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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...

Roy McFarlane's second poetry collection, The Healing Next Time, is a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody and of a life story set against the ever-changing backdrop of Birmingham at the turn of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593466353Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948779940Author FatimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957709700Author Shayna KleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP...

From laundrettes to contact lenses, Paul McCartney's trousers to plane crashes, McGough guides us through the pitfalls and idiosyncrasies of our illogical and unexciting lives, and finds the humour and drama hidden within. This new collection has a bonus...

In a volume which follows on from and complements the Everyman Pocket LOVE POEMS. Assembled in this beautifully created pocket gift hardback is a wide range of erotic verse from ancient India and China to present-day Britain. Though these are poems of...

Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as "The Tyger" and "Jerusalem," and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake's radical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789550658Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and dislocating. Fagan's...

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...

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples...

One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881426Author A E StallingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 234g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739169718Author Georgie HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Fourteen PublishingPublisher Fourteen PublishingWeight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was...

Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251591Author Ross ThompsonFormat PaperbackImprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press

In this title, ten Welsh poets write about a spiritual homecoming.Book InformationISBN 9781902638386Author Norman SchwenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books

Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlistYour Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of...

The work of America's Jane Kenyon (1947-95) is one of poetry's rarest and most heart-breaking gifts. After fighting depression for most of her life, Jane Kenyon died from leukemia at the age of 47. Her quietly musical poems are intensely moving,...

It Never Rains by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation's favourite poetWhile up at MagdalenSpent the time dagdalen.Moved on to CaiusBecame the baius knaius.'Oxford Blues' is one of the many new poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530059Author Nan ShepherdFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly.Book InformationISBN 9780876857328Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint ECCO...

A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest...

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck at the dice and with Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly...

Of special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important...

He comes each week to loosen his limbs, lose some weight, make the heart beat stronger, longer. This is a skilful collection by a poet well acquainted with relative place: wherever a poem lives, it always remembers its place in the world. Indeed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190296Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 160mm...

What is a neighbour? What makes a community? In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe focuses on the urban places she knows and loves, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under the extreme pressure. These poems look urgently into the future,...

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2023. Stav Poleg's poems are about cities, what they contain and what they lack; and all cities are habitable and analogous, The City: London, New York, London, New York, Rome. 'Think...

Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Adrift in a surreal world of the everyday, Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets, purchase mail-order tears, sing love-songs to hat-stands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527068Author C K WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645048681Author Katie HulmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint MoonrisePublisher MoonriseWeight(grams) 104g

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Emery brings an unusually wide-ranging poetic vocabulary to the encounters in Modern Fog, depicting wildlife on the Norfolk Broads or a multi-storey car park with equal fluency. These are elegiac, tough-minded poems of marked originality and scope."It's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761785Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for her "Reversible Destiny" architecture Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and...

This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all of his published books of poetry, covering more than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544570313Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin