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What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland
RRP: £9.99£6.99Rosie Garland's dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the "distance between things that stand like sisters". We venture... -
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs by Christopher Reid 9780571334100
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... -
Writing Motherhood: A Creative Anthology by Carolyn Jess-Cooke 9781781723760
RRP: £12.99£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723760Author Carolyn Jess-CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Collected Poems by Ruth Pitter 9781870612142
RRP: £10.95£7.75This new volume gathers together the finest of Ruth Pitter's poems, which in Kathleen Raine's judgement 'will survive as long as the English language, with whose expressiveness in image and idea she has kept faith, remains'. In the introduction Elizabeth... -
Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Mary Miers 9781906011291
RRP: £6.99£4.75There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. From its bleak mountains to its flower-filled meadows, from savage sea-cliffs to pure white... -
Love is the Beauty of the Soul by Stephen Dixon 9781848979901
£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848979901Author Stephen DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
The Moons of August by Danusha Lameris
RRP: £17.95£12.59Winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. This stunning debut collection explores family culture, motherhood, and memory.Book InformationISBN 9781932870954Author Danusha LamerisFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Beyond the Drift: New & Selected Poems by David Scott
RRP: £14.99£9.80'David Scott belongs firmly to the long tradition of parson-poets that goes back at least as far as George Herbert... For all their reticence, there is a compassion in these poems and a sense of propriety' - Norman Nicholson. Springing from ordinary... -
The Girl Aquarium by Jen Campbell
RRP: £10.99£7.40Jen Campbell's first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty. Weaving between whispered science and circus, she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to... -
Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nazim Hikmet 9780892552740
RRP: £15.99£13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892552740Author Nazim HikmetFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 339gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Telling by Julia Webb 9781913437367
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely-observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships - an insistent, quietly fierce tour de force from this Forward Prize commended poet. Moving and dark, we... -
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
RRP: £14.00£10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912658Author Clint SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley by Fran Brearton 9780199261383
RRP: £53.00£52.66The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley... -
Storms Will Tell by Janet Frame
RRP: £12.00£8.00Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An Angel at My Table". Janet Frame called poetry 'the... -
M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780822370840
RRP: £19.99£16.15Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive-the second book in a planned experimental triptych-is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm... -
Lark Water by Lorna Shaughnessy
RRP: £11.00£7.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561292Author Lorna ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 7mm -
Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition by David Ferry
£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530310Author David FerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Lord Alfred Tennyson
RRP: £6.99£5.00Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the... -
Rogue Teacher by Mark Grist
£12.64Rogue Teacher is the debut poetry collection from hugely popular Spoken Word artist Mark Grist. It contains his most popular performance pieces including work from his live shows - Dead Poetry and Rogue Teacher, as well as material from his new Spoken... -
808s and Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies by Sean Avery Medlin 9781911585886
RRP: £9.99£6.80Through storytelling rhymes and vulnerable narratives in conversation with both contemporary Hip-Hop culture and systemic anti-Blackness, 808s & Otherworlds pieces together a speculative reality where Blackfolk are simultaneously superhuman and... -
That Awkward Age by Roger McGough
RRP: £12.99£9.09From laundrettes to contact lenses, Paul McCartney's trousers to plane crashes, McGough guides us through the pitfalls and idiosyncrasies of our illogical and unexciting lives, and finds the humour and drama hidden within. This new collection has a bonus... -
The Divine Comedy: III. Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £18.49£14.37An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... -
Poetry of Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780374532710
RRP: £26.00£17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532710Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Fly on the Wheel by Katherine Cecil Thurston 9781919642130
RRP: £18.99£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919642130Author Katherine Cecil ThurstonFormat HardbackImprint Manderley Press LtdPublisher Manderley Press LtdWeight(grams) 129g -
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
RRP: £10.99£7.93Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly... -
Numbers by Kieron Barry 9780573702563
£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702563Author Kieron BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
100 Favourite Scottish Poems to Read Out Loud by Gordon Jarvie 9781906307011
RRP: £7.99£5.94Encouraged by Burns Nights, ceilidhs and poetry slams, reading poetry aloud is a valued Scottish tradition enjoyed by young and old alike. This anthology includes old favourites like Burns and Matt McGinn and new classics from contemporary Scottish... -
Transformatrix by Patience Agbabi
RRP: £9.99£6.70'They call me Jax, though my real name's EvaThe whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious divaNo.1 on the guest list, top of the chartsWhen I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins parts...'From Hamburg to Jo'burg, Oslo to Soho, Patience... -
The Ancient Mariner by David Jones 9781904634140
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634140Author David JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon Press -
POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY (3-Book Box Set) by Dimitris Lyacos 9781912524013
RRP: £19.95£17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524013Author Dimitris LyacosFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
Postcards from god by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: £12.99£8.60An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are... -
Bear by Chrissy Williams
RRP: £9.95£6.78The lively 'bears' in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality, and you'll be transported from the British... -
All's Well That Ends Well: Through Lent with Shakespeare by Peter Graystone 9781786223548
£13.63Few writers have a deeper understanding of the foibles of human nature and life's absurdities and tragedies than William Shakespeare. This makes him a fascinating companion for the season of Lent, a traditional time for a spot of self-examination. This... -
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation by Roger Housden 9781400047994
RRP: £21.00£13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400047994Author Roger HousdenFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318g -
Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines: Astride Auden's Watershed by Judith Milton 9781399952767
RRP: £16.99£12.28An informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines. Uniquely, the theme and structure are both guided by the "Pennine Poems" of the late W.H.Auden. Chapters on geology, technology, the environmental legacy of mining, social... -
Picturehouse Poems: Poems About the Movies by Harold Schechter
RRP: £10.99£7.77The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth,... -
Dogtooth by Fran Lock 9780993103841
RRP: £8.00£5.70Dogtooth is a book about ghosts. Not in the undead sense, but more as in the spectres and echoes of absent friends. It looks at the discomforts, paranoias and phobias that haunt a very particular cultural moment.It's a book about fear, about a background... -
Can’t Believe I’m Saying This to My Mum: Mark Wheeller Contemporary Duologues by Mark Wheeller
RRP: £11.99£8.00A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances. It includes duologues from: ... -
The Secret Traditions Of The Shinobi by Antony Cummins
RRP: £16.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583944356Author Antony CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)... -
The Examined Life by James Harpur 9781909747876
RRP: £9.99£6.99James Harpur entered a boy's boarding school in the 1970s and survived to tell the tale. His sequence of poems is a searingly honest and compelling account of his five-year journey, from leaving home for the first time and sleeping in a dormitory in...