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The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers...

This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended late-meditations on form, content, and spirit. To apply his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646822525Author Travis J WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204555Author Jacci BulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Book MillPublisher Book MillWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375407895Author John HollanderFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

Donald S Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection of poems written during lockdown at his Shetland home, Murray explores the changing geography of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126386Author Jessica HischeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398485075Author RT ChiwutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Notes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed and illuminating voyage of dislocation and longing. By turns evocative, unsettling, and full of 'small acts of magic', Mookherjee simultaneously finds the...

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a...

Vrettakoss poems are firmly rooted in the Greek landscape and coloured by the Greek light, yet their themes and sentiment are ecumenical. His garden, his own heart, are but a microcosm of the entire world, of the whole of humanity, and both contain...

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...

"You are my destiny, The compass points to you, You can have the best of me, When I get back to you" A poetry collection written with humour and honesty in the cab of his truck - HGV driver Michael John Evans takes a fresh look at the...

A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the...

"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

Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. The familiar world becomes richly disquieting, edged with danger: mute conjoined twins creating a violent secret world; Emily...

Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry--from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor--offers a challenge no translator has accepted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845234515Author Seni SeneviratneFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606879Author K. EltinaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 162gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

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

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750802Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Raul Zurita's "Purgatory", a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973-1990) in the fiercely inventive voice...

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)...

Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022. ...

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406422Author Debasish LahiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 111g

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 9781999173920Author Mira HadlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Miranda WilliamsonPublisher Miranda WilliamsonWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894849Author Al-Saddiq Al-RaddiFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449493295Author Lang LeavFormat PaperbackImprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781906841034Author Sorley MacleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint...

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