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Ventriloquise by Ned Denny 9781800173316
RRP: £12.99£8.94And deeper still than this, my eyes penetrate far into the earth as if it was an agate: foundations, dungeons, subterranean cities where thwarted joyance wages its atrocities... (from 'Dusk: An Antique Song') Ned Denny's startling new collection... -
Marie de France: Poetry by Marie De France 9780393932683
£19.77Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, she helped shape the style and genres of later medieval poetry... -
Everything I Don't Know by Jerzy Ficowski 9781954218994
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218994Author Jerzy FicowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books -
Questions About Angels by Billy Collins 9780822956983
RRP: £16.50£10.20Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, ""I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is... -
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber 9780141394701
RRP: £12.99£9.09Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love.For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and... -
Our World by Molly Malone Cook 9780807068809
RRP: £41.00£26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068809Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 244mm * 13mm -
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292864
RRP: £12.99£10.15In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the... -
The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context by Pierre Destree
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which... -
Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo 9781784105549
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metaphor, description, and dance. They tend... -
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich 9780393313987
RRP: £13.50£11.21A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to extend the... -
George Crabbe - The Borough: "to Sigh, Yet Not Recede; To Grieve, Yet Not Repent" by George Crabbe 9781787372924
RRP: £16.24£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787372924Author George CrabbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon
RRP: £10.99£7.32Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives... -
Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Collected Early Books of Bernadette Mayer by Bernadette Mayer 9781581771350
RRP: £34.95£27.78Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print,... -
Ten Poems about Rivers by Ian Duhig 9781907598630
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598630Author Ian DuhigFormat PaperbackImprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: £20.00£14.29Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the characters, the motifs and the moments that set his... -
Being Reflected Upon by Alice Notley 9780143137979
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137979Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver 9781594204777
RRP: £27.00£16.87Apologies 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... -
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral 9780826328199
RRP: £29.95£21.77The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she... -
First Prayers: Standard Edition by Tasha Tudor
£9.50The highly popular First Books series, which brings together favourite prayers, hymns, carols and poetry along with the beautiful illustrations by Brenda Meredith Seymour and Tasha Tudor, has been in print for over thirty years. They will make perfect... -
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane 9780804730990
RRP: £27.99£24.54Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground... -
28 Paradises by Patrick Modiano
RRP: £8.95£6.1828 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple's creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises ... -
A Pocketbook of Wry by B Germain 9781665741248
£8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665741248Author B GermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Future by Neil Hilborn 9781943735310
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735310Author Neil HilbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
The Psalms in Haiku Form: A Simplified Psalter by Richard Gwyn 9780852443538
£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852443538Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm -
Shiner by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £10.99£8.38In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets,... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99£8.56To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign. An all... -
Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393925883
£21.74The texts are extensively glossed and are accompanied by individual introductions and explanatory annotations. A lightly regularized system of spellings has been adopted. No prior knowledge of Chaucer is assumed. "Contexts" connects the poems to their... -
Selected Poems of Fulke Greville by Fulke Greville
RRP: £24.00£23.03Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an... -
Whaddyacall the Wind? by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto 9781599541938
RRP: £20.00£14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541938Author Annie Rachele LanzillottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)... -
Eleven Poems about Football by Conor O'Callaghan 9781907598586
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598586Author Conor O'CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
The Longest Night: A collection of poetry from a life half lived by Ranata Suzuki 9780646987408
RRP: £12.00£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646987408Author Ranata SuzukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ranata SuzukiPublisher Ranata SuzukiWeight(grams) 207g -
King of Britain's Daughter by Gillian Clarke
RRP: £9.99£6.99"The King of Britain's Daughter" has been specially commissioned as the text of an oratorio for the 1993 Hay on Wye Festival, and is based on the story in the Mabinogion of Branwen, the daughter of Llyr. Family legend associated the story with Fforest,... -
Asymmetry: Poems by Adam Zagajewski 9780374538736
RRP: £8.99£8.29Give me back my childhood, republic of loquacious sparrows, measureless thickets of nettles and the timid wood owl's nightly sobs. One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master of the poetic form. In Asymmetry, his... -
Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology by Barbara Hughes Fowler 9780299125349
RRP: £24.95£23.73The main aim of this book is to bring Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. The selection of poems reflects the wide range of poetic genres, styles, themes and moods of the period. It includes the author's translation of the complete... -
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poems by Enzo Siciliano 9780374524692
RRP: £23.00£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524692Author Enzo SicilianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl -
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010 by Rebecca Kosick
RRP: £37.00£34.01Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they... -
Selected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser
RRP: £12.00£8.00The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change and family life. Rukeyser was a social activist... -
The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse by Donald Davie 9780192804860
RRP: £31.49£26.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Night Offices: Prayers for the Hours from Sunset to Sunrise by Phyllis Tickle 9780195306712
RRP: £23.49£17.87Phyllis Tickle's inspirational trilogy The Divine Hours (TM) was the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer--an age-old discipline of saying prayers at certain times of the day. This... -
Woman Killed with Kindness by A. Heywood
RRP: £15.99£15.37The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range...