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At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time;...

In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential...

Keith Hutson's debut collection, Baldwin's Catholic Geese, looks at the delight and heartbreak of being human through the lens of beloved music hall and variety stars like Hylda Baker and Frankie Howerd, as well as less celebrated, now long-forgotten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103211Author Professor Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? First published in 1896, A.E. Housman’s best-loved collection of poetry is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524371Author Professor James FentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In this volume of typographical (or "concrete") poems, Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they're made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine the professed message of the pieces. When Eclipse was...

Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time,...

This new volume gathers together the finest of Ruth Pitter's poems, which in Kathleen Raine's judgement 'will survive as long as the English language, with whose expressiveness in image and idea she has kept faith, remains'. In the introduction Elizabeth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849024594Author John O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 332gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary American English while maintaining Dante's original triple...

Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Chronologically ordered, the poems in this collection act as a timeline...

The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists. In a...

Tua Forsstroem is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915138838Author D.Z. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Pickwick Publications,U.S.Publisher Pickwick Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 283g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780151686568Author T. S. EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco Press

Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio...

Featuring over 90 of Rudolf Steiner's best-loved verses and meditations, this volume collects a range of material on various themes, such as working with spiritual beings, connecting with loved ones who have passed over, developing selfhood, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218086Author Meret OppenheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126386Author Jessica HischeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391g

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The original text is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902831220Author William SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Perth & Kinross LibrariesPublisher Perth & Kinross Libraries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213447Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First...

Poems dealing with the soiled aspect of the human condition and the sumptuous appeal of the tactile are presented in Spanish and English.Book InformationISBN 9780802130358Author Pablo NerudaFormat HardbackPage Count 431Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic...

Little Gods established Jacob Polley as one of the leading talents of the younger generation; his third collection sees him extend that gift in often wholly unexpected directions. As before, Polley's work is often unashamedly lyric, and displays a...

In Lautreamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautreamont and Sade, these unique figures in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493229785Author Helle GadeFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Butterdragons PublishingPublisher Butterdragons PublishingWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Testament is an imaginative improvisation on the Bible that engages with the intensities, the ups and downs, of existence in our complex and fragmented world.Psalter, the first part, comprises 150 psalm-like poems that sound the depths and heights of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533052Author Professor Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint 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 9781915629135Author Theo DorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390310Author Philippe JaccottetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

In Poppy, Joseph Minden explores how the totems of remembering are always, also, sites of suppression. The poems in this debut collection take in a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme, an ill-fated visit to Penang, rumours of the...

Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he hits in "Horse Music" are lyrical and touching as well as disturbing and disquieting. Confronting him in these imaginative riffs are not just the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420957587Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467001540Author Raakesh KatwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849023702Author W. B. YeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic.ReviewsAn essential work in understanding both the literary approach of C.S. Lewis and the theological assumptions of Paradise Lost. Unparalleled in its...

'Look -- here's a poet of ferocious invention, a breathtaking wit that ushers us to epiphanies of grief and laughter, an encyclopaedic knowledge of hip ephemera that's never merely knowing, and a playful ear -- which is, I note, an anagram of Paul Farley...