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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...

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original...

Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first collection, All the Prayers in the House, which holds at its...

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a central figure in post-war French culture, with a lifelong fascination with the problems of translation. Language, for him, was a visceral, intensely material element in our existence, and yet the abstract quality of words...

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People we love die. And at the heart of the grief there's a sense of wonder: we can't believe it, where have they gone, what are they now, what does that make us? We end up wondering at life too. Death takes us to the edge of living; grief leads us to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573120206Author Evelyn HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.About the AuthorMoya Cannon is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954736736Author Jeremy NaydlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint The Godstow PressPublisher The Godstow PressDimensions(mm) 175mm * 120mm * 5mm

The first "Collected Poems" of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal poems she ever wrote. Claire Harman, the original editor...

Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, defying convention, and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390952Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn s writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn s epic poem "Gunslinger, "this collection which is both wonderfully...

Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting...

Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society.Foreword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli."With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408835Author A L AlgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213997Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 104mm *...

Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union are a peculiarity in the Jewish world. After decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a strong sense of Jewish identity--but one that was almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114389Author Paul HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 92g

The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and his faithful guide, Virgil, as they traverse the...

"All Just', David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcements...

Coleridge's status as a philosopher has often been questioned. `I am a poor poet in England,' he admitted, `but in America, I am a great philosopher.' J. S. Mill's assertion that `the time is yet far distant when, in the estimation of Coleridge, and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215317Author Tijan M. SallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 282g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261385Author Elisabeth RynellFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro here presents fresh English versions of poems by three of Western literature's most gifted and prolific poets-the French Renaissance writers Clement Marot, Joachim Du Bellay, and Pierre de Ronsard. Writing in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age...

This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956417596Author Paul SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 223g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431918Author Jessie L. WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was...