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These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. ...

The extraordinary career and impressive literary output of the 'Father' of Polish comedy, Aleksander Fredro, are the subject of much celebration in Poland in 1993, the bicentenary of his birth. These new translations by Noel Clark of three of Fredro's...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413572905Author Sir Arthur Wing PineroFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 304g

The debut poetry collection from a talented, fresh-voiced poet, People: Unfinished Poems is a lyrical, thought-provoking and moving selection that observes and enjoys the beauty and strangeness of people, exploring their connections to themselves, each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264226Author Karel Hynek MachaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772260Author Tawfiq ZayyadFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

"There was a time when I was not the Dictator's Wife though I'm not supposed to talk about it." The Dictator's Wife confides this in you: her husband has blind spots. Any day now, he may be overthrown. And what of love? It is paling her, until she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786197153439Author Katerina StoykovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Accents PublishingPublisher Accents PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

“The poet of rapture and tenderness” (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God. Each poem in The Invention of the Darling is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598371Author Gillian ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524532Author John MoleFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

The Covid-19 virus outbreak of 2020 will forever be a pivotal part of human history. The impact was global and affected everyone on the planet. Here, in the UK, we managed the coronavirus in similar ways to other countries but also with a degree of...

The first English-language collection from one of India's most hard-hitting writers, these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance. Militant, satirical, and biting, Kalyani Charal pulls no punches in eviscerating paternalistic - and...

Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds. Her creations 'Motherbird' and 'Fatherbird' are inspired by her parents, and by the loss of her father and by his emigration from Pakistan. Among the many bird-related poems are versions of the French poets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473316525Author Colin RorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Cold Hub PressPublisher Cold Hub Press

Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: "His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578537412Author Makenna MisuracoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jack Wild PublishingPublisher Jack Wild PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of...

will-o'-the-wisp, noun: 1. folkloristic phantom light hovering in the wilderness, often luring travellers away from the path 2. something that keeps disappearing or is impossible to reach and catch 3. glimpse of magic in real life. This illustrated...

Callie Gardner's debut collection Naturally it is not: a poem in four letters is a remarkable work written between the Spring Equinox of 2016 and the Spring Equinox of 2017. It is a work that moves between form, part lyric, part manifesto, part essay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853745Author Antony DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 5mm

Cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet internationally. His work exists in multiple translations in a wide range of languages and major 20th-century poets as diverse as Auden, Brecht, Brodsky, Durrell, Milosz and Montale have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437601861Author HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Ediciones Catedra, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra, S.A.

"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783949977Author Sarah Fuller Flower Adams - Poetr AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913499266Author Damien B DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Hedgehog Poetry PressPublisher Hedgehog Poetry PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528916004Author Gary Niel HitchingFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This collection started as a whisper, a quiet mouth asking questions. Over the years it became a coherent voice that kept getting louder. Now it is a song, sprung from a yearning to fill in the missing parts, to understand my mother's story. Perhaps it's...

This unique feature on Iraqi Jewish writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems - written by 17 authors - all of whom are of Iraqi descent. For several centuries, Iraqi Jews were key contributors to Iraq's rich social and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995680548Author Cheryl PearsonFormat PaperbackImprint Pindrop PressPublisher Pindrop PressWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398446533Author Sara AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398462861Author Paul HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578736396Author Makenna MisuracoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Jack Wild PublishingPublisher Jack Wild PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet scratched with Greek script in the waxen wings of a bouffant bee, and she thinks of the...

"Window for a Small Blue Child" is the story of the poet's experience of in vitro fertilisation, a sequence of poems underscored by the seasons and by the biological clock of a woman in her forties as she navigates the risks and choices, the drugs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800160316Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The latest book by the Sarah Maguire Prize-winning poet and translator Brian Holton, Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds is a collection of Scots translations of poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, two of the most renowned poets of Ancient China. By bringing two of...

"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language," said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems-dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876501Author Rufus MufasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing