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Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048692Author Canisia LubrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595882Author Natalie ShaperoFormat PaperbackImprint 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.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. Nominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375755194Author Billy CollinsFormat...

As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin. In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have...

Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the short...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it...

Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the...

A debut collection exploring the experience of first love and heartbreak through poetry, from actress and artist Bella Mayo.My Greenhouse is a collection of poems inspired by the author's first romance, beginning with the seeds of infatuation, blooming...

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...

A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their...

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical...

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 9780143136897Author Zeina Hashem BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909874510Author Francesca TheodorouFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425g

Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony. In this bilingual collection of...

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 9781619027381Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692146699Author Laura WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Laura WeaverPublisher Laura WeaverWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

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 *...

Penguin's landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992924713Author Herbert Edward ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Orage PressPublisher Orage PressWeight(grams) 503g

Debut book of poetry from musician Elias B. Ronnenfelt Presented in both the original Danish text and Ronnenfelt's own English translation, Sunken Heights balances the poet's reflections on the aggressive and primal present with strikingly romantic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609800980Author Susan G. WooldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999825805Author Tina Abena OforiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Tout Noir PressPublisher Tout Noir PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398461376Author Anila MirzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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)...

"A necessary reminder that whatever we are feeling, we are never feeling it alone." -Trista Mateer, author of Aphrodite Made Me Do It"There are defining moments in our lives that we often experience in certain places. It's in these places, that we feel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781556595592Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher...

Confessions of Her is a tale of survival depicting how one young woman found love in herself, rather than searching for it in the arms of another. This autobiographical collection of poetry and prose takes the reader on a journey of love and loss,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936769032Author Edmond BruneauFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Boston Publishing CompanyPublisher Boston Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

As schools grow more and more vulnerable to the whims of profiteers and, as a result, become less and less a sacred public space of learning and justice, the voices of everyday educators and students are increasingly marginalized. This is the tyranny of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936769094Author Edmond BruneauFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Boston Publishing CompanyPublisher Boston Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949342451Author John-Francis QuinonezFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

As schools grow more and more vulnerable to the whims of profiteers and, as a result, become less and less a sacred public space of learning and justice, the voices of everyday educators and students are increasingly marginalized. This is the tyranny of...