music, his debut collection, fused the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of ironic exuberance. Pomes Penyeach, a collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270920Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...