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German poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kate Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is...

"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play...is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Rafts and Dreams: "While digging up the roots of a tree in the garden, Neil,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578913377Author MacKenzie August-McClureFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Donovan BeckPublisher Donovan BeckWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902121789Author Eavan BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Poetry Ireland Ltd.Publisher Poetry Ireland Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739281205Author Alan JenkinsFormat PaperbackImprint New Walk EditionsPublisher New Walk Editions

'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow - and even glimpses of 'full sun'. This selection from his own work does not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436217Author Helen MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380733071Author Naomi Shihab NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins Children's BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke. The Antioch Review has ascribed to him a"profoundly earthbound...

Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916877900Author D B WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint D.B.WrightPublisher D.B.WrightWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916877900Author D B WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint D.B.WrightPublisher D.B.WrightWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999173920Author Mira HadlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Miranda WilliamsonPublisher Miranda WilliamsonWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914591Author Cliff YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398488564Author Mark RaybouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Arrow is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is 'Dear, beloved', a more-than-elegy...

Out of the doll's house and into the woods, Bunny Girls steps out of the shadows of girlhood and looks at the world with wide eyes. Surreal, spiky, wise and darkly funny, this new collection by Costa-winning author and poet Angela Readman expertly mixes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060750022Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995120426Author Keith HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Attar BooksPublisher Attar BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

In The Invasion Handbook Tom Paulin sets out to recount the origins of the Second World War. The result is a triumph of technique, a simultaneous vision which proceeds by quotation and collage, catalogue and caption, prose as well as verse - a myriad...

In The Invasion Handbook Tom Paulin sets out to recount the origins of the Second World War. The result is a triumph of technique, a simultaneous vision which proceeds by quotation and collage, catalogue and caption, prose as well as verse - a myriad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917364Author Jennifer WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943977178Author Sam SaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCPublisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)...

In her third collection, acclaimed performance poet Sophia Blackwell explores connections, relationships and journeys, and celebrates their importance in a divided world. From Brighton, Paris and the Edinburgh Fringe to Amsterdam, Australia and outer...

Moon jellyfish live a life adrift, relying on the current to take them where they need to go. They are the ultimate survivors and one of the most successful organisms of animal life. So how do they thrive in the open ocean when they can barely swim?...

Human Work was written while cooking. It is the narrative of a voice in domesticity, at the alchemical heart of home - the hearth, or Hestia - where the kitchen is a stage for acts of eating and uttering; for the ebb and flow to the human mouth. The...

In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to "extend the choreography."In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441421516Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 130mm * 8mm

The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. "Miyazawa Kenji: Selections" collects a wide range of his poetry and...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English languageThe term "Love Language" can be read at least three ways: as an imperative, as the signoff to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788300162Author Victoria RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope,...

Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope,...

A new child should mean new hope. But what if that's no longer so? Ailbhe Darcy's second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565023Author Casey BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495760Author Keith RavenscroftFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

These quiet, surprising, amazing poems deliver to the reader fresh contact with wisdom for life--lessons we should have known had we paused a little more and looked, things we may have known and lost track of, insights we perhaps sense and now can...

Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was an award-winning poet and one of the leading British novelists of the twentieth century. He wrote more than fifty books, establishing an enduring critical and popular success with his 1958 novel Saturday Night and Sunday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398461338Author Daniel J L RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...