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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692139837Author Emily ByrnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Telescopic PublishingPublisher Telescopic PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

Chosen as a TLS Book of the Year 2019. This vital collection restores to print and prominence the work of Douglas Crase, a poet of revisionist invocations of the American landscape and transcendentalist tradition. Douglas Crase is best known for a...

Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection. Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196746Author David WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910012635Author Rosemary HectorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Muddy PearlPublisher Muddy Pearl

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993272806Author Oneness SankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Sankara House PublicationsPublisher Sankara House Publications

From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet spellbound by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. When You...

Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most of his life in Rome. Openly gay, Penna wrote verses celebrating homosexual love with lyrical elegance. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528997409Author Holly JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In this original and compelling collection, Nicoletta Arbia summons the voices of five classical women to recount their intimate stories, charting each woman's journey of renewal and personal growth. In retelling the stories of Persephone,...

'Bird Sisters exerts a powerful hold, as if to read it is to be haunted by things one half-remembers.' - Moniza Alvi'All is strange or estranged in fact, but it is articulated in poems of supple inventive concentration. In that sense Bird Sisters is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Arvon Foundation Prize 2010 and Fish International Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781915022059Author Jean O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Salmon...

Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, she helped shape the style and genres of later medieval poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398452671Author Paul Edward SkirtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

"Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged", Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his...

This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. "The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman "Dovetails bittersweet poetry...

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) was an American writer, often referred to as 'The Father of American Literature'. Among his most notable works include his novels, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Less well known, but...

How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov’s Collected Poems presents her marvelous,...

Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann's poems...

Ethna MacCarthy (1903-59) was a Scholar and a First-Class Moderator at Trinity College Dublin where she taught languages in the thirties and forties before studying medicine. Perhaps best known to posterity for her relationship with Samuel Beckett and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780957326675Author O'Brien DanFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971255Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm...

A number of the poems in this collection by Michael Hofmann show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whose relationship with his son was also the principal subject of his celebrated 1986 collection, Acrimony, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957326651Author J. O. MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398442122Author Susan SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Clare Pollard wrote her first book The Heavy-Petting Zoo while still at school. Its sequel is Bedtime: a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as cruelty and pretence, where reality and fantasy are blurred. These are cutting poems from the edge,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528903547Author Georgina JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977264Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

'Geis' is a word from Irish mythology meaning a supernatural taboo or injunction on behaviour. In her long-awaited third collection, Caitriona O'Reilly examines the 'geis' in all of its psychological, emotional, and moral suggestiveness: exploring the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606600160Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 1410gDimensions(mm)...

What to do when everything goes up in flames? Summon up A Man's House Catches Fire, Tom Sastry's debut collection of poetry, with all its elegant, satirical and hurt-quenching power: here are nightmares and fairytales, museums full of regret,...

Funded by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a programme of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme offers four poets a year the time,...

In this large full colour coffee table size hard cover book, Kevin O'Dowd shares, for the first time, a collection of his poetry. It is raw and sometimes confrontational, but thought provoking and at times brutally honest. Kevin has his own style of...

Rimming the Event Horizon gyrates a mutinous poetics of revenge, purposing contingency as a major mechanism of racialisation but also as a source of resistance and refusal, of material and imaginative possibility. It is not really a punitive poetics but...

Of the three books collected here, the first is celebratory of Islam's eschatology (next-world doctrine), the second an homage to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the third written on an 'Umra in 1995/96 to Mecca and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876419Author Jane LovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium throughout his writing life. All his preoccupations - social,...

Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium throughout his writing life. All his preoccupations - social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983243731Author Sonya VatomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Two Dollar RadioPublisher Two Dollar Radio

In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting new voices. The theme of imprisonment is variously addressed: in...