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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780374604103Author Louise GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher...

Velvel's Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a...

In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486442877Author John MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm)...

Linda France's seventh full-length collection is concerned with the dualities of our inner and outer worlds - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experiment, ideal and reality. At the heart of the book is a section look at Nature and...

Can you hear the distant dragon's rumble of thunder? And smell the sweet swampy aroma of the ogre? Can you taste the tangy tarantula tarts? And see the girl who's really a wizard? From magic carpets and wands to unicorns, potions, creams and lotions,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471127Author Rebecca NieFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The Fire Hills was written between December 2021 and November 2022. Reflecting the first year of the author's move to Fairlight in East Sussex, this collection explores new landscapes armed only with a pen and unwarranted optimism.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2010 and Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975616Author James L WhiteFormat...

This collection marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil's voice and vision, while rooted in the Hebridean islands, is open to a wide range of cultures, not only those of Scotland - from Gaeldom to urban Scotland - but to...

This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of...

In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648989325Author David TensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint St Macrina PressPublisher St Macrina PressWeight(grams) 127g

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...

From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins' Old Food lurches from allegory to...

Introduced by Jackie Kay, this selection of poems include the famous 'Strawberries' and 'One Cigarette' and four from Morgan's autobiographical sequence, Love and a Life - love in all its aspects.About the AuthorEdwin Morgan (1920-2010) became Scotland's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739173005Author Clive BransonFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565345Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)...

Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections...

Winner of the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections 2021. Slip-ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double...

Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This selection of poems, now available in paper for the...

In 2013, Leanne O'Sullivan's husband Andrew suffered a severe infection in his brain. He spent just over three weeks in a coma, during which time his temperature soared to 42 degrees. When he finally woke it immediately became clear that his memory had...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959052542Author Alexander KlugeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in residence at the Bridgewater Hall,...

Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana, and marks a significant departure of style to something quieter,...

Hans Borli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days seem to have been divided into two separate parts: by day, he lived the physically demanding life of a lumberjack, but by night, he turned poet and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910834749Author Ben BanyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human and the non-human.Book InformationISBN 9781784109554Author Rebecca WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher Carcanet Press Ltd

'High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [...] What a tremendous gift to readers to witness a poetics balanced so deftly between intellect and instinct.' - Kayo Chingonyi In myth, the Pillars of Hercules near the Straits of Gibraltar mark...

Read a sample poem for free - just click the Extracts tab above.Shortlisted for the 2013 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.In her debut collection, Melanchrini, Maria Taylor's distinctive poetry slips fluently amidst the worlds and underworlds of classical...

Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on...

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Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) who, along with his contemporaries Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Albert Mockel, Charles van Lerberghe and Max Elskamp, helped to define the Symbolist movement, is one of Belgium's most venerated and admired...

There are two acts of recovery in this book - one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice. In its title-sequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398473270Author D. J. ChardFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. The Floure and the Leafe explores the courtly imagery of the flower and leaf, wherein the...

The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends - pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record - they forced the people to...

The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks among the world's greatest masterpieces of religious literature. The material which makes up the Masnavi is divisible into two different...