Women Authors

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend...

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

*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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982117887Author Elvira SastreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 130mm * 15mm

Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within you, waiting to be discovered after finding more of yourself.Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why, Samantha King Holmes's second solo poetry collection following her bestselling Born to Love, Cursed...

Insofar is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A-Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary or...

Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkAma Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon comes The Carrying-her most powerful collection yet.Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584992Author Franny ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence, and meticulous observation of nature, history, and domestic life. From the subtly evocative...

Reading the Flowers began during Linda France's 2010-11 Leverhulme Residency at Moorbank, Newcastle University's Botanic Garden (now closed). This led to a tour of Botanic Gardens in the UK and abroad. Here nature and culture meet in poems looking at...

The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new...

Samantha King Holmes brings forth a raw, original perspective. A collection of poetry that breathes hope into the idea of love while mourning the human condition of seeking out connections, sometimes with the wrong people. Her verse takes the readers on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912863Author Megan FalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy's art and writingsMina Loy (1882-1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion...

In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of...

New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying,...

The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, heterosexual and white. This anthology of poems and...

In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets,...

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Explorations of a Cosmic Soul. Align your soul and spirit with this beautiful collection of poetry straight from the author's heart. Written by Allie Michelle, this edition includes her author notes that...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once...

"if you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body." Pangaea is a collection of poetry about working through the trauma inflicted on a body, whether the trauma comes from a person, a country, or from within. It is the act of...

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, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894832Author Mona KareemFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692760901Author Carrie NewcomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Available Light PublishingPublisher Available Light PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." -Time From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528553Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

A great and frequently subversive book by a lyric poet at the height of her craft.Throughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, capable of the clarity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375700Author Gloria GervitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

World-Ana Luisa Amaral's second collection with New Directions-offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey wonder, bemusement and an ever-deepening appreciation of life. Weaving the thread that connects the poem to life, World speaks of our...

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...

"Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals," Susan Howe has said. In Concordance, she has created a fresh body of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives. "Since," a semi-autobiographical prose-poem, opens the...

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism,...

Given its imaginative risk and experimental daring, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Annie Freud's poetry is its effortless success: these wise, funny, sly, erotic and lightning-witted poems all find their marks with unerring accuracy. From the...

A revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker famed for her "Reversible Destiny" architecture Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and...

"I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982135607Author HalseyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 15mm