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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780802145215Author Kay RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019**A life of St Francis in verseThroughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded expectations, following her own unique path. Now, in Francis,...

A poet, journalist, and activist, Alicia Cook offers a soundtrack of survival. Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn'tIt is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune...

Elves, changelings, leprechauns, pixies, brownies and sprites; England's Queen Mab, France's Melusine, Scandinavian nixies and Scottish selkies: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, always enchanting. This collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957955049Author Stephan LabossiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Stephan Speaks LLC.Publisher Stephan Speaks LLC.Weight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416589921Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams...

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...

In Motel of the Opposable Thumbs, Stuart Ross continues to ignore trends in Canadian poetry, and further follow the journey he began over four decades ago with his discoveries of the works of Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Nelson Ball, Ron Padgett,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062730244Author Robin BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperReferencePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398473430Author Robert LockhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.First published in the 1920's,...

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDFrom the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau's Boat, poems culled from years of...

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...

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528714709Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Accident Dancing is a book of poetry by artist and musician Keaton Henson, detailing his life in fragments, from the extreme to the mundane. Accompanied by evocative pencil illustrations, it is an intimate and unapologetically personal insight into this...

'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' The New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has gathered this selection spanning her entire...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021***A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*Ransom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900385Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Each and every day teachers show up in their classrooms with a relentless sense of optimism. Despite the complicated challenges of schools, they come to and remain in the profession inspired by a conviction that through education they can move...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578867878Author Maggie BowyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Margaret BowyerPublisher Margaret BowyerWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645766622Author S HukrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377834Author Amelia RosselliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Bridgett Devoue takes you on a journey into the transformative world of love, lust, heartbreak, and abuse, and discovers the steps to finding lessons within pain.why does love become abusive? and when does pain become a lesson?Soft Thorns Vol. II is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354743Author Ryan AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g

"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."--David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle .....

Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink...

War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova's first full English-language collection. Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers, and founding editor of Colta.ru, an online independent site which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400047994Author Roger HousdenFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593313343Author T. S. EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137016Author Carl DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago,...

Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names. Edited by the number one bestselling author and poet Lemn Sissay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593468111Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526830Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679429067Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...