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W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
RRP: £6.99£5.00'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.'W B Yeats was one of the foremost... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9780140187595
RRP: £18.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187595Author Marina TsvetaevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Collected Poems - Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice 9781930630635
RRP: £23.95£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630635Author Louis MacNeiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 876Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)... -
Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about the art and lives of Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline Spencer by Graham Burchell 9781909747593
RRP: £9.99£7.11Two Girls and a Beehive offers a minutely observed exploration in poetry of the life and work of Stanley Spencer and his two wives, Hilda Carline and Patricia Preece, engaging readers with the particular unease that must trouble any follower of Spencer's... -
Robert Lowell Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: £55.00£37.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530327Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 1216Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain: 2021 by Garry MacKenzie
RRP: £16.99£14.12Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain draws on the work of an eighteenth-century Gaelic poem by Duncan Ba n MacIntyre, rendering it into English.Where it does so, this is not to present MacIntyre's poetry per se to an English-language reader, as is... -
Malkin: Poems About the Pendle Witch Trials by Camille Ralphs 9781910139301
RRP: £5.00£4.08Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the reader with their confessions and pleas. Strikingly,... -
The Long Beds by Kate Miller 9781784109677
RRP: £10.99£7.64This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.Book InformationISBN 9781784109677Author Kate MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher... -
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson 9781400078905
RRP: £17.00£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078905Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Striking a Match in a Storm: Collected Poems by Andrew McNeillie 9781800172333
RRP: £18.99£13.39The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems - including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000). McNeillie's poems... -
Water Look Away: A Novella by Bob Hicok
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596506Author Bob HicokFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library by Chris McCabe 9781473693005
RRP: £12.99£8.60Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century... -
Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £10.99£7.32Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous,... -
Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems by Stephen Romer
RRP: £12.99£8.94Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina... -
The Lost Chronicle: 2004-2009 by Polarbear
RRP: £14.99£10.95Polarbear is one of the most influential poets of his generation. The work collected here is the work that made his name. These poems have racked up hundreds of thousands of views online, lodging themselves in the hearts and minds of readers and... -
The White Rose by Dorothee Soelle 9780819560865
RRP: £14.95£12.75The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party. They named their group the White Rose,... -
Greek Anthology: v. 3 by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£23.39A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
Tristia (1922) by Osip Mandelstam 9781910345931
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910345931Author Osip MandelstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Arc PublicationsPublisher Arc Publications -
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs by Christopher Reid
RRP: £14.99£9.80I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of... -
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
RRP: £19.00£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595110Author Javier ZamoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
A Million Brilliant Poems: A Collection of the Very Best Children's Poetry Today: Pt. 1 by Roger Stevens
RRP: £6.99£5.13The best collection of contemporary children's poems ever! Every anthology has one or two poems that seem to shout out: 'Hey! I'm the best. Read me again. Learn me by heart. Love me.' So here, for the first time, are all of those poems collected together... -
Liffey Swim by Jessica Traynor 9781906614973
RRP: £9.50£6.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614973Author Jessica TraynorFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 114g -
The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI by Evan Mantyk 9781949398786
£34.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949398786Author Evan MantykFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Society of Classical Poets, Inc.Publisher Society of Classical Poets, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Bone Rosary: New & Selected Poems by Thomas Lynch
RRP: £14.99£9.80America's much celebrated poet-undertaker Thomas Lynch is renowned for his thought-provoking poems on life, faith, doubt and death. This new retrospective shows the passage of his work over time, 'a pilgrimage of sorts through growing old and facing... -
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse by Emrys Jones 9780199561339
RRP: £26.49£21.53The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and... -
Poems by William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: £12.00£8.44Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in... -
Fire Songs by David Harsent
RRP: £10.99£7.32Winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry'A writer we should treasure.' Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph'With every book [Harsent's] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable.' Fiona Sampson, IndependentThe poems in David... -
Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez 9780807068533
RRP: £15.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068533Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm -
The Moral Judgement of Butterflies by K. Eltinae 9781913606879
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606879Author K. EltinaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 162gDimensions(mm) 225mm *... -
Universal Tree and the Four Birds by Muhyiddin Ibn'Arabi
RRP: £25.95£9.93Through the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn 'Arabi explains his teaching on the nature and meaning of union with God. Providing an excellent... -
Aeneid: Bks. 7-12: WITH Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil
RRP: £24.95£24.54"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life... -
Rest in the Mourning by R. H. Sin 9781449486730
RRP: £9.99£6.41From best-selling poet, r.h. Sin, comes an expanded hardcover keepsake edition of his original chapbook, Rest in the Mourning. The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion... -
Unexpectedly Eighty: And Other Adaptations by Judith Viorst 9781439190296
RRP: £18.99£11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190296Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 160mm... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics) by Jessie Weston 9780008485535
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by... -
Untitled by W.D. Jackson 9781912524112
RRP: £15.00£13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524112Author W.D. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressDimensions(mm) 236mm * 175mm * 35mm -
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman 9781574232370
RRP: £25.95£15.53A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,... -
The Complete Poems by John Milton
RRP: £20.00£14.69John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', 'Comus', a masque, and the pastoral elegy... -
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac 9780872860643
RRP: £7.99£5.50Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS... -
Rome by Glyn Pursglove 9781906011222
RRP: £6.99£5.00All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist, the seat of the only Empire that has ever succeeded in uniting the European landmass. No literate traveller can escape its fascination, and... -
A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr
RRP: £12.99£11.46This primer guides young poets towards a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their lives, while introducing the art in an exciting new way. It provides writing exercises and explains topics such as the personal and cultural threshold, the...