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"why don't you write about yourself ever people used to ask / and I didn't know why / either in Chinese one word can lead you out of the dark / then back into it / in a single breath" Magnolia is the debut poetry collection by poet, essayist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251867Author Doireann Ni GhriofaFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 105g

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an...

What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left.At university the mercurial Johnny...

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...

New York Times bestselling author Gabbie Hanna delivers everything from curious musings to gut-wrenching confessionals in her long-awaited sophomore collection of illustrated poetry. In this visually thrilling installment of the inner-workings of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395850879Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 212mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593048Author John TaggartFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 552g

'All those excessive, useless regrets...'A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge...

Soul searching poetry for a new generation.Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from...

The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today "Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* From the mercurial mind of award-winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371627Author Jamey GambrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

"I have never been anything but a paper girl. Something to tear into pieces. Something to burn."We've all been paper before. We've all been fragile. Leaflike and gently blowing, enough to create stories or build fires. We go through life like that. We...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561896Author Jude NutterFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645349979Author S HukrFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307263520Author Jalal Al-Din RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816534029Author Kathy Jetnil-KijinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative verse novel We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast...

Una Marson is widely recognised as 'the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature', but whilst her role as an early feminist and a 'first woman' publisher, broadcaster, pan-Africanist and anti-racist features on many web...

Following the success of Catarine's shades of lovers, sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a look into the process of recovering after a particularly bad love.sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a collection of poetry on the feeling of...

More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of...

More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843233077Author Idris DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press

Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is her 21st book of poetry, presenting eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women: Fishface: A disobedient...

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven...

A Silence You Can Carry stands as a searing debut collection from a startlingly brave new talent.The delicate and almost effortless poetry of Hibaq Osman blends everyday objects and movements into monumental invocations. The collection is filled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526177Author Robert PinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

From Hannah Lavery, Edinburgh's Makar. 'Speaks to and for the conflicted conscience of Scotland ... with a power and authenticity like perhaps no other' - The Scotsman In a moment that is demanding you to constantly choose your side, how do you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010044Author Ronald JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint UniformbooksPublisher UniformbooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 142mm * 8mm

The Poetry Bug is a book of powerful poems that will capture the imagination of primary school-aged children; it recognises humanity's never-ending quest to understand ourselves, others and the world around us. Above all else, The Poetry Bug is playful...

Buffun is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This Cromwell is a cocky tyrant who wants to run a football...

In Emily Bilman's The Undertow, the reader is taken on an infinite voyage through memories of love and loss. Gustave Flaubert wrote: Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears. To be...

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was...

After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions in...

After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions in...

The new collection of poems from Christopher Reid.A new poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime's lessons in 'light and being alive'.About the AuthorChristopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A...

The Wanderer's Havamal features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Havamal, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius...

Cold, delicately as the dark snowA fox's nose touches twig, leaf;Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints into the snowBetween trees, and warily a lameShadow lags by stump and in hollowOf a body that is bold to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614980Author Theo DorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 204g