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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914275418Author Ashley MesciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Perspective Press GlobalPublisher Perspective Press GlobalWeight(grams)...

A poet, at a desk, in a shed. A shed which is temple, bunker, study and look-out post all rolled into one.Not far away, in the surrounding West Yorkshire countryside, the local council have begun "peeling back turf" to turn a former cow-field...

Power walks in dressed like your best friend, offers to pay the bills and buy the drinks. Tells you to get some sleep because they've got this, they'll keep watch, stop anyone getting in. Then Power leaves in the night and clears out your house. This is...

A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with all 33 of Rognvaldr's verses from the Orkneyinga Saga. While full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, the poems convey the skill, vigour and daring of the original.Rich narratives...

Deborah Alma's debut poetry collection Dirty Laundry is raucous, daring and honest, drawing contemporary women's lives and those of our foremothers into the spotlight. It voices bold, feminist songs of praise: of persistence, survival, adventures of...

The pioneer 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 lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly...

"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger stories of peoples and nations that...

The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have...

The Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Choice. The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.About the AuthorFred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents and grew up in Guyana, returning to England when he was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398442290Author Clare SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916226302Author Frances Corkey ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Spm PublicationsPublisher Spm PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

The last works of the last great classic European poet now available in English. In his 96th and final year, and with the help of the poet Jose-Flore Tappy, celebrated Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet finished two manuscripts-in-progress, one in prose and...

The innovative debut collection from Adam Kammerling, Seder is an archived and deft account of a person reckoning with their heritage and family history. Hybrid, dexterous and informed, Kammerling retraces his Jewish heritage back to the concentration...

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets'Taut, ferocious . . . This is a book about survival, and a welcome, confident debut' New York Times Book ReviewEmily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery,...

This volume serves as an excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. Of the three groups of English Charlemagne romances, the Ferumbras group, the Otuel group, and...

In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the...

In Lasagne, acclaimed poet Wayne Holloway-Smith moves between internal and external landscapes with pace, panache and vulnerability. This short collection of poems is a defibrillator resurrecting a small part of the universe at each new twist: a silent...

Never out of print since its first publication in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's collection of prose poems is one of the best-loved volumes in world literature. Gibran's transcendent verse cycle follows the prophet Almustafa as he boards a ship bearing him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956049681Author Anthony KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Swan PressPublisher Swan PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of the 2020 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.Book InformationISBN 9781912196418Author Rosalind EastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406309Author Alex WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 118g

Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly reimagining classical literature, wittily subverting epic works,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398493919Author StealthWorksFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

"A necessary reminder that whatever we are feeling, we are never feeling it alone." -Trista Mateer, author of Aphrodite Made Me Do It"There are defining moments in our lives that we often experience in certain places. It's in these places, that we feel...

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and...

A woman sunbathing on a demolition site in Bridgeton. Two women in a punch up in Glasgow's West End. A young mother breast-feeding in an art gallery. A working man stepping off a tenement roof on a snowy morning. City streets. Country lanes. A letter to...

Way to the West is a glorious collection resulting from a collaboration between disciplines of art. Featuring twenty-five beautiful full-page watercolours alongside accompanying poems, its focus is on the western tip of Cornwall. For Andy and Vally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413777140Author Lewis CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Methuen Publishing LtdPublisher Methuen Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391143Author Isabella RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944092842Author Robert Parke-HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Twin Palms PublishersPublisher Twin Palms PublishersWeight(grams) 1610g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486826912Author E.E. CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781555974657Author Kathleen JamieFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm...

This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably "Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach". It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous occasional verse, much of which is fugitive and little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477067Author Faisal MohyuddinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 207gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

"The Canto General", thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.About the AuthorJack Scmitt is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese at California...

Jay Whittaker's debut collection, Wristwatch, won the 2018 Saltire prize for Poetry Book of the Year. In this eagerly awaited follow-up, Jay explores themes of origin, asking what shapes us most: our biological heritage or the societies we find ourselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999703080Author Christine De LucaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician Press

An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. The Floure and the Leafe explores the courtly imagery of the flower and leaf, wherein the...

I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples.A landmark dual collection by one of the most important contemporary Japanese poets, in a "generous and beautifully...