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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727423Author Tony CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 12mm

Dubbed 'an immaculate survivor' by Robert Creeley, Tom Raworth has remained steadfastly independent of literary fashions and cliques throughout a poetic career spanning fifty years. As When is the first selection of Raworth's writing to address the full...

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian bohemian Charles Baudelaire, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

In her second collection, printer's daughter Heidi Williamson mines the rich language and history of printing to consider themes of belonging, parenthood, love, and how we communicate, and fail to communicate, with each other. Individual, familial, and...

These selections from the esteemed career of Gottfried Benn?one of the most significant German poets of the 20th century?showcase his early, shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, as well as the isolation and fragmentation of...

In this welcome centenary edition of C. Day Lewis' poems, Jill Balcon has substantially extended her husband's own Penguin selections of 1951 and 1969, including not only his last collection "The Whispering Roots" (1970), but also vers d'occasion written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914407017Author Amanda K HampsonFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Bodies. Rhythms. Motion. Sounds. All Fours is a debut collection of poetry from Nia Davies, a book of rituals in language that stalk the space between what is uttered and what is meant. These poems are haunted by the strange traces of the longest words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958850Author Lord ByronFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 34mm

Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost - but not quite - dialogue between the poems and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977272Author Guido CavalcantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739229900Author Tom FinlayFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Finlay Consultancy LtdPublisher Finlay Consultancy LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm)...

Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers and place it as an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are called Midsummer Cushions.' This 'cottage custom'suggested...

"The King of Britain's Daughter" has been specially commissioned as the text of an oratorio for the 1993 Hay on Wye Festival, and is based on the story in the Mabinogion of Branwen, the daughter of Llyr. Family legend associated the story with Fforest,...

For half a century of ever-broadening vision, award-winning poet Harry Clifton has addressed what the Irish Times calls 'his large concerns and his angular relationship to Ireland, one that produces extraordinary verbal and emotional effects'. His latest...

Scholars who study early modern women's writing have been eager for a full-text edition of the works of Hester Pulter since her manuscript was discovered in the mid-1990s. Now that Alice Eardley has brought together all of Pulter's writing-poetry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802276190Author Carol Anne SkipperFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Carol Anne SkipperPublisher Carol Anne SkipperWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609804633Author Antjie KrogFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 377g

Dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind - presenting them for our delight: 'I collect the materials of the small hours, / all that gorgeous...

This anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection is in three parts: it begins with earliest, pre-Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476073Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlistYour Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881163619Author Trevor JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Miami University PressPublisher Miami University PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Matthew Welton makes tunes out of words. Using the sounds and structures of language, he finds new understandings of what poetic form can do. He refuses to be constrained by convention. The title poem borrows its structure from Roget's Thesaurus to spin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414209Author Pavlo TychynaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist Italy...

William Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinson's poetry: `He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.' Of all the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414902Author Adam MickiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079497Author Emma FiltnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 36gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Thomas Blackburn was a haunted and difficult man. His childhood was tormented by an obsessive father (an Anglican priest of Mauritian descent) who scoured his face with peroxide to lighten his skin colour, and an overaffectionate mother. The moral and...

Donald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for 'The Movement' and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers and teachers of poetry. They have also proven of value to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454707Author John SeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 144g

The book centres on the most significant influence in the development of Betjeman's poetic imagination and that element of his life that he took most seriously: the Church of England. Elegantly and perceptively written, John Betjeman and the Anglican...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335641Author Matthew PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079572Author Natalie ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512270Author Michael BaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841454Author Alasdair A. MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785433139Author Edmund SpenserFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374638Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm...