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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374513054Author Randall JarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

"Bevel" is William Letford's first book, but his poems have already earned him a large following thanks to his brilliant performances and through Carcanet's "New Poetries V" anthology. Letford makes poems from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily...

In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought "the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Her first book, the highly original postmodern text Dictee, is now an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905826018Author Jennifer SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Taliesin TriviumPublisher Taliesin TriviumWeight(grams) 123gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A revered classic of 1970s New York conceptualism, Bernadette Mayer's Memory synthesizes writing and photography in this prescient "emotional science project" A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727348Author Taz RahmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 318mm * 12mm

One of the greatest poems of the classical world, Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation.'Georgic' means 'to work the earth', and this poetic guide...

Edited by Lilias Fraser, Jane Cooper and Kate Hendry, To Learn the Future is a selection of poems that will grip at first reading - perfect if the only time you have is five minutes in a rushed lunch break. The choice of poems includes insight for days...

Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions-those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944769314Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993030604Author William AyotFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Sleeping Mountain PressPublisher Sleeping Mountain Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374638Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one...

New pamphlet by Natalie Shapero. Natalie Shapero is author of poetry collections POPULAR LONGING, HARD CHILD, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and NO OBJECT, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award.Book...

Frances Horovitz's poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the...

This selection of Blake's poetry is packaged in an attractive and collectible format and marketed at an attractive price for the customer. It is part of a series of poetry titles designed to be seen as a set.Book InformationISBN 9781912945047Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390601097Author Vincent BerquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Cyberwit.NetPublisher Cyberwit.NetWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Galway Kinnell was one of America's major modern poets. This new selection - drawing on eight collections from What a Kingdom It Was (1960) to Imperfect Thirst (1994) - updated his 1982 Selected Poems, which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808365Author Upton SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 908Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

"Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns in cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood,...

A rich collection of poetry that celebrates our idyllic countryside, with verses on rural life, the changing seasons, the vast woodlands and seascapes of Britain and the wildlife that inhabit them. Beautifully illustrated with nostalgic scenes of...

Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his...

Caleb Parkin's debut poetry collection, This Fruiting Body, plunges us into octopus raves and Sega Megadrive oceans, in the company of Saab hermit crabs and ASDA pride gnomes. It's a playful invitation to a queer ecopoetics that permeates our bodies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838465377Author Linda FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903080092Author Lavinia GreenlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPublisher Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to their...

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911356059Author Sid ChaplinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Moth PublishingPublisher New Writing NorthWeight(grams) 900g

Shadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill,...

Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems have been astonishingly popular with children and adults alike since the first publication of Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and have influenced the work of a host of modern writers, including James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borgese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913675318Author Gill PakesFormat PaperbackImprint Honeybee BooksPublisher Honeybee Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999930950Author Wilson OryemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Wilson OryemaPublisher Wilson Oryema

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709432Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590474Author Sandor CsooriFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

A greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent). Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in...

By turns sensual and incantatory, "Common Prayer" offers a liturgy for a world in crisis. Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. Challenging and...

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid - from one shore, the Bristol Channel, from the other Mor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374604Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal...

Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life. Vibrant, at times...