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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 *...

From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of...

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...

The twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty...

This collection of Dante Alighieri's lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his Vita nuova and Divine Comedy developed. Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love poetry, Dante would later come to master all the genres of...

The second in the ground-breaking mouthmark series, 13 Fairy Negro Tales is a vibrant pamphlet of contemporary poetry. In language scooped directly from a paintbrush, Inua Ellams announced his arrival on the poetry scene, with what has become a runaway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877070Author Roderick WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

One of Scotland's most celebrated poets, Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture, its people and its landscape. The Scottish Ambassador fuses individual and communal voices in poems that...

Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanityitself and, above...

Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society and...

The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees, ten dream pattern poems and thirty-five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen of Scots. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth,...

Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam...

John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536817Author Christopher LogueFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape, and a fresh take on nature poetry. In assured style, Watts positions herself where...

Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to produce poems that range from the blackly comic to the surreal, from the nonsensical to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434403544Author Brent D. SingletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781720745Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 107g

Where do we find the words to greet a new arrival? In this celebratory book, poet Kate Clanchy has made an inspired choice of poems that speak powerfully of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and mystery that new life brings, from conception through to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorpson /f WilliamBook InformationISBN 9780313210211Format HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 454g

Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned both with our...

Addressing the loss of the poet's mother - as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death, and the natural world - Scenes from Life on Earth explores how we grieve and remember those we love. Simmonds continues to write through the prism of her faith,...

In Peter Bennet's poetry nothing is what it seems to be. Modern spaces are haunted by the past and the unreal. We cannot tell the encroacher from the encroached. Discontinuities in time and space and playful short-circuitings produce exhilarating shivers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881217Author Gordon KendalFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language. He takes inspiration from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473334694Author Rudyard KiplingFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 12mm

Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal - this poet's third country' (Maura...

Malika Booker is a writer, spoken word and multidisciplinary artist, whose work spans literature, education and cross-arts. She has appeared world-wide both independently and with the British Council. Founder of the international writer development...

To Abandon Wizardry, Matthew Caley's seventh collection, explores a world where it's harder and harder to tell what's real and what's not. Where our political and cultural reality seems so unbelievable, we search for a plot and find one that comes from...

This changes things was Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women - particularly the socially or economically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322754Author Jenny RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Angry Yellow Woman is Vera Chok’s debut collection. Is Vera a woman, though? And how yellow are they? The anger is real. These playful, searching, and violently sexy pieces expose Vera's immigrant-hobo journey through the landscapes, beds, and bodies of...

Throw in the Vowels is a retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed. The 2010 reissue of this title included a...