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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995729049Author Bob WoodroofeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint The Greenwood PressPublisher The Greenwood PressWeight(grams) 154g

Stand-up poet, comedian and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall returns with Complete and Utter Cult! the follow-up to 2017's "Viva Loch Lomond!". This new collection of satirical verse captures Elvis' ongoing futile exasperation at the dismal...

Sean Singer's radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman's, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient...

This work provides a wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition, the need for awareness of "cosmic consciousness", the problem of good and evil, and methods of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134572Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

Happiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from Jack Underwood. These bright, beguiling poems worry at the world, surreally exploring the 'reservoir of wrongheaded questions' with which love and death confront us. Readers will meet life's...

Basil Bunting (1900-85) was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger writers, the Northumbrian master poet had to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892551279Author Marie HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals including, "Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry," "Black & Asian Poets," "Out of Bounds," ""and "Ten New Poets."...

Bargain Bin Rom-Com is the first collection of poems by Leena Norms. From the politics of ice-cream to the permission slip you didn't know you needed, this is a tongue-in-cheek look at living on a planet that is filled with both doom and glitter.The...

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten propectors and...

Anthony Hecht described Donald Justice as 'among other things, the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.' This memorial volume of his complete poetry testifies to his subtle and enduring brilliance. With painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance he...

Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The...

This collected editon of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of poetry, poetry previously published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and poetry which has never been published before...

In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a...

There's little that's been written yetConcerning teenage etiquette,So as a sort of useful guideSome gruesome cases lie insideOf teenagers who lost their wayAnd ultimately had to pay.You'll read about the tragic fateOf Pete, who couldn't get a date,And...

There's little that's been written yetConcerning teenage etiquette,So as a sort of useful guideSome gruesome cases lie insideOf teenagers who lost their wayAnd ultimately had to pay.You'll read about the tragic fateOf Pete, who couldn't get a date,And...

Material Properties, Jacob Polley's fiith collection of poems with Picador, asks what it might mean to interpret and translate wildness into human language and human understanding. The book is a multi-faceted and vital exploration of the non-human, the...

O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction. Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and...

Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection 'There are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful recognition. And yet it is also part of his genius to be...

Brendan Kennelly was one of Ireland's most popular and prolific poets. Over five decades he wrote thousands of poems published in over 30 books of poetry, including three previous editions of Selected Poems. Published on his 75th birthday, this new...

'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a...

A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from...

Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.About...

'Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.'Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the YearOpening with a powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196401Author Wendy PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through...

'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound - exploring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985255282Author Dr David BowlesFormat PaperbackImprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Some Problems with Autobiography, Brian Brodeur's fourth collection, grapples with the porous and fragmentary nature of midwestern American identity in poems that range across prosodic forms and hybrid genres. By turns self-mocking, meditative, and...

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...

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...

In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as...

Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and...

Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can...

Journeys Across Breath collects poems from the extraordinary career of one of the UK's most significant poets, Stephen Watts. Gathering all of Watts' published works between 1975 and 2005 - as well as a number of unpublished pieces appearing here for the...

Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is...

This is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning. - C. K. Williams, from his judge's citation for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely heedful of nuance both physical and visceral, cinches...

This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to...

Lavinia Greenlaw's first collection, Night Photograph, made an immediately favourable impact. Her second collection, A World Where News Travelled Slowly explores more local and personal matters. Its central theme is the unpredictable act of...