Women Authors

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,...

This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.Book InformationISBN 9781784109677Author Kate MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078905Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Just as the moonflower dares to stand and blossom, growing bright and free in the shadows of the night, may these gentle pages inspire you to bloom, bursting with poetry, in the most unexpected of moments.From celebrated Australian artist Tess Guinery...

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,...

Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680322Author Alexis SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 140g

'Wry, sharp-eyed and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.' The Telegraph'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken'. - Michael Hofmann, LRB The Canadian Karen Solie is rapidly...

The Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material. Organized in four sections - Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany - K.Y...

Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris."You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me-and very objectively too-the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that's you."-Andre Breton Joyce Mansour,...

'Ruminative and enigmatic . . . powerful' Simon Armitage'Tenderly inquisitive . . . a powerful poetry of witness . . . full of discovery' Alycia Pirmohamed'Majella Kelly offers so much: ecstatic lyricism . . . emotional excavation and virtuosic skill' ...

A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally...

This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.About the AuthorMoya Cannon is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957776Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375504068Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595608Author Monica SokFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

"These sentences-they-will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladman's latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying...

Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize-now in one collectible volume "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595240Author Rachel McKibbensFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint 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.Book InformationISBN 9781739133627Author Mandy WhymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Lavender Button BooksPublisher Lavender Button BooksWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)...

When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473622855Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Jessica UrlichsPublisher Jessica UrlichsWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778308461Author Bunmi LaditanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 155mm * 15mm

The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy's third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar - but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004674Author Eva H.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

A revered classic of 1970s New York conceptualism, Bernadette Mayer's Memory synthesizes writing and photography in this prescient "emotional science project" A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501196812Author Madisen KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

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...

Funeral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art."Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling of live performance. . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593466353Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915796202Author Jennifer Rose WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Maple PublishersPublisher Maple PublishersWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2023. Stav Poleg's poems are about cities, what they contain and what they lack; and all cities are habitable and analogous, The City: London, New York, London, New York, Rome. 'Think...

Situated where salt and freshwater meet, where floods and fields ‘mingle parts’, Emily Hasler’s second collection exposes the dailiness of disaster to chart the constantly shifting courses of rivers and lives. Taking its name from the sections of...

2022 High Plains Book Award Winner in Poetry Marjorie Saiser's strong, clear language makes the reader feel at home in her poems. Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, this collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really...

All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making,...

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala'ika's Arabic poetry. One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the...

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 *...

"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...

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...