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Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in...

Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533052Author Professor Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. This Selected Poems celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer - a vivid minimalist, ruralist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113771Author Ruth BidgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiance, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in...

Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popular of all the English poets. Wordsworth's verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of...

Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T.S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZEbandit country, the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson, is a rollicking, hyper-literate and at times deeply...

Here are all of Ferlinghetti's poems set in the city he has lived in for over half a century. He brings alive, with wit and lyricism, scenes of city life: a Giants baseball game, the Green Street Marching Mortuary Band, bohemian North Beach, Golden Gate...

There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion, the present selection draws on the literature of many periods...

"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life...

Myfanwy Haycock (1913-1963) mapped out a career as one of Wales's most talented female poets during the mid-twentieth century and was dubbed as 'Gwent's second voice' at the age of nineteen. A skilled illustrator, journalist and broadcaster, Haycock...

WINNER OF THE MICHAEL MURPHY MEMORIAL PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEIn the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the...

The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie. Here are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196120Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony. In this bilingual collection of...

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. 'Trees crawling with babies, babies darting through the sky or buoyed by thermal vents, babies painted with false eyes' ('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is...

Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III! His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series. r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey,...

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

This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060604523Author Coleman BarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mon/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean - the island is imagined here as a...

Iain Morrison's debut collection I'm a Pretty Circler is experimental without being intimidating; conversational without being casual; and outrageous without shedding tenderness. Within its pages, Emily Dickinson rubs shoulders with drag queens, while...

Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally...

Limbic is Peter Scalpello's glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slippery nights out fuelled by chemsex, on drunken lads' holidays, and into the quiet violence of small domestic moments, this is a world where tracksuits hide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914416Author Zoe WalkingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

John Ashbery's "Collected Poems 1956-1987" contains the complete text of the poet's first twelve books, from "Some Trees" (1956), selected for publication by W.H. Auden, to "April Galleons" (1987), and including "The Vermont Notebook" (1975) with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595288Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

The hero's journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic...

Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917456Author Catherine GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9780156983501Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525618645Author Harvey FiersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

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...

Cynthia Miller's debut poetry collection, Honorifics, is an astonishing, adventurous, and innovative exploration of family, Malaysian-Chinese cultural identity, and immigration. From jellyfish blooms to glitch art and distant stars, taking in Greek gods,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436057Author Penny BoxallFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174883Author Sir Thomas BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272825Author Alfred, Lord TennysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615502Author Nguyen Thi Minh HaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...