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States of Happiness, Suzanne Batty's second full-length collection, begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister. This explores their relationship from shared birth to her twin's early death from Friedreich's ataxia, a rare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528986922Author Claire S. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Formally distinctive and beautifully honed, Mother, (v) is a reflective, precise and poignant sequence exploring fertility and its absence. This is honest, exquisitely realised poetry written with a freshness and intelligence that draws the reader in...

This selection of Kim Seung-hee's most recent poems is drawn half from her ninth collection, Hope is Lonely, and half from her tenth collection, Croaker on a Chopping Board. Focusing on humanity's utter fragility through, among others, the themes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307588Author Patricia DoneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was undoubtedly one of the most admired and influential English painters of the twentieth century. Cookham was a major influence on both his life and painting and his reference to the place as 'a village in Heaven' is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954316Author Gary AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035806959Author Eric CravenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196432Author Sarah WimbushFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615842202Author Mark Jeffrey RuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Green Lotus PressPublisher Green Lotus PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565474Author Sharena Lee SattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there. At either end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913432607Author Stella DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Stairwell BooksPublisher Stairwell BooksWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528971188Author Carly Louise MacRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God", remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today -...

Returning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979, where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life, Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems, written at a rate of about 10 a day: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910669051Author Bernadette CreminFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634720Author Kajal AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon PressWeight(grams) 58g

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space...

At its heart a collection of love poems, Because we could not dance at the wedding is about coming out, coming to terms and settling down.Through a series of vividly observed scenes - from single- bedded student flat to registry office waiting room, from...

This is a book of poetry: half human, half emergency. It's about what it means to be alive and angry and afraid. It's about the climate crisis. 's about the coronavirus pandemic. It's about being in hospital and having kids and growing older and being...

Cyfrol o gerddi sy'n pefrio o ddelweddaeth gynnil ac iaith eglur yw The Hollow Bone. Ynddi, fe'n gwahoddir i fyfyrio ar ryfeddodau byd natur - y coedwigoedd, y mynyddoedd ac ehangder Antarctica. Enillydd y Cinnamon Press Debut Collection Poetry Award...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565016Author Amerah SalehFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486685Author Rebecca Morgan FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

CLICK & COLLECT is a sequence of poems that explores the shape and shaping of consumerism, internet culture, queerness and emotion. How do we brand the world around us and how does it brand us? Across lyrics and half-story-poems, CLICK & COLLECT gives...

Cargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transported...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Boston Book Review (Poetry) 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780374525996Author Frank BidartFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher...

Forms of Protest collects together for the first time the work of Hannah Silva, a poet known for her fearless and wholly original vocal performances. These poems and experimental texts oscillate between sense and nonsense, meaning and music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800743441Author Shree BhattacharjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

"Whichever way I take I meet myself returning." A poetic journey from the mills and moors of the industrial north to the meals and mosques of the Byzantine middle-east and back again. I Meet Myself Returning is about finding your feet in our convoluted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062101860Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm) 224mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354078873Author Ashish BagrechaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Biplob World PvtPublisher Biplob World PvtWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The Immortal Memory remains the centrepiece of the traditional Burns Supper and although that rite might be seen by some to have had its day, the 'Immortal Memory' itself still retains its importance and prestige to Burns lovers all over the world. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902121789Author Eavan BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Poetry Ireland Ltd.Publisher Poetry Ireland Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398468832Author Danny HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804394243Author Lutfiya DadabhayFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398475786Author Didi HakataFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother...

Poetry selection in the popular Cranes Classics series, well known poets produced in small 64 page hardbacks with attractive covers.Book InformationISBN 9781912945153Author Anthony EyreFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Mount Orleans PressPublisher...