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On the Surface of Silence offers for the first time in English the final poems of Lea Goldberg, pre-eminent and central poet of modern Hebrew poetry. These extraordinary texts, composed in the last years and even last days of the poet's life and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913196035Author Crispin BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Partus PressPublisher Partus Press

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 *...

Road Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell, and an accomplished craft in using traditional and contemporary forms. As a poet of Jamaican heritage, born and raised in north London and now working...

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

"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its...

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...

What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478336Author Louise MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135395Author Joanna KlinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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

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 *...

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

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space...

Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping...

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...

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

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136897Author Zeina Hashem BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece "Halcyon" in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a...

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...

In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux's trademark vitality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110911Author Paul BirtillFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press

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 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...

"The 501 quatrains of Second Best Moments in Chinese History" make it seem at first like a repackaged version of Frank Kuppner's celebrated first collection "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (1984)". But it isn't: 'Please note that this...

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,...

Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an...

*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which...