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Megan has already caught attention with her infectious reeling wordplay, but, as is already evident in When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard, she is quickly moving on into more complex writing. Megan is not afraid of speaking her mind and grappling with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914407420Author Judith NichollsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872208190Author Paul O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint BookmarksPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 389g

Ann Sansom's poetry overturns the reader's expectations. Her poems often present human dramas in which people are seen as acting out their versions of themselves in their own fictions - what Stanley Cook called 'an authentic Northern mix of realism and...

Hotel Raphael, Rachael Boast's fourth collection, charts a journey through heat, drought and pain, and describes not only the reality of chronic illness, but living with it at a time of global crisis.Raphael is the patron saint of travellers and...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body...

Key features of this text: How to study the text Author and historical background General and detailed summaries Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style Glossaries Test questions and issues to consider Essay writing advice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602358164Author Geraldine MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714350Author NOVALISFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026890881Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719278Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 4mm

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."...