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Coal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." Marilyn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477876Author Mariah WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the...

Richard Murphy (1927-2018) was one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished' clarity. He emerged in the 1950s with John Montague...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335375Author U.S DhugaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681884Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying...

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and...

Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. At last, we have the long-awaited English translation of his celebrated work "L'Arriere-Pays", which takes us to the...

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's...

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the 'pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing'. Into this pause, Owen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565429Author Helen CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721162Author Kathryn SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First Collection 2017. Raking Light is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems...

One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French poetry." Translated by Mark Hutchinson, The Inventors is a companion volume to Char's critically acclaimed Hypnos. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840132458Author Clare GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Grange Books LtdPublisher Grange Books Ltd

C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her...

One of the UK's most exciting up-and-coming hip-hop artists, Scroobius Pip is a master of the spoken word lyric. From his childhood musings in the school playground to his feelings on the rat race, Pip has selected from his online fan collective artistic...

Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel-Child, an `exceptional volume ... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright)...

Egill Skallagrimsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's...

'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221262Author Sophie ChauhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian bohemian Charles Baudelaire, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark...

A Poet's notebook... with new poems...obviously... includes not just recent favourites, television and radio commissioned poems, some freshly minted verse written especially for this book but also notes and gives the background on how, why, and where the...

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as...

Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet, author of Dirty Pretty Things, a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's whimsical and often erotic writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838114923Author Jenny BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Soulful GroupPublisher Soulful GroupWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks away from nothing'. In the poems of Deep Lane the...

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at 37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved children's author whose magical tales have been translated into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725269Author Zoe SkouldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264387Author Jindrich StyrskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800169708Author Glen OglazaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147505606Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1760Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 2041gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398497221Author William SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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...

Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time,...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in...

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted...