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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 9780807007358Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of ancient women...

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...

In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VII, Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.Book InformationISBN 9781784109899Author Katherine HorrexFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780307962034Author Lucie Brock-BroidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639806140Author Vanessa NapolitanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Kelsay BooksPublisher Kelsay BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These poems span the worlds of desire, love and friendship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867632Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 79Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249g

Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry "Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi...

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...

"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...

In Toxicon & Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeney's daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick,...

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...

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 *...

Rebecca Hurst's first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The book's places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959012Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555277Author Sarah MatthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

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...

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...

Laurie Bolger's debut collection Box Rooms shows that poetry can be your friend. With extraordinary warmth, the poems build into a conversation of friendship, communities, vegetables, pubs, tea, love and the meanings we find in these and in each other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048692Author Canisia LubrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

In this intimate collection of poetry, spells are cast, hearts are broken, and prayers go unanswered. Sad Sexy Catholic follows the journey of a young twenty-something as she navigates the already difficult task of existing made even harder by trauma,...

"we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings." Ulrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable...

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...

Based on the national bestseller Keep Moving-called "a meditation on kindness and hope" (NPR)-a 52-exercise journal about hope and renewal from the award-winning poet and author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful. As Maggie Smith navigated loss and...

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry.Written from the heart, When Angels...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646951867Author Lauren EdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Radiant Sky Publishing GroupPublisher Radiant Sky Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947851368Author F AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640600850Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 164g

What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of...

In this astounding debut, Solmaz Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. These poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this book are words and phrases lifted from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912551255Author Indi WritesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Conscious Dreams PublishingPublisher Conscious Dreams PublishingWeight(grams)...

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 9780578451169Author N R HartFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Monday Creek PublishingPublisher Monday Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994635211Author Chloe FrayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Chloe FraynePublisher Chloe FrayneWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777351618Author Vironika WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint New Rage Poetry PressPublisher New Rage Poetry PressWeight(grams) 263g

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

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...