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With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the U.S. Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said:...

'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William Blake William Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589805Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Charting a steady encroachment of shadows over a relationship, Wright engages with the most profound subjects – love and loss, madness, grief, illness – and attends to them with a finely-wrought poetic sensibility, producing a soundscape of nervous,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788308083Author Melanie HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853837Author Rachel BowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is passionate and...

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the...

Jessica Mookherjee, highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prizes, presents her second collection of poems, Tigress. Mixing myth, magic and migration, these poems explore the impact of choice upon our lives and concentrate their magnificent, kaleidoscopic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912894147Author Juliusz SlowackiFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785434266Author Lord George Gordon Byron, 1788-Format PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Deadtree PublishingPublisher Copyright Group LtdWeight(grams)...

These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between 'animal' and 'human'. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training their focus on the language we use to describe youth,...

Tess Gallagher's new poems are suspended between contradiction and beauty. Is, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and journeys toward discovering the full capacity of language. Gallagher's poems reverberate...

This poetry collection includes verse ranging from the tear-jerking "Green Eye of the Yellow God" to the rarely-printed, bawdy "Eskimo Nell". Much borrowed and rarely returned, this is a very popular book for reading aloud in very good company,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725597Author Tamar YoseloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335191Author Maria ApichellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

Figures of history and legend, contemporary figures, the poet's friends and neighbours, and some goddesses rub shoulders in these poems, which begin with the formation of continents and continue into the present. Many characters speak for themselves,...

'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 9781398435575Author Sydney ContehFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914041Author Dean BrowneFormat 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 9781839344749Author Christopher PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Bumblebee BooksPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943724Author Lenore KandelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Poems of faith, love and revenge by a man of intense sexuality and an ardent belief in Christian doctrine.*Introduction by a leading writer or scholar. ...

The first bilingual edition of this radically original workAimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035802791Author Aretha TsangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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

In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother-daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth/story-telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845279028Author Guto DafyddFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

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...

Vaudavillain is the first time punk poet Thick Richard's words have been securely trapped in a book - a cornucopia of political and personal vitriol, acerbic humour and points well-made. Illustrated throughout by the author. "Thick Richard's poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800168060Author Jimmy WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The Greek lyric poet Pindar is renowned for his poems celebrating the victories of athletes in the great games of Greece at Olympia, Delphi (the Pythian Games), Corinth (the Isthmian Games) and Nemea. Pindar's victory odes have the reputation of being...

Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her "Goblin Market and Other Poems" (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best poems...

For the first time, the full canon of poetry from Scotland is available to readers in one volume. The Poetry of Scotland presents all the major, and many less well-known Scottish poets in a broad historical perspective from the fourteenth century to the...

In this debut pamphlet, acclaimed poet Bridget Minamore explores the sensibilities surrounding love, loss, and the subsequent struggles we all face at some point in our relationships. Themed around a series of popular songs and a certain sinking ship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725672Author Katherine StansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

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 9780060935344Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724439Author Claire WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213393Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...