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'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062427366Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 325g

"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Gluck's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for...

In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole...

"WITCH is sexy, frightening and cerebral. Rebecca Tamas is the real deal." KATHERINE ANGEL; WITCH is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry. Rebecca Tamas reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the...

This volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material...

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807084861Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

'We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew flatter and the roads became quiet and dusk began to colour the sky, you could guess from the way we returned the radio and...

Claudia Schmid's drawings meet Matt Harvey's words in this affectionate look at dogs and their humans. Sit! is an entertaining, occasionally surreal, but mostly down to earth celebration of the strange, satisfying relationship between dog and human...

Mylo the Dino is an epic, fun and heartwarming rhyming children's book. The story follows a young, adventurous dinosaur who strays from his herd and must find his way home. But in doing so, Mylo makes a few unexpected friends along the way... and learns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113139Author Anna EnquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 253g

In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360227Author Lee StrasbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition.The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete...

Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from...

Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely...

It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910392157Author Sean BonneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon Press

To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and served...

'My poor old heart, I've left its drawbridge down' Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans, empty car seats, and his father's skeleton clocks...

Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the short...

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who...

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of...

First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the...

Selected Poems gathers together the best of Gillian Clarke's poetry in a single volume. National Poet of Wales, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award, Clarke is one of the best-known names in UK poetry...

`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines...

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come. Now, Armitage's reputation as one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130178Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 875g

Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece "Halcyon" in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530011Author Don MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804395165Author Kit AllsoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

The 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. It became a phenomenon. Hundreds of poets took up the challenge and their poems swept the board of poetry prizes, publications and personal successes.This book brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022 (India).Book InformationISBN 9781913738389Author Sudeep SenFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Pippa Rann Books &...

The Gorgeous Nothings - the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear - is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of...

Theresa Lola's debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving. Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family...

"YouTube Mastermind" Orion Carloto turns raw emotion into powerful, digestible verse in her debut collection of poetry.Flux is a somber narrative, an ode to change, a collection of poetry and prose written from the many states of grief over a broken...

The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and...

This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem excepting Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. These poems explore many different kinds of love: sexual,...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without...