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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218994Author Jerzy FicowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Letters Home, Jennifer Wong's remarkable and vivid third collection of poems, unravels the complexities of being between nations, languages and cultures. Travelling across multiple borders of history and place, these poems examine what it means to be...

The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metaphor, description, and dance. They tend...

A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to extend the...

Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives...

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print,...

Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the characters, the motifs and the moments that set his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589290Author Phillis LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781594204777Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin Putnam...

From family to relationships to race, we all have different factors which contribute to our overall identity. Blackish explores the complexity of Identity, whether it be how one identifies themselves, or how their identity is perceived by others...

The first collection by poet Jess Green is taken from her spoken word show set in an inner city secondary school suffering the cuts and blows of the Coalition government. Burning Books champions the underdogs; the unnoticed and unheard stories bearing...

28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple's creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665741248Author B GermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and...

Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate - political, environmental,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852443538Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852443538Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060969165Author William StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Dressing for the Afterlife is a diamond-tough and tender second collection of poems from British Cypriot poet Maria Taylor, which explores love, life, and how we adapt to the passage of time. From the steely glamour of silent film-star goddesses to...

In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,...

Greekling,the much-anticipated debut poetry collection by Kostya Tsolakis, celebrates and commemorates damaged and rejected Greek bodies, be they of flesh and blood, made of marble, or natural bodies. In intertwining Greek culture, history and poetic...

The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change and family life. Rukeyser was a social activist...

How You Might Know Me is a poetic exploration of four women s lives, connected through their experience in different areas of the UK s growing sex industry. Written following years of workshops and Sabrina s own experience of working in strip-clubs, the...

The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range...

Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998060378Author Richard L GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Richard L. GravesPublisher Richard L. GravesWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598616Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic, proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way across narratives of genders, and addresses the brutality of social conventions with caustic humor. This labyrinthine text...

St Gregory's poetry is open and self-revealing and has personal character. In these poems he speaks of the joys and frustrations of his own life; he reveals his inner questioning about the purpose and value of life in the face of sin and mortality; and...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385044011Author A.L. AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Based on the rider-waite-smith tarot cards, this book dives into the world of tarot through delicate and illuminating poetry that stirs the soul.Inside this book, you will find 78 poems, one for each card in the Major and Minor Arcana-all a poetic...

Jane Burn's new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from the Snow Queen to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of...

Born in India and considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a two-time Nobel nominee and winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. His evening readings in Hindi/Urdu-speaking regions drew thousands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876761Author Sarah SalwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the...

With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers.The Drowned Book is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586170301Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; and a young woman dreams of leaving home. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his...

Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable...