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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592744Author Valzhyna MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm

In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve...

Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. This...

Underneath the Roses Where I Remembered Everything is a collection of exposed and vulnerable moments from the perspective of a nurse. It explores the importance of memories and things that slip away as life goes on. These poems contain both the blood and...

Reading the Flowers began during Linda France's 2010-11 Leverhulme Residency at Moorbank, Newcastle University's Botanic Garden (now closed). This led to a tour of Botanic Gardens in the UK and abroad. Here nature and culture meet in poems looking at...

In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908341303Author Berwick CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Paragon PublishingPublisher Paragon PublishingWeight(grams) 169gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Moving from the violent to the erotic, "Conquest" describes women questing to rediscover their own desire. Split into three sections, the collection begins in the 19th-century England of the Bronte sisters, travels...

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...

Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject-matter has been equally...

The Croatian poet Augustin (Tin) Ujevic (1891-1955) is one of the finest Southern Slav lyric poets and one of the great poets of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. While Tin Ujevic's poems are hardly known in English, they are loved in...

"Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time," writes Clive James in his epic poem, The River in the Sky. What emerges from this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956581907Author Keir ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint PuppywolfPublisher PuppywolfWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 133mm * 203mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473322486Author William Ernest HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint White PressPublisher White Press

In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of her third poetry collection. Through rivers, rain, wildlife...

Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113962Author Pascale PetitFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 100g

Some Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning and consolation in the wake of bereavement, the memorial role of music, and the effects of social...

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.About the AuthorJohn Alvis is Professor of English at the University of Dallas...

Written by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, A Season in Hell has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century.Book InformationISBN 9780195017601Author...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer and encouraging clearance and eviction, is the best known change, but it was by no means the only one. ...

While Jacob Polley's first collection, The Brink, announced a poet of great promise, few readers will be prepared for a work of the mature and slow power of Little Gods. Polley has been guided more and more by old-fashioned lyric inspiration of the sort...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious green warrior. In...

As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Enzensberger is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515431800Author William Butler YeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Alvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never...

Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251881Author Pat BoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 262g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992925529Author Sylvia CharlewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Springwood House PublishingPublisher Springwood House PublishingWeight(grams)...

A moving collection of poems by internationally acclaimed Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, brilliantly translated into English Kiki Dimoula's poetry-the most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literature-is a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and...

What are the contours of a life? For Andrew Greig: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures, illness and recovery, increased awareness of mortality and...

'A fine, if sometimes rude, collection of haikus inspired by modern life' Daily Telegraph'I'm in here!' yelled Mum.Hide and seek was spoilt again.We never found Dad.The word 'Haiku' invokes images of misty mountains, running streams and falling leaves. ...

In a frantic world, the momentary glimpse can spark a sudden flash of insight. This resonating glimpse-caught on the move-ripples through the mind, illuminating past and present, fast-forwarding in a split second to reveal future possibilities. But in an...