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Collecting poetry written in the years 2011-2014, Sentenced to Life sees Clive James look back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty.After falling dangerously ill in 2010, Clive James did not expect to live to see...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530011Author Don MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Bestselling poet r.h. Sin, author of the Whiskey, Words, & a Shovel series, presents a poetry collection that illuminates the transformative power of emotional pain.Algedonic is an aesthetic outlook on pain and pleasure. Complex emotions simplified into...

'A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali SmithBy turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in flux, as...

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love...

Spanning fifty years of work, Collected Poems sees Clive James make his own rich selection from across his exceptional career in poetry.From his debut collection in 1986 to his dazzling achievements in the 2010s, Clive James steadily built his reputation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625570215Author TJ SandellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence Press

In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in...

Another gorgeous collection of poetry and prose from Australian poet and social media sensation Beau Taplin. Beautiful, inspiring, and empowering, Worlds of You sweeps readers away on a journey of emotion. Filled with lyric wisdom, Taplin's second book...

With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection. It has grappled long with politics and has provided the...

THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME. NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE, THEY DID THE F***ING JOB.Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he's left it battered and bruised, too. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, here for the first time are his...

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third and final installment in her "women are some kind of magic" series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957596037Author Lisa LilithFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016.Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Impeccable, precise poems, sometimes shocking and strange, but always startling' Irish TimesA lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while...

Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten...

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author amanda lovelace presents the women are some kind of magic boxed set - a beautiful and empowering trilogy guaranteed to awaken your inner goddess. All three volumes of the women are some...

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things - a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's latest book takes the reader on an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739507008Author Anna SpringettFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint OhkiPublisher Ohki

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565429Author Helen CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly...

"Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted. The reader has been invited to a sleepover at the asylum, a night in which five-year old girls drift alone through the wards, where the mentally unstable do sit-ups when nobody is watching and where...

From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind,...

John Clares verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound understanding of nature and of his contemporary rural society.* Introduction by leading academic or author notes:...

A beautiful dedication to powerful women who are tired of wasting their thoughts on people who were never worth thinking about.She Just Wants to Forget is the follow up to the New York Times bestselling poetry collection She Felt Like Feeling Nothing by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962152467Author David WhyteFormat PaperbackImprint Many Rivers PressPublisher Many Rivers PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 10mm

Can we be lonely together? Asks r.h. Sin in this heartbreaking collection of poetry.A Midnight Moon is a moving collection of poetry from celebrated bestselling author r.h. Sin. With the honesty and transparency that he has become known for, Sin takes...

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and...

This is not the time for adultery.Your lover will fail to be impressed,not so much by the face maskand stale musk of sanitizing gel,but your flouting of the rules.At once funny and moving, Safety in Numbers is the new collection from the nation's...

In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'SUNDAY...

"What a clear, insistent health there is here--as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982415208Author Ginnie BaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 978-3-9824152Publisher 978-3-9824152Weight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 9mm

"What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?" Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In this first...

'A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness,' Guardian'In its cutting compassion, Homie is as much a celebration of loved ones' lives as it is a lament for their loss, equally a war cry for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735600Author Michael LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 10mm

Completely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy.Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love...

It is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry, but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the whole of nineteeth-century culture in Britain and America. His literary...

A perfect choice for young Bible readers, the NKJV Holy Bible for Kids includes numerous study helps with the trusted New King James translation to make Bible reading fun and accessible for kids!Kids will be proud to carry this easy-to-read edition of...

'Charly is social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy' Sunday Times STYLE [Charly] is turning a new generation on to poetry' The Telegraph From the bestselling author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959118213Author Sophia-Maria NicolopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Querencia Press, LLCPublisher Querencia Press, LLCWeight(grams)...