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The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037646106Author Yoko OnoFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524709Author Robert EttyFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 7mm

The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates"Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528935906Author Sara DzydzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

First selection of Andrew Young's best-known short poems and the long mystical poem Into Hades. The volume is illustrated by Joan Hassalal's powerful wood-engravings.Book InformationISBN 9781857543926Author Andrew YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own...

Bath of Herbs is her beautifully crafted, honest and thoughtful first collection which explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’,...

Europa, Sean O'Brien's ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shared heritage and an age-old state of being, a place where our common dreams, visions and nightmares recur and...

The second in the ground-breaking mouthmark series, 13 Fairy Negro Tales is a vibrant pamphlet of contemporary poetry. In language scooped directly from a paintbrush, Inua Ellams announced his arrival on the poetry scene, with what has become a runaway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645600619Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This wonderfully sharp and witty collection of poems - feisty, bawdy, erotic, irreverent - is an illuminating comment on women's ability to transform poetry into a medium of subversiveness. There are jibes at hypocrisy and prejudice, plenty of sexiness...

From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance,...

'They call me Jax, though my real name's EvaThe whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious divaNo.1 on the guest list, top of the chartsWhen I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins parts...'From Hamburg to Jo'burg, Oslo to Soho, Patience...

'They call me Jax, though my real name's EvaThe whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious divaNo.1 on the guest list, top of the chartsWhen I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins parts...'From Hamburg to Jo'burg, Oslo to Soho, Patience...

In Gregory Leadbetter's second poetry collection, Maskwork, mystery, theatre and ritual combine to reveal rather than to disguise. The mask, in these resonant poems, acts as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing - granting access to altered states and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957459649Author Richard O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Emma Press, ThePublisher Emma Press, The

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 9780997416435Author Jeanette LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Jeanette LeBlancPublisher Jeanette LeBlancWeight(grams) 254g

In Poppy, Joseph Minden explores how the totems of remembering are always, also, sites of suppression. The poems in this debut collection take in a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme, an ill-fated visit to Penang, rumours of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913248024Author Ana Sophia Sawaya HeinlFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint ThinkaeonPublisher Thinkaeon

Though North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have escaped. Known only by his pen name, the poet and author 'Bandi' stands as one of the most distinctive and original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573121845Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Dogtooth is a book about ghosts. Not in the undead sense, but more as in the spectres and echoes of absent friends. It looks at the discomforts, paranoias and phobias that haunt a very particular cultural moment.It's a book about fear, about a background...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739173029Author Michael StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

A literary expert introduces 90 of the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps readers understand and appreciate the literary beauty and the spiritual truths they contain.About the AuthorLeland Ryken (PhD, University of...

PETROL HONEY features work from the Edinburgh fringe shows (the Yellow Show and the Sky Show) that have earned him cult status and a growing army of fans. PETROL HONEY explores the deeper meaning of the colour yellow, whether Lurpack is available in...

It is no understatement to say that Billy Collins has found poetry a whole new audience across the English-speaking world. No poet writing today insists on such open, direct and courteous engagement with the reader, and no poet has shown the common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398493261Author Christopher WhybrowFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...

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 9781913917388Author Rona CranFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787803701Author James ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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

'A triumph ... A wholly original and creative mind' NEW YORK TIMES 'A multi-genre phenomena, it's a triumph of a creative mind' GLAMOUR 'Frightens and astonishes ... Combines Maya Angelou's passion and Sylvia Plath's devastating self-inquisition'...

The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set...

The Working Classic is a collection of poetry, interviews, and essays with Aaron Kent. These diverse texts attempt to showcase how a gentrified creative industry routinely ignores working class voices unless that voice is an act of appropriation by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060724290Author Nikki GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Last Woman Born on the Island is an exploration of the past and the present, and a celebration of the landscapes, both physical and emotional, that make up our lives. What are the colours of the language or languages we speak, and how do they infl...