Women Authors

Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics-racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy-showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately, she finds that words...

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. Third Prize winner of the Laurel Prize 2022.What is still wild in us - and is it recoverable? The poems in Wilder, Jemma Borg's second collection, are acts of excavation into the deeper and more elusive aspects...

Brief poems describe nature, mortality, a missing child, the lives of animals, and the beauty of the seasons.Book InformationISBN 9780316650045Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525577157Author Florence WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown ArchetypePublisher Crown ArchetypeWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 178mm...

Even the most integrative, supportive doctor can only do so much for an individual during the worst period of healing from Lyme. The process looks different for everyone, but a patient must feel significantly worse before they begin to recover. When Lyme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911379133Author Hannah Louise PostonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

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 *...

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Roisin is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913432799Author F. Mary CallanFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint Stairwell BooksPublisher Stairwell BooksWeight(grams) 89gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915760074Author Tamiko DooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which...

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,...

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

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...

Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters - half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures - from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera...

Lorraine Mariner has long been one of the less well-guarded secrets in UK poetry, and her many admirers will be delighted by the appearance of her first full-length collection. Sometimes reading like an unholy alliance of Dorothy Parker, Stevie Smith and...

"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 .....

This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem) deals with the women's experience of emigration, displacement and changed identity.Book InformationISBN 9781784108984Author Sasha DugdaleFormat...

'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' ...

With vibrant ribbons of color and joyous words, These Are My Big Girl Pants depicts the complexities and nuances of being a woman in this world.From award-winning artist Amber Vittoria comes These Are My Big Girl Pants, a collection of poetry and artwork...

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

In Elegies Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on death, grief and loss, drawing on work written over four decades, and adds to her...

The Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year 2017Velkom to Inklandt is a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings to life the voice of her German Jewish Grent Muzzer Liesel, whose somewhat abrasive but eminently humane perspektiff she's been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986093838Author Natasha RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The American Poetry ReviewPublisher The American Poetry Review

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527285613Author April GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint April GreenPublisher April GreenWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2020 Music for the Dead and Resurrected captures the complexity of living in the shadows of imperial force, of the vulnerability of bodies, of seeing with more than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912429Author Annelyse GelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the...

In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet scratched with Greek script in the waxen wings of a bouffant bee, and she thinks of the...

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 9781910886045Author Lenifer MambetovaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hertfordshire PressPublisher Silk Road Media

Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2020Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020Shortlisted for John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021Poetry Book of the Month - The Telegraph May 2020Included in Books of the Year 2020...

From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry and quote for a lifetime.Small Cures is at once a compelling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615961835Author Annette Spaulding-ConvyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185872Author Sabrina BenaimFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

From the author of I Find You In the Darkness, a brand-new poetry collection about love, longing, and one woman's everlasting connection to the sea My soul reminds me that I am a Mermaid. A woman who longs to be held by the sea... Beloved...

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...