Death, Grief, Loss

While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published,...

'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive...

Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Rupi Kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Global sensation and internationally renowned author - rupi kaur's milk and honey...

Kae Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; their dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of...

In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays invites you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986270321Author Alexis Rhone FancherFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Kyso FlashPublisher Kyso FlashWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these poems will bring you comfort.For Days When the World is...

'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPESTIn her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985255282Author Dr David BowlesFormat PaperbackImprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781556595745Author Victoria ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633378179Author Jarod K AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Boyle & DaltonPublisher Boyle & DaltonWeight(grams) 558g

'Brave and beautiful.' Stylist Magazine 'Social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy' Sunday Times STYLE 'Divine.' Cecelia Ahern She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony...

Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on...

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a more emotional side to Charles Bukowski.Book InformationISBN 9780876850053Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172537Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm)...

An explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely and necessary collection of poetry from writer William Bortz.Many Small Hungerings is the newest collection of poignant poetry from writer and poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596858Author Tomas TranstroemerFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon."I have always been too sensitive, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527292154Author Barbara GianquittoFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Barbara GianquittoPublisher Barbara GianquittoWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

'Absolutely beautiful and soul-enhancing poems' Matt HaigWritten against the backdrop of global crisis, Nikita Gill's new collection Where Hope Comes From shines a light into the darkness as we begin our journey back to hope. Weaving words that explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739151768Author Niall M OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Nine Pens PressPublisher Nine Pens PressWeight(grams) 68g

An ideal introduction to the poetry of one of this country's finest ever poets and featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.This collection features perhaps Dylan Thomas' best-known poem, 'Fern Hill' - a profoundly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727508Author Carrie EtterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 12mm

The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life. Beloved author and therapist K. J. Ramsey invites you to journey word-by-word through Psalm 23 to...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet...

'Carol Ann Duffy is considered a top poet. But she deserves better. She deserves to outsell most of the novelists on your shelf ' ObserverThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired...

Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Winner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that...

Winner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New Statesman / Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of...

Social media sensation Billy Chapata shares insight and advice into the powerful world of love, heartbreak, and what comes next. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude to survive and prosper.From Chameleon...

The eagerly anticipated new poetry collection from Najwa Zebian, author of Mind Platter.About the AuthorNajwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author, speaker, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age, as she delved into Arabic...

Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of loveIn Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection, we find, in the poet's words, that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a...

Readers have called her work "life changing," "pandemic medicine," and "part of my daily ritual." Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593766580Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 127mm * 15mm

Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Sharon Olds is a force of nature...

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild and The Dark Between Stars comes The Truth About Magic, a fresh, awakened journey outwards. An adventure into the great unknown.It's about finding ourselves, our purpose, and the simple joys of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600475658Author Tom ZubaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bish PressPublisher Bish PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 15mm

"The perfect desert island book." Adam Nicolson"Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach.....

When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things-your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way...