Women Authors

Locating Strongwoman is a portrait of unperformed femininity. Eschewing the stereotypical portrayal of the "Strong Woman" and the even more loaded "Strong Black Woman", these poems invite the reader to interrogate the protagonists and find in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957596099Author Ann Marie EleazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams)...

"These are poems with teeth and tenderness and so much knowledge. You'd overlook their sharp, glinting beauty at your peril."-Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye and RUEThis is a book of tragicomic gurlesque word-witchery inspired by the Kate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555598Author Kimberly JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

How to Carry Fire was born from the ashes of family addiction. Beginning with the burning down of her childhood home, Thatcher explores how fire can both destroy and cleanse. Her work recognises embers everywhere: in farmhouses, heroin needles, poisonous...

There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639821419Author Olga SedakovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Slant BooksPublisher Slant Books

Since C.H. Sisson's ground-breaking Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1984), Christina Rossetti's readership has burgeoned. Almost a century ago Ford Madox Ford claimed her as 'the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced', and - as Valentine...

Myfanwy Haycock (1913-1963) mapped out a career as one of Wales's most talented female poets during the mid-twentieth century and was dubbed as 'Gwent's second voice' at the age of nineteen. A skilled illustrator, journalist and broadcaster, Haycock...

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...

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 *...

As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky's The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625579232Author Bettina JuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982247298Author Gianna ShamoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Gianna KirschnerPublisher Gianna KirschnerWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 190mm *...

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...

It doesn't matter how successful you are, or how many times you have dyed your hair purple and walked out onto the stage of a local folk festival holding a notebook and a banjolele. It makes no odds how many pairs of boots you own, or sex you have had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083435Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 455g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Reading the West (Poetry) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679755272Author Sandra CisnerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789163978449Author The Glass ChildFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Broken Glass RecordsPublisher Broken Glass RecordsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood...

Jacqueline Saphra's All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes - as a magician with a...

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down - and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important...

A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair-recasting them as opportunities for growth.In this never-before-published collection, poet Upile Chisala grapples with...

A penetrating and encompassing English-language translation from the celebrated French poet touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and-always-the body.French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932-2019) is known for an uncanny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737204404Author Court YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Carolina Poetry PrintsPublisher Carolina Poetry PrintsWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

By one of Greece's foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi's second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787920552Author Rajwant KaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Paragon PublishingPublisher Paragon PublishingWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

From the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen comes Rooms of the Mind - a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782958856793Author Antonia Alexandra KlimenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Opiate BooksPublisher Opiate BooksWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996760843Author 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 9781556595806Author Traci BrimhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861516763Author Jack BlackmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

How do you feel empowered when depression leaves you powerless? How do you promote self-esteem when your internal critic always shouts the loudest? How do you change the world when you can't get out of bed? In the second collection by the performance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473622848Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Jessica UrlichsPublisher Jessica UrlichsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling's death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: "The poems are funny, irreverent, moving and never sentimental. You can recognise yourself in...

In July 2013, David Thatcher died of a drug overdose in America. More than you were was written by his daughter, to try to understand what came after. The result is a striking collection of poetry which explores addiction, family politics, childhood...

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:...