Shine, Darling
By: Ella Frears
4.19
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Ella Frears’s debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy. They ar…
Want to ReadIf you liked the poetry plot in Shine, Darling by Ella Frears , here is a list of 17 books like this:
1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
Want to Read $ 14.49Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's Ariel book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
3. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ada Limon's Bright Dead Things book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
4. The Love Poems of Rumi
By: Deepak Chopra , Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , None
4.12
Format: 440 pages,
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Deepak Chopra's The Love Poems of Rumi book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
5. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4) book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
6. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Natalie Díaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
7. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
8. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
9. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5) book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
10. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
11. How to Wash a Heart
By: Bhanu Kapil
4.15
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Bhanu Kapil's extraordinary and original work been published in the U.S. over the last two decades … read more
Want to Read $ 13.53Similar categories in Bhanu Kapil's How to Wash a Heart book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"Because living with someone who is in pain Requires you to move in a different way."-Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
12. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
13. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
14. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
15. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
16. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
17. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lynne Tillman's Weird Fucks book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
18. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
19. Flèche
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.23
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mary Jean Chan's Flèche book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
20. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
21. Kingdomland
By: Rachael Allen
3.69
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and flair. Th… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rachael Allen's Kingdomland book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
22. Soho
By: Richard Scott
4.09
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Richard Scott's Soho book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
Similar categories in Gboyega Odubanjo's Adam book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
24. My Darling from the Lions
By: Rachel Long
3.78
Format: None pages, None
Described as a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences … read more
Want to Read $ 9.75Similar categories in Rachel Long's My Darling from the Lions book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
25. She's Always Hungry: Stories
By: Eliza Clark
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry: Stories book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
26. Shine, Darling
By: Ella Frears
4.19
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Ella Frears’s debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy. They ar… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ella Frears's Shine, Darling book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
27. Forest of Noise: Poems
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.73
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winn… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Forest of Noise: Poems book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
28. Limbic
By: Peter Scalpello
4.02
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Limbic is Peter Scalpello’s glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slip… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Peter Scalpello's Limbic book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
29. Where the Road Runs Out
By: Gaia Holmes
4.17
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Gaia Holmes third collection of poetry transports us to the edge of things: to remote, treeless isl… read more
Want to Read $ 7.00Similar categories in Gaia Holmes's Where the Road Runs Out book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
30. Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry)
By: Hannah Copley
4.70
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Migrating across voices and blurring the divide between bird and human, self and other, Hannah Copl… read more
Want to Read $ 13.80Similar categories in Hannah Copley's Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry) book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
31. Platinum Blonde
By: Phoebe Stuckes
4.33
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Platinum Blonde is Phoebe Stuckes’ debut collection. Whether wildly or wryly funny, each poem prese… read more
Want to Read $ 12.20Similar categories in Phoebe Stuckes's Platinum Blonde book and Ella Frears's Shine, Darling
- poetry
