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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...

"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the...

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

A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose amongThe bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensongOf joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and...

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 *...

From her own experience of mental illness and what she has learned from friends and family, and extensive research, Samantha Crilly shares a collection of more than 50 inspirational poems that give an honest and relatable insight into what it means to...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limon.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907526636Author Robert BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Alloway Publishing LtdPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 220mm * 141mm * 33mm

This collection spans twenty-five years in the career of this highly regarded poet. It features poems from the books Stars, Calling the Dead,When There Are No Secrets, and Against Dreaming, along with seventeen new poems.C.G. Hanzlicek won the Robert...

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, The World's Wife. Witty and thought-provoking, this is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916312142Author Sylvia PankhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin...

'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half...

Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between...

For fans of Milk & Honey and Chasers of the Light, the first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation Atticus. Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387779709Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books

Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through...

'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch 'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I'm not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you,...

A Kingdom of Love is a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world from poet and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann.About the AuthorRachel Mann is an Anglican parish priest and writer. She was Poet-in-Residence...

'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he...

Reading Homer presents two highlights of the Iliad: Book 16, where Patroclus fights and dies, and Book 18, where Achilles grieves for him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle. It enables students who have been learning Greek for perhaps...

Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and...

This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems.Certain...

A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A glorious collection of works old and new' Independent...

Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the...

Collected Poems, Vol. 1 includes all of the poems from Henry's first three titles with Flapjack Press - Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Travelling Second Class Through Hope, and Raining Upwards. Staring Directly at the Eclipse was Henry Normal's first...

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror. She is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477126387Author Tito Rajarshi MukhopadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was...

Winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023. Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize 2022. The Poetry Book Society Winter Special Commendation 2022. 'The ancients taught me how to sound modern,' A.E. Stallings said in an interview...

Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945588471Author John MurilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747464Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co

A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world's most loved mystical teachers. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift for every MBS reader. Jalal-uddin Rumi was...

Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London; memories of an older Trinidad and visits that tell him both how he and...

This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative...