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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322686Author Nicolas JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Poems on historical battles where horses played an important part present us with a commentary on the political agenda of...

This anthology features the work of six of Estonia's most celebrated poets. They write from their oral tradition and folklore, explore new forms of poetry through music, marginalia and note-making.Book InformationISBN 9781906570972Author Doris...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870841696Author Bernard KopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800689220Author Andrew HornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing NetworkWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115751Author Grahame DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844018512Author Marian DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

"Fruitcake" brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). "Bougainvillae" explores love and having a mother. "Nylon" is about happiness, and not having or being a mother. Then "Bunker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992958145Author Steve ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Frances Leviston's first collection, Public Dream, was one of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years, and praised for combining 'technical mastery with a lucidity that verges on the hypnotic' (Independent).Leviston's keenly-anticipated second book...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880081Author Emma BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Poetry has always been bound up with ideas of endurance, redemption, consolation, and survival, and it is one of the best antidotes to depression. We Have Come Through brings together 100 poems celebrating individual courage in resisting the ravages of...

So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the business of everyday life. Lyrical and experimental by...

In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection...

Banned and beloved in equal measure, The Midnight Court is a canonical eighteenth-century text widely considered to be one of the greatest comic Irish poems. Despite its simple story line, Merriman's poem addresses a wide range of themes from its...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719711Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the...

In these new poems, each of them written in couplets and contained within the space of sixteen lines, Mimi Khalvati takes the weather, the seasons and the passage of night and day as the ground on which she draws her emblems of human life and love. An...

Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the...

Notes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed and illuminating voyage of dislocation and longing. By turns evocative, unsettling, and full of 'small acts of magic', Mookherjee simultaneously finds the...

In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship,...

Morrissey is the winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 1990 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. This book of poems is organized around the theme of the journey: from communism to spiritual affirmation; from life in Ireland to life abroad,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515432531Author Lord George Gordon ByronFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams)...

The Dark Film, Paul Farley's first collection since the highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames, expands the poet's research into 'the art of seeing', and all that humans project of themselves into the world. Farley's great poetic gift is his ability to switch...

Over the last 15 years Keston Sutherland has gained the reputation of being at the forefront of the experimental movement in contemporary British poetry. This book collects all of his work into a single volume, including his recent "The Odes to TL61P."...

Skies is Alison Brackenbury's ninth Carcanet collection. In these poems, Brackenbury sustains delicate proximities between war and love, joy and sadness, summer and winter. Starting out as the first trees 'chatter into leaf', the poems cross through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984679881Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Sleeping Cat BooksPublisher Sleeping Cat BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. In Squid Squad: A Novel we join Natalie Chatterley, Angus Mingus, Nerys Harris and friends as they make recordings of the doorbell, uncrumple their cash and fling...

Zoe Brigley's third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities...

Paul Farley's debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, was one of the most celebrated debuts of the nineties. The poems in The Ice Age are as engaged and engaging as ever, but also display a new philosophical depth: Farley's gift is...

Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an...

Why Brownlee Left, a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, confirmed Paul Muldoon's reputation as the most inventive voice of his generation when it was first published in 1980. The key figure in the poet's third...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956896988Author Pam Zinnemann-HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Ward Wood PublishingPublisher Ward Wood Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905281305Author Philip RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Ullans PressPublisher Ullans PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 4mm

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nichols's lucid verse translation. Expressing...

The malarkey is over in the back of the car - As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it and...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian governments. This new translation...

'The Observer' described Anne Ridler as 'one of the best poets of her generation.' Her first book, 'Poems', was published in 1939, and her work developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the day - MacNeice and Auden, but also Durrell and Watkins...