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WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War...

This seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 1998. It celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names.Inspired and influenced by roots, reggae and hip-hop, this...

***** 'So deeply gripping and inspiring...It will stay with me, always.' - Annie MacmanusIn 2008, 21-year-old Lady Unchained got involved in a fight in a club while trying to protect her sister.Serving 11 months of her prison sentence, her life changed...

From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here attest to humankind's long and joyous (mostly)...

The wittiest and yet most accessible writing in mid-seventeeth-century England, Andrew Marvell's poetry is both passionate and brillant, erotic and comic, cool courtly and seductive. The friend. admirer and supporter of Milton, Marvell was also a very...

'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...

Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. She is co-author with Dorianne Laux of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601081Author John KeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

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,...

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...

"Must-Read Poetry: October 2019" by Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions "Best Books of 2019," Book Riot This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035833184Author Elle RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', 'Comus', a masque, and the pastoral elegy...

From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat...

In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration, passion and married bliss to...

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 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)...

Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the reader with their confessions and pleas. Strikingly,...

"Among America's greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words." -Richard Kostelanetz, New York Times Book Review Every generation of poets seems to harbor its own hidden genius, one whose stature and brilliance...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692139653Author Allen VartanianFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint From Art to AshesPublisher From Art to AshesWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035831333Author Robert LockhartFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, author of Red Clocks'The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work but it reads like an intimate gift' Kaveh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373362Author Vasko PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

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

The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth,...

Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646117970Author Christopher SalernoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027381Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593085660Author Nikita GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than...

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)...

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple...

Shadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374604Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A new collectable edition of Poe's poetry which demonstrates his skilful and imaginative command of the English language. Often regarded as the founder of the modern short story Poe also laid the foundations for the symbolist poets and futurists of the...

Featuring the full contents of Robert Frost's first three volumes of poetry-A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval-this unparalleled collection is a testament to the beauty of the master's writing. It gathers more than 100 of Frost's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756696Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...