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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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606044Author Emma MustFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Delightful poetry that everyone can enjoy. Life is like a simple piece of music that we gradually turn into an orchestral symphony as we add experience to our lives. Take inspiration from the world... there is so much to see, do and learn! These often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732816909Author Dally LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922890078Author Sarah HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Poetry HallPublisher Poetry HallWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

The Collected Poems (Second Impression) of Jamaica's Poet Laureate (2017-2020) and winner of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398450400Author Barrington BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her retrospective, New & Collected Poems, in 2010. Her poems...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal's first all-new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. Includes a Foreword by Tim Firth. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999797478Author Sophie HerxheimerFormat PaperbackImprint Henningham Family PressPublisher Henningham Family Press

What can we learn from this unique example of writing from a child experiencing severe abuse, rape and daily violence? What can we learn about how she coped with and understood what was happening to her? Jessica Eaton and Claire Paterson-Young work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018916Author Alan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Presents a combination of poems and photography that creates a fresh soundscape and vision of Glasgow and of a land far beyond its crowded streets. From the screech of buses to the crash of waves on a windswept Hebridean shore, this work features poems...

Five years after the death of Joseph Brodsky, the heir of the generation of Pasternak, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva and especially Akhmatova, this "Collected Poems in English" for the first time gathers all his translated and original poems in English. It...

"There's no point jangling if you don't hear the jingle." Gerry Potter, creator and destroyer of the infamous gingham diva Chloe Poems, welcomes you to his first collection of domestic/fantastic theatre-verse. Biographical, confessional and rich...

Love, sex, boats and friendship. And yet Jo Bell's second poetry collection, Kith, is about so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now.Delighting in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781714821709Author Siegfried BaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 2mm

Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482624Author Chloe HonumFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

In her striking debut, Laurie Ogden wrestles with what it means to define ourselves as human. From the seeming infinity of matryoshka dolls to Maud Wagner and Latrice Royale, Humaning moves through a storm of conflicting notions of womanhood, the body,...

Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031153Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Hailed by some as the most important Scottish poet since Burns, Hamish Henderson lived an epic life against the backdrop of some of the defining social, political and cultural battles - both national and international - of the twentieth century. A...

'Talisman for the Soul' is an immersive and illuminating collection that expresses a powerful intensity of emotion, exploring overarching themes of human interaction, as well as the human need to transform and adapt as individuals. Written by a poet...

War & Paracetamol (or The Bic is Back) is an omnibus volume of poems comprising The Cancer Collection and The F***ing Scary Covid Diaries. An epic journey through viral mayhem.About the AuthorBob Goody is an actor (RADA trained), writer and performance...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035801107Author Tracy FitzgibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771313421Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Brick BooksPublisher Brick BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 141mm * 7mm

"Memories like autumn leaves blow across my path, seeking refuge in their own dark space" Solitary, beautiful, lyrical - Julie Wiltshire weaves a tapestry of loss, grief and redemption in the Cotswold landscape. Original poetry in a stunning new...

Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer.The first volume of...

"I see the hut, its weathered state a focus for an artist's eye; worn and brown amid white-gold sand, a shape to break blue sea and sky ..." Cumbria, Spain, Devon and France - a beautiful poetry collection written on location. Hilda Cochrane sets...

In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by O'Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 and...

A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876198Author Jenny MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two cultures. As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination - shaped by books, art,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915533104Author R.M FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 5mm