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Taking Walt Whitman's Civil War poems as an inspiration, Rob Halpern's Music for Porn moves across the landscape of battlefields and homoerotic affect in an encompassing engagement of desire and death. Halpern work, constructed of poetry and lyric prose,...

"Eyes like blue diamonds, a smile that captivates the heart Floating on the clouds I have no wings I am not a bird but I watch from a distance Listen can you hear it, the whisper of the wind Circling around me" My Very Tree is Beverley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367452Author Rachel McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 60g

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire-and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks "what name / do you...

A diverse and cacophonous poetry collection tackling subjects from identity to current events. At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, Genghis Chan on Drums is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing...

The tenth-century Saint Sunnivamade a miraculous voyage fromIreland to the Western Norwegianisland of Selja, where she tookrefuge in a cave. In 1170, her incorruptrelics were translated from Seljato Bergen Cathedral. This is anattempt to liberate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368135866Author Timothy Arliss ObrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 150g

Following on from the runaway success of The Magicians of Edinburgh, renowned poet and novelist Ron Butlin conjures up Scotland's past, present and future in this new collection. From Skara Brae and the Roman invasion to the independence referendum and...

As the opening poem of this debut, Death of a Pie 'n Mash Shop, attests: Chip Hamer is not your typical man of letters. A founding member of the Poets on the Picket Line squad, his poems have been bellowed against the din of rush hour traffic from picket...

This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. HoodWitch tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "something...

Once upon a time, there was pain. Pain was all she knew, love never came easy for her. For the love she craved was not the love she deserved. If my pain could speak, would you read me till the end? This book contains shorts collection of poems about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606297Author Simon MaddrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930479Author L. KiewPage Count 24Imprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 204mm * 156mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914393Author Jon MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like Awe. Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names and boldly pushing the boundaries of confession. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367919Author David TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

London Undercurrents is a collaboration by two London-based female poets Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire. This poetry cycle gives a voice to women who often go unheard, or are self-sacrificing in order not to upset the apple cart. There are thousands of...

"Poetry," Michael McClure has said, "is not a system but is real events spoken of, or happening, in sounds." And for thirty years, whether in his early "Dionysian" lyrics or his evolving "bio-alchemical" wisdom, his work has shown a ferocious energy and...

A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance. Written in loose sonata form, Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest. Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss, and along the edges...

Peter Bennet is a storyteller who reinvents the world each time he writes, and does so with linguistic resourcefulness and panache, bold imaginative strokes, subversive connections, and dark wit. He has also armed himself with a sophisticated dramatic...

Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) freely plundered the works of Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and others to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of astonishing originality, wit and verve. Here he depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects,...

Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time-Anglo-French, English, and Latin-was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936315522Author Anthony GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint StarhavenPublisher Starhaven

The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since the love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods - pre-Islamic, Ottoman classic, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838367701Author Victor RumanyikaFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Victor Rumanyika PublishingPublisher Victor Rumanyika PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908742681Author Myra SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Ward Wood PublishingPublisher Ward Wood Publishing

Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy history of speculation about the nature of such a place of purgation. Through these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368246630Author Helen GeraFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 36g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464482833Author Taymaz ValleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035815340Author Leyla CeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780676974010Author Gordon DownieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130079Author Al AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 225g

The Lion Bridge, Selected Poems 1972-1995 offers for the first time a comprehensive view of Michael Palmer's extraordinary poetry. Dense and haunting, analytic and lyrical, classical and profoundly avant-garde, Palmer's work has a matchless beauty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910323625Author Dimitris LyacosFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Love, this is about love. You can't be taught to love, that doesn't exist. The only way to know love is to learn it, learning through happiness and sadness, through the good and bad, through pleasure and pain and through the beauty of others. Whether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130970Author Katherine HollanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841023977Author Caroline CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint University of Plymouth PressPublisher University of Plymouth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861523351Author Derick ThomsonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 215mm * 150mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398422148Author Raymond HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110836Author Talitha WingFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press