Women Authors

An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527246324Author Ruby DhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Ruby DhalPublisher Ruby DhalDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972496Author St. TeresaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

On a frosty winter evening, the Baron watches the snow fall. He is bored and worried. It will soon be Christmas and everything is too quiet. What can he do to bring excitement to the Manor?His wife, the Baroness, has an idea: he can appoint a King of...

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020. An Irish Times Book of the Year 2020. A forceful and moving final volume from...

Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV screens and too-bright calorie counters, Bolger's poems explore growing up, differing bodies and societal expectations. Writing in praise of mums, nans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735204Author Sabrina BenaimFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375504068Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the...

The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016.Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of...

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 beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment.Shortlisted for Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021 A Guardian most anticipated book for...

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author amanda lovelace presents the women are some kind of magic boxed set - a beautiful and empowering trilogy guaranteed to awaken your inner goddess. All three volumes of the women are some...

The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527216754Author April GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint April GreenPublisher April GreenWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473622855Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Jessica UrlichsPublisher Jessica UrlichsWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An intimate collection of modern prose, poems, and quotes about surviving dark times. It's about telling your story...A resilient journey through a season of loneliness, as cycle of heartache, and a year of depression-this is what she unexpectedly found...

Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies. 'Green noise' is the mid-frequency component of white...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473680565Author Lucy GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Poetry Chapel PressPublisher Poetry Chapel PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997035698Author Ann Marie EleazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint 300 South Media GroupPublisher 300 South Media GroupWeight(grams) 327g

In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her...

Following the success of Catarine's shades of lovers, sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a look into the process of recovering after a particularly bad love.sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a collection of poetry on the feeling of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068816Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 235mm * 8mm

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity.Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528717908Author Alice Dunbar NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Ragged HandPublisher Ragged HandWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062015273Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

'The work of a genuine original ... surreal ... funny ... subversive' Sunday TimesWhat if a deer did porn? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? And what would Walt Whitman's tit-pics really look like?Free-wheeling and surreal yet deadly serious,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726969Author Nerys WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 12mm

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours? For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel...

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913268275Author Molly NaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Bad Betty PressPublisher Bad Betty PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631226Author Ursula Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 193g

"life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline."amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents unlock your storybook heart, the third & final installment in her feminist...

All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524890292Author Jessie ReyezFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams) 116g

In her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban - and her place within it. In the author's own words: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638341185Author L E BowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 15mm

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and...