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Greta Garbo, the immortal goddess of the silver screen, said that she wanted to be alone. What if she had been granted that wish? What if she had travelled further and further until she arrived at the North Pole? And what if she met a faithful dog along...

Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his muse and model, who was also his wife. It is a rich pattern for the study of the mysteries of domesticity, the unspoken privacies...

Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) who, along with his contemporaries Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Albert Mockel, Charles van Lerberghe and Max Elskamp, helped to define the Symbolist movement, is one of Belgium's most venerated and admired...

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

Zebra is the debut collection from Hebden Bridge-based Ian Humphreys. These acutely-observed and joyful poems explore mixed identities, otherness, and coming-of-age as a gay man in 1980s Manchester. Humphreys is a fellow of The Complete Works programme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727034Author Rachael ClyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm

'It's never too late to have a fling, for autumn is just as nice as spring . . .'Christopher Matthew's latest collection of canny comic verse negotiates the perils and pitfalls of romance in later years. Love is revealed in the most unlikely places, with...

'It's never too late to have a fling, for autumn is just as nice as spring . . .'Christopher Matthew's latest collection of canny comic verse negotiates the perils and pitfalls of romance in later years. Love is revealed in the most unlikely places, with...

'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awake' Mark DotyIn The Trees The Trees, each new line is a...

From social and political issues to found poems, Gibson's fresh, evocative (and sometimes provocative) writing is both modern and timeless. These poems spring from taxis, supermarkets and long car drives through the wind and rain. They spring from...

This is the first cloth edition of one of the most highly praised and touching collections of poems to appear in recent years. In selecting it for the National Poetry Series, Philip Levine said: "The courage of this book is that it looks away from...

The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406057Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 49gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913961428Author Palmer SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Press Dionysus LTDPublisher Press Dionysus LTDWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123330Author Michelene WandorFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets.The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals-a poetic form of rhyming couplets-in a distinctive Indian style...

San Juan de la Cruz, the 16th-century Spanish mystic, is regarded as one of Spain's finest poets. Passionate, ecstatic and spiritual, his poems are a blend of lyricism and mystical thought. This book presents a translation of the complete poems, with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856358999Author Eavan BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher Carcanet Press LtdWeight(grams) 100g

Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to show us...

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909357624Author Geoffrey WinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm...

Here the long edge / of town Low / winter fog / .... My breath / my offering We are / our bodies burning Firmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick Errington's first collection traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534823Author Sandra CisnerosFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

An outcast, an outsider, an oddball. With too much ambition and not enough talent, Saffron Jack has never fitted. Now, with the feeling that his time is running out, he needs to do something drastic to change his life. So what better idea than to run...

In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America's brutal history into a poetic whole.About the AuthorJoy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the...

The most celebrated of French medieval poets, Francois Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw urban life of Paris with its petty officials, students, clergy, tradesmen, pimps, whores and thieves. Despite successful studies, the young Villon...

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 9 male, 5 female, plus various minor roles, gypsies, and extras. 2 Interior Sets/2 Exterior Sets A brilliant and penetrating satire about an unemployed man who contemplates suicide and is besieged by spokespeople of...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398483446Author Red BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353424985Author Elias LonnrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 32mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504363167Author Shiloh SophiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the third and final volume in his newest series. r.h. Sin completes his bestselling series with Planting Gardens in Graves III, another powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the...

The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486824437Author Jessiel. WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907359811Author Jonathan StedallFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn PressWeight(grams) 333gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398427518Author Jayne Salisbury-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035851621Author David BowerbankFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993131240Author Stephen CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Kingsway Publishing, BathPublisher Kingsway Publishing, BathWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595806Author Traci BrimhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.