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'Who knew that writing with this degree of care and pain and tact was still possible? For my money it's the best first volume in decades, I would say since Tom Paulin's A State of Justice (1977): no dead weight, foot-perfect and engaging.' Michael...

This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere , Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. ABOUT THE...

An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves's poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet,...

Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through intense, powerful lyrics, she explores how these...

Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir's poetry bears...

Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of...

Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anais Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by...

In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'SUNDAY...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588648Author Rene GuenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 131g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600763Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Dramatic new retellings of Celtic poetry's great lyrics and legendsAbout the AuthorMartin Shaw is a mythologist, a storyteller, an author, and a designer of mythic life and oral...

Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair-from the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the...

Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair-from the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the...

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic...

A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, from...

A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life. Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified by the earth's looming mortality, and their own, but...

Paul David Tripp shares his celebrations, disappointments, cries for help, confessions, and confusions in the form of 120 poems written as he experienced God's grace in various seasons of his life.About the AuthorPaul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster...

Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic...

Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history’s most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.Rooted in the Gulf Coast, A History of Half-Birds measures the line...

Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with...

Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map...

Yehuda Amichai was first brought to attention in this country by his inclusion in Modern Poetry in Translation (1965). The magazine's editors, Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes, here provide a selection of Amichai's poetry translated by various hands,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935405Author Distinguished Writer Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

There is something richly circumstantial about Alison Brackenbury's poems: they are often rooted in a rural world, or in townscapes which sustain communities and preserve a strong sense of their history and what it gives them. Thorpeness has delicious...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It...

Green Shoots Rising is an exciting and stimulating collection of poems aimed primarily at primary age children. It's full of thought provoking and amusing poems which children, and adults will love. The 'green shoots' of the title are a play on words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943512034Author Wendy E SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wendy E. SlaterPublisher Wendy E. SlaterWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)...

'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric...

The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648705710Author Ziggy AlbertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Commonfolk PublishingPublisher Commonfolk Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476073Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map...

Originally published in 1925, A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse is an impressive and beautifully crafted collection of the best of Irish poetry from ancient times to the early twentieth century. It features folklore and legend, often beautifully...

After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and...

The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After publishing two extraordinary poetry collections - and six...

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...

Los Angeles Times Book PrizePEN Voelcker AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book PrizeNew York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books NPR's Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistNational Book Critics Circle, FinalistGriffin Poetry...

Why is itThe roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawnWakes us so early?A warrior king is on fire!His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitarsAnd it's shivering red-hot - with rage!First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both...