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These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem - 'From the very limit of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375526Author Najwan DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riach’s poems...

A native of the Bay Area, Ross J. Farrar is an internationally renowned singer, songwriter, and lyricist for the post-punk band, Ceremony. In his debut book of poetry, Farrar conjures a narrative voice that evokes Alan Vega of the band Suicide and other...

'Jam is for Girls' is Shagufta K's fiercely honest debut collection. Her work lays witness to the immigrant experience and gives voice to the women who made journeys into unknown lands through the eyes of their daughters. This is not a collection that...

Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476779324Author Saul WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MTV BooksPublisher MTV BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 13mm

One of Moldova's most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Pa un's style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Paun's work to Anglophone readers, is...

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the...

A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele MsimangContemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960045034Author R CliftFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Rachel CliftPublisher Rachel CliftWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .__________________________________________________Flitting from the...

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage...

'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet:'I am going to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029422Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913499631Author Ellie ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Hedgehog Poetry PressPublisher Hedgehog Poetry PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

These poems come from a variety of residencies and random thoughts over the past few years; from the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run, from a Cheshire mill and a Muslim girl's school in Bradford. From a homeless project, a newspaper column,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959118138Author Giada NizzoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Querencia Press, LLCPublisher Querencia Press, LLCWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534644Author Gabrielle BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl...

Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780143137139Author Rio CortezFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948461849Author Zeina AzzamFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Poetry BoxPublisher Poetry BoxWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909362697Author Ailsa HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Kingston University Press LtdPublisher Kingston University Press LtdWeight(grams)...

Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957007250Author Darrell EppFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint QuoirPublisher QuoirWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942528142Author Norman P La VineFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Robbin La VinePublisher Robbin La VineWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In her latest book, New Life, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozicevic writes, "For my birthday I want a cake/revealing the color of my soul." Never saccharine, these poems are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all-surprising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528716383Author William WordsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In Michael Earl Craig's sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the "Italy of God,"...

"Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I loved her work then and now."--Eileen Myles Thirty-five years' worth of poems by Susie Timmons, a poet beloved by her peers, previously only available in small-run editions. Her poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389255Author Nick MaioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love. In small-town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child "assigned 'woman'"...

Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials-and are all anonymous from end to end,...

Typography meets poetry at a Pink Floyd laser-light show In Surface Tension, poetry is liquefied. Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and pool into puddles of poetry; street signs and logos reflected in the oily sheen of polluted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994807274Author Silke SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Beach Urchin BooksPublisher Beach Urchin BooksWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780395825266Author William MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Houghton Mifflin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838033231Author Demi AnterFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Write Bloody Publishing UK SrPublisher Write Bloody Publishing UK SrWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988732183Author David MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 170g