Women Authors

Colette Bryce's The Heel of Bernadette was one of the most highly praised new collections of recent years, winning both the Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection, and the Strong Award for best new Irish poet. Her second, The Full Indian Rope Trick -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377308Author Zuzanna GinczankaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681884Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721162Author Kathryn SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939574183Author Chelsea WoodardFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Measure Press Inc.Publisher Measure Press Inc.Weight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel-Child, an `exceptional volume ... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright)...

'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern...

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780374604103Author Louise GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher...

An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a special foreword by Lang Leav and highly personal annotations interspersed throughout. Also included are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994623720Author Becca LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Becca LeePublisher Becca LeeWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America had only two great wonders to show the world:...

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.

In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant and revisits kitschy concepts like 'love' and 'illness', now...

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen. They move with and within the beautiful...

The White Wampum (1895) is the debut poetry collection of E. Pauline Johnson. Originally published in London, The White Wampum launched her career as one of Canada's most distinguished artists. Revered as one the foremost indigenous poets of her time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781594204777Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996760843Author MS Anita B HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Actor's Mind Professional DevelopmentPublisher Actor's Mind Professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541938Author Annie Rachele LanzillottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)...

Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic, proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way across narratives of genders, and addresses the brutality of social conventions with caustic humor. This labyrinthine text...

Based on the rider-waite-smith tarot cards, this book dives into the world of tarot through delicate and illuminating poetry that stirs the soul.Inside this book, you will find 78 poems, one for each card in the Major and Minor Arcana-all a poetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535612Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735242Author Melissa Lozada-OlivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the...

A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult lifeAs in life, she was a pain in the arsein death. He could hear her roaringall the way from the fifth circle,'Why the hell do you get to be in abetter circle than me, I'm...

An anthem for the modern woman, Unfollowing You will serve as a true companion for those who seek a voice that explores the complexities and hilarity of contemporary romance. Komal Kapoor uses her personal experience and astute social awareness as...

Winner of the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021. A Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year 2021. Martina Evans's eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692679364Author Kashmir MaryamFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Kashmir MaryamPublisher Kashmir MaryamWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Written for anyone who has known the touch of a cold nose on their hand, the bark of a best friend, or the joy of a walk accompanied by a wagging tail, All Dogs Are Good pays tribute to the special bond we share with our canine companions.Filled with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436255Author Natalie ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012956Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723210Author Caroline SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723210Author Caroline SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 113g

Winner of the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections 2021. Slip-ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340003Author Rachel WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022. Shortlisted for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Second Collections 2023. 'Have you looked / have you looked deeply?' ask these poems, rooted in the human body and its movement through an interconnected living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101911204Author Robin Coste LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135395Author Joanna KlinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc