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Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he...

Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one...

Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735426Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

China has a strong and ancient tradition of erotic poetry by both men and women, and this unique collection includes poems from three thousand years ago to the present day, ranging from the highly literary to the sexually explicit - many of them...

An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets.Book InformationISBN 9781857157000Author Percy ShelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's LibraryPublisher...

'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled with bizarre creatures - from the Dong...

A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they...

"Poignant, quirky, troubled, the poems in Everyone at This Party are reminiscent of James Tate, Bill Knott, and eternal Edward Lear. Rife with characters who stumble, speakers who suffer, and wisdoms that bristle with the darkest and lightest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. Nominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375755194Author Billy CollinsFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561742Author Anne CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591600Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Benjamin Zephaniah: To Do Wid Me is both a Selected Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. The film shows him performing his poetry for...

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her...

"A landmark volume, filled with beautiful renderings of writings from the Guru Granth Sahib."-Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your LifeAn exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the...

On a frosty winter evening, the Baron watches the snow fall. He is bored and worried. It will soon be Christmas and everything is too quiet. What can he do to bring excitement to the Manor?His wife, the Baroness, has an idea: he can appoint a King of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781693197802Author Fatima AdjilaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2008. Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781854114617Author Kathryn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322150Author J M StormFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Monarch Publishing LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild and The Dark Between Stars comes The Truth About Magic, a fresh, awakened journey outwards. An adventure into the great unknown.It's about finding ourselves, our purpose, and the simple joys of...

Includes Penelope's Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nostos, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853721Author Andy SeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world...

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things - a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's latest book takes the reader on an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143532Author Frederico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479128884Author Rodney MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence, truth...

Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, 'the best refuge was a closed mouth.' In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003619Author Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Spike Milligan's Hidden Words: Collected Poems is an emotional, surprising collection of tender(ish) moments.The complete poems of Spike Milligan, Hidden Words consists of three individual volumes now collected together (SMALL DREAMS OF A SCORPION, OPEN...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2023 The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep undercurrents: of embodied and disembodied spiritualities; of the knowledge of animals; of familial mythologies;...

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the...

In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her...

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including...

When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen...

The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh's inception, evolution, and...

A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson (1910-1970) has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry is marked by an almost limitless range of interest and extraordinary depth of feeling. Olson's themes are among the...

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. 'Zima Junction' vividly...