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Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect), one of two key journals which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196401Author Wendy PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376509Author Arthu RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and celebrates living, fired by his belief that there is no...

Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his...

WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frasheri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it . . . A joy to read' W...

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation following transplant surgery that he wrote the poems for this new collection - the first since I Knew the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399903578Author Annie MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint MoorwellbeingPublisher MoorwellbeingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats's first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923, and it is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406309Author Alex WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 118g

Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the 'earthly Muses' whose poetic skills rivalled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910669471Author Kerrie O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 80g

Nascent is a new poetry anthology from Out-Spoken Press showcasing four young, up and coming BAME poets. The book features poems by Jess Rahman-Gonzalez, Mukahang Limbu, Tice Cin, and Maria-Sophia Christodoulou. The editors aimed to highlight young...

This debut collection of poems by former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane explores love, loss, adoption and identity in powerful, precise and emotionally-charged poetry. From bereavement comes forth a life story in poems; the journey of sons,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956488541Author Villayat "SnowMoon Wolf" SunkmanituFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint SnowMoon WolfPublisher SnowMoon WolfWeight(grams) 113g

In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace are classified by Lillian Herlands Hornstein as Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent. Amis, produced in the East Midlands in the late thirteenth century...

New work from an awardwinning poetJoanna Klink has won acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity. Of her most recent book, Raptus, Carolyn Forche has written that she is "a genuine poet, a born poet, and I am in awe of her achievement." The poems...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, there is depth at work where the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725108Author Deryn Rees-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406057Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 49gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Octobers traces the four great tumults of the author's life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565221Author Jasmine GardosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions...

This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical...

Forged on the fields of a 1970s council estate and telling a story 55 years in the making, these beautifully crafted poems take you on an unflinching journey. Spanning five decades and crossing three continents, Anthony Brough's debut collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457539Author Andrew RidgwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The Covid pandemic: an extraordinary time for everyone. The first lockdown of 2020 brought the world to a halt. For some, it meant a time to get closer to family. For others, the nightmare of domestic abuse. Israeli artist Tali Neeman Sabo and British...

Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century', TLS - is all the more impressive for his...

A book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. Porcelain is a book-length cycle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804393109Author Riley HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264417Author Karel Jaromir ErbenFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressDimensions(mm) 190mm * 145mm *...

'No problem here pal. None at all.' In the early hours of the morning, thirty-one-year-old Sheku Bayoh set out to walk home from his friend's place after watching a boxing match. Just hours later, he had lost his life in police custody. Lament for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398474482Author A. J. Ross-EtheridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837940790Author Elisha HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Nigel Planer has been writing poetry for over fifty years. Now he has corralled many of his poems into one volume, Making Other Plans - as in 'poetry is what happens when you're busy making other plans.' This collection forms a poetic memoir, richly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692079850Author Neal SehgalFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Neal SehgalPublisher Neal SehgalWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018237Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A Silence You Can Carry stands as a searing debut collection from a startlingly brave new talent.The delicate and almost effortless poetry of Hibaq Osman blends everyday objects and movements into monumental invocations. The collection is filled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907401138Author Patrick B. OsadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm *...