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Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2022 The Adoption...

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational...

Emery brings an unusually wide-ranging poetic vocabulary to the encounters in Modern Fog, depicting wildlife on the Norfolk Broads or a multi-storey car park with equal fluency. These are elegiac, tough-minded poems of marked originality and scope."It's...

A love letter to horror films where poems are the paragraphs. Featuring hilarious and chilling persona poems about iconic horror films with accompanying art by Joel Amat Guell.TOCAlienAmerican PsychoA Nightmare on Elm StreetA Serbian FilmAt Midnight I'll...

Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727010Author Vanessa LampertFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm

Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. . Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough. These exuberant poems welcome...

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Lemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay's work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation as one of the UK's foremost poets as he ably moves from loud...

It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day...

This fresh edition of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnets, developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a Foreword by the actor/director, Fiona Shaw. Its easily accessible layout and elegant design make it the ideal gift for any special...

From acrostics and riddles to kennings and paradiddles, this is a fun anthology of puzzling poems which also encourages children to have a go at writing poetry themselves. I am a Jigsaw is perfect for teachers who want to introduce different forms of...

Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politics and reggae...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029422Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805705Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)...

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Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565559Author Sean Wai KeungFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives...

Dogtooth is a book about ghosts. Not in the undead sense, but more as in the spectres and echoes of absent friends. It looks at the discomforts, paranoias and phobias that haunt a very particular cultural moment.It's a book about fear, about a background...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861521791Author Kenneth MacleodFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 5mm

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation' Garth...

Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022. Awarded the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Butler Literary Prize 2022. Shortlisted...

Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences,...

Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings of Beowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on...

W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American...

The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. High Priestess to the moon god Nanna, Enheduanna came to venerate the goddess Inanna above all gods in the Sumerian pantheon...

Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great English poets. Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic career only flowered after he had retired from novel-writing in his mid-fifties. Over the next...

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen...

A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card Selection At the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, `the tied circle' - a circle with two dots above it that indicates a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735471Author Blythe BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.The Selected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789963610372Author Najwa Kawar FarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Rimal Publications,CyprusPublisher Rimal Publications,CyprusWeight(grams)...

Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678023348Author Yuusuf Cismaan CabdilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775151104Author Gary JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Johnson PublishingPublisher Johnson PublishingWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788088628033Author Max BlecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon Press

When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.Satirical, mischievous,...