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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553273823Author Hugh PratherFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was a successful American novelist. He was famous for four novels; 'This Side Of Paradise', 'The Beautiful And Damned', 'The Great Gatsby', and 'Tender Is The Night', which earned him recognition as one of the...

Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once...

From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889491Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 20mm * 145mm...

Frost is one of the foremost writers of American poetry. This is a thorough compilation of his seminal works.Book InformationISBN 9780312983321Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's...

Could you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and...

'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' Harold Pinter. From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of...

A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from...

R.F. Langley is known for his meticulous observation of the natural world and his highly original voice. This volume brings together his two previous Carcanet collections, Collected Poems (2000) and The Face of It (2007), along with his celebrated but...

'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London...

The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the...

This seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 1998. It celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names.Inspired and influenced by roots, reggae and hip-hop, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614713Author Paul MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop...

A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favourites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of nineteen books including Chelsea Girls. Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the...

A. E. Stallings has established herself as one of the best American poets of her generation. In addition to a lively dialogue with both the contemporary and ancient culture of her adopted homeland, Greece, this new collection features poems that, in her...

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and...

Delving into his life and experiences of love, loss, growing up mixed-race in Newport, and more, this is the debut poetry collection from award-winning multidisciplinary artist and children's laureate Wales Connor Allen.From Lucent Dreaming, an...

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as poetry, he wrote songs, stories and novels, plays, essays,...

Brandon Som's The Tribute Horse unearths strange knowledge about the ways migration acts upon and is affected by a body's language, culture, perception and physical manifestations. Using found text, prose poem and Oulipian narrative, Som constructs a...

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers's work for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391006Author Jeff AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Cane, Corn & Gully is a genealogical and autobiographical collection which unites dance and poetry to observe, question and ruminate on what it means to adopt, perform, and pass down the notion of black West Indian femininity. Using labanotation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356292345Author Mani RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

This dual language edition is reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il...

Murmuration is a year's worth of emotions, anxious thoughts and panic attacks, each one a beating wing in the mind of the author.Fans are saying: "Beautiful inside and out", "Lovingly designed", "One of the best poetry books I've read so far."Murmuration...

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Special Commendation. Chosen as a TLS Book of the Year 2019. This generous volume collects new work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English. Hacker writes pantoums, sonnets, canzones, ghazals...

Neon softly lights the shadows of LGBT issues, mental health, school, grief and longing. Delve into a mind of swimming pools and hospitals, planets and supernovas, classrooms and therapy offices, playgrounds and the sky - all bound together in tight...

In Paris & Other Poems Hope Mirrlees's remarkable long poem Paris, originally published by the Hogarth Press is 1920, is published alongside later poetry, prose essays and previously unpublished work. Paris is now recognised as a 'lost modernist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The wittiest and yet most accessible writing in mid-seventeeth-century England, Andrew Marvell's poetry is both passionate and brillant, erotic and comic, cool courtly and seductive. The friend. admirer and supporter of Milton, Marvell was also a very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411426962Author SparkNotesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Barnes & Noble BooksPublisher Sterling Juvenile

I'm relieved to find such things are there, in spite of hunger and carnageunder the same moon, and my place in their terrible chain; glad that my mother's hands, after long years of sustaining us all, will place on her table, once again, her annual...

After the death of his father, Raymond returns to Jamaica but restless questions begin to unearth inside him (Who I am now is something I need to remember). Upon returning to the UK Raymond travelled to Bristol, Liverpool, Hastings, Hull and around...

100 Favourite Scottish Poems brings together the best and best-loved of Scottish poetry. From anonymous medieval ballads to the renowned work of Sir Walter Scott and Edwin Morgan, the cream of the nation's poetry - from the Borders to Shetland - is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm

This is the fourth in this popular series of poetry books by Jean Hill. Acclaimed for real life, viewed from a thought provoking angle, sometimes reflective, often humorous, and occasionally sad, but always captivating. Topical poetry to make you laugh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620767910Author Athol WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Theart PressPublisher Theart PressWeight(grams) 113g

A powerful story told through linked poems which raise questions of race and identity in an honest and tangible way for younger readers. How can Irene and Charles work together on their classroom poetry project? They don't know each other...and...