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A magnificent anthology of the finest works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, perhaps the premier American lyricist of the twentieth century. --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.Book InformationISBN 9780856359590Author Edna St. Vincent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497008Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A New Yorker Essential Read of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 An NPR Best Book of 2022 A Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry...

The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385498883Author Angel FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735365Author Phil KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629966591Author David HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Emblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural world in literature. Emblem revitalises this forgotten...

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

The lively 'bears' in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality, and you'll be transported from the British...

Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. 'In a documentary', she wrote, real things 'lose their reality... and there's no poetry in that. In poetry, something else happens.' If film, for Tait,...

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...

Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140424300Author Phillis WheatleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

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...

A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments, Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past...

From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the...

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)...

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908167Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a...

Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her...

Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the...

This book-length poem is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 when thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced, with families later split between the two countries. Inspired by family history, Moniza...

Fatherhood is the debut novel from award-winning poet Caleb Klaces, combining prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction. Following the birth of their first child, a couple move out of the capital to the northern countryside, where they...

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS-ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST No Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from Sao Tome to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470616161Author Jean DonaldsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994430663Author Mary WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, are represented in this stunning new...

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473622848Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Jessica UrlichsPublisher Jessica UrlichsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume...

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things - a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's latest book takes the reader on an...

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,...

In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the three books published together in 23 BC the second is in many ways the most rewarding. The first ode, for...