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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...

**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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595134Author W S MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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...

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 9789916756713Author Hanna HelimetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Book Fairy PublishingPublisher Book Fairy PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780143133186Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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...

Take comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger McGough's new book of poems shows him writing as fluently and inventively as ever. There...

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)...

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 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783350Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780375761232Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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...

**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...

"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

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 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm...

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...