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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739364908Author Jack SpicerFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885188Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737277545Author Arda CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Song CavePublisher Song CaveWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 140mm * 8mm

'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, New YorkerHow does the...

A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments,...

Mrs Scrooge is a delightful Christmas poem from Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Published as a small hardback and filled with bright illustrations by Posy Simmonds, this modern take on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens makes a perfect Christmas gift...

Mrs Scrooge is a delightful Christmas poem from Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Published as a small hardback and filled with bright illustrations by Posy Simmonds, this modern take on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens makes a perfect Christmas gift...

With over fifty new poems from Britain's favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam Ayres' incomparable collection of works.Pam's poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In 'The Swifts' and 'The Pyracantha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473568726Author Emma HeaphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Emma HeaphyPublisher Emma HeaphyWeight(grams) 148g

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-care in her newest goddess-themed poetry collection, Artemis Made Me Do It. Using the framework of tarot and conversation, Mateer approaches myth through a...

The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxinsHere, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American Lyric' form which makes her Forward...

A very special collection of poems by a four-year-old author, illustrated with wit and whimsy by Yasmeen Ismail.Everybody has love.Even baddies.The poems in this book beautifully capture how a four-year-old sees the world - a world of rainbows, glitter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643272Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic's argument or to illustrate a...

A Moonless Night was written between December 2022 and December 2023. "Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance."About the AuthorHenry Normal founded the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the...

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound...

Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections...

A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it in The Lady magazine in 1998. Her charming...

Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761232Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam...

The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet's death, complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien's etchings...

Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless...

This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - INFERNO, PURGATORIO and PARADISO - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted...

Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221057Author Lola OlufemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and...

Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian...

Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet.'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted HughesThe complete works of one of Britain's finest, introduced by Andrew Motion.About the AuthorR. S...

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral...

Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of...

'It's really, really, really funny' David Walliams Mole Press - a brand new imprint of Penguin Books - is proud to announce the first publication of The Collected Poems of Adrian Mole to mark the author's 50TH birthday.--------------------------- 'Edgy...

Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an...

The eagerly anticipated new poetry collection from Najwa Zebian, author of Mind Platter.About the AuthorNajwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author, speaker, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age, as she delved into Arabic...

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612618579Author Tania RunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Somerset Maugham Award 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781854114037Author Owen SheersFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022 and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2016. Short-listed for Lakeland Book of the Year 2016.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759024Author HoraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...