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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914379Author Karen Downs-BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785180Author Alice OswaldFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 280mm * 196mm * 16mm

Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure-not only one of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and controversial statesman of his time. Although Wang had little interest in the grandeur of high office and political...

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNew Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and...

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Explorations of a Cosmic Soul. Align your soul and spirit with this beautiful collection of poetry straight from the author's heart. Written by Allie Michelle, this edition includes her author notes that...

This collection provides readers with a perpetually exciting, compact edition of the revolutionary poet's most powerful work. Frederick Seidel has been hailed as 'the poet of a new contemporary form' (New York Review of Books), and 'the most frightening...

In this new edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, David Parkinson offers editions of Henryson's "Fables," "The Testament of Cresseid," "Orpheus and Eurydice" and twelve shorter poems, grouped according to the strength of their attribution to Henryson,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2017/18 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196128Author Ann GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356293977Author Prerna GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850793376Author William HartstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Express Newspapers plcPublisher Express Newspapers plc

Selected poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in an attractive and collectible format, marketed at a competitive price. This is part of a series which will number about 12 titles.Book InformationISBN 9781912945054Author Louise GuinnessFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524731786Author Gregory PardloFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

The second volume of poetry by Gruffudd Owen, Chaired Bard of Cardiff National Eisteddfod 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781911584759Author Gruffudd OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cyhoeddiadau BarddasPublisher Cyhoeddiadau Barddas

Ellen Hinsey's new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It explores the enduring potential for human beings to set neighbour...

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...

A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman's book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book...

Brilliantly observed, wry, witty and brimming with energy, the latest collection from Pete Marshall ranges from short lyric pieces to prose poems to text conversations to draw astute word-portraits of its array of 'odd fellows'. Inventive, scalpel-sharp,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917005Author Imogen StirlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913675196Author Anna PaczuskaFormat PaperbackImprint Honeybee BooksPublisher Honeybee Books

Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once...

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 9781838151201Author Damian GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint The JunctionPublisher The Junction

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838151201Author Damian GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint The JunctionPublisher The Junction

Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years. Though he has been hardly unproductive, the politics of his homeland...

Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the "Epistle of Cupid," a free translation of Christine de...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916012196Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Scotland's ballads represent one of the high-water marks of Scottish literature and are famous as superb expressions of oral culture, reflecting a world of magic, deep passion and history transformed into legend.This selection includes more than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901383096Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint ArchetypePublisher ArchetypeDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm

Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who...

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this...

Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Poems on historical battles where horses played an important part present us with a commentary on the political agenda of...

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In The Coming of the Little Green Man, his eighth Bloodaxe collection, we enter a world of play...

"if you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body." Pangaea is a collection of poetry about working through the trauma inflicted on a body, whether the trauma comes from a person, a country, or from within. It is the act of...

"I never missed my childhood home / until the tide stopped rolling in and / ochre sand no longer crunched between my toes ..." A little girl grows up to the sounds of the seaside in bustling Cleethorpes. There are family outings through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300641Author Sharon PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999025420Author Emily Rose ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Minerva Rising PressPublisher Minerva Rising PressWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)...

Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and wit, enliven the ordinary...

One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets by Jacqueline Saphra is a poetic journal that chronicles the personal and political upheavals and tragedies of the Coronavirus pandemic. This sequence of sonnets charts the dislocated, frightening and at times uplifting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745797Author James MatthewsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers