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"There are so many words, insults, labels and boxes for women to be packaged and packed off in. Often, but not always, they're words coined by men."Why that is, is a bigger conversation that is starting to be had by women everywhere. We're slowly, but...

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

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...

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...

Includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry.*Intoduction by Jan Hewitt *Accurate text and notes *Chronology.About the AuthorBorn in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling...

The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems - including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000). McNeillie's poems...

Gerard Woodward's poetry has long been admired for its sharp and unflinching eye, its fearless surrealism, its blacker-than-black humour, and its ability to find a little abyss in any detail, no matter how innocuous or domestic. Here, his considerations...

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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 9780807068878Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his development...

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...

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)...

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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The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. In the Lay of the Voelsungs is...

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...

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...

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 9781101908167Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603864800Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910323151Author Dimitris LyacosFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

An informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines. Uniquely, the theme and structure are both guided by the "Pennine Poems" of the late W.H.Auden. Chapters on geology, technology, the environmental legacy of mining, social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912986Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911356080Author Benjamin MyersFormat PaperbackImprint MayFly PressPublisher New Writing North

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 Virgil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780666Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and WattmannWeight(grams) 720g

'The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes,' Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374272630Author Ted HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764083Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 867gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Poetry selection in the popular Cranes Classics series, well known poets produced in small 64 page hardbacks with attractive covers.Book InformationISBN 9781912945207Author Anthony EyreFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Mount Orleans PressPublisher...

The major male poet of nineteenth-century America (his female counterpart is Emily Dickinson), Whitman is the poet of grand passions great open spaces, lofty mourning and male love. Written in free metres, his verse ranges across every kind of subject in...