Death, Grief, Loss

Sorry I haven't texted you back, (I've been so anxious and depressed) I haven't had time to catch my breath, you know how life gets!Returning to the form of Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back is a poetic mixtape dedicated to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835381762Author Renetha FentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Maple PublishersPublisher Maple PublishersWeight(grams) 95g

How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes the prize-winning sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of speech and found text from a hospital residency to pay homage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979870774Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint S4n BooksPublisher S4n BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 6mm

From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to...

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.Book InformationISBN...

In 2013 poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The result is The Hard Word Box, a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a surprising and enriching journey through memory and...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035860401Author Mark JuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorialising the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict...

Murmuration is a year's worth of emotions, anxious thoughts and panic attacks, each one a beating wing in the mind of the author.Fans are saying: "Beautiful inside and out", "Lovingly designed", "One of the best poetry books I've read so far."Murmuration...

An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, Tishani Doshi's Forward-shortlisted A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732861060Author Kindra M AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Blank Paper PressPublisher Blank Paper PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829504Author Abraham SutzkeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944599164Author Grace AndrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ancor PressPublisher Ancor PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm

The long title poem of John Greening's The Silence is a meditation on Jean Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony, which in the end he probably burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the...

From the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of women's strength. There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish...

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Roisin is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received...

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and...

Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen...

With vibrant ribbons of color and joyous words, These Are My Big Girl Pants depicts the complexities and nuances of being a woman in this world.From award-winning artist Amber Vittoria comes These Are My Big Girl Pants, a collection of poetry and artwork...

In Elegies Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on death, grief and loss, drawing on work written over four decades, and adds to her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534880Author Megan FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

"As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764083Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 867gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry and quote for a lifetime.Small Cures is at once a compelling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185872Author Sabrina BenaimFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596759Author Dean RaderFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800312357Author Lesley WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595752Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects his essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.“When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what I'd do my whole life. I don't regret it." - from the afterword by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534939Author Charles SimicFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594981142Author Julianne DinennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Fernwood PressPublisher Fernwood PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739614607Author Hazyn ForsytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint hazyn forsythePublisher hazyn forsytheWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639821419Author Olga SedakovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Slant BooksPublisher Slant Books