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War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue 9780571314492
RRP: £16.99£11.58For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer's Iliad. The volumes that appeared from War... -
The Iron Wolf: Collected Animal Poems Vol 1 by Ted Hughes
RRP: £10.00£6.71The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur.The rusty Moon rolls through the sky.The iron river cannot stir.The iron wind leaks out a cryAnimals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young... -
A Poem for Every Autumn Day by Allie Esiri
RRP: £16.99£11.08Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Autumn Day you will find verse that will transport you to vibrant autumnal scenes, from harvest festival to Remembrance Day.The poems are selected from Allie Esiri's... -
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9781853264023
RRP: £4.99£3.86With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power... -
Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa 9780822965213
RRP: £15.00£12.70The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape... -
Selected Poems by Lars Gustafsson
RRP: £12.00£8.00Poet, novelist, and philosopher Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016) was one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness and the relationship between personal experience and self-awareness, imbued... -
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana McLaughlin
RRP: £14.99£9.26Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate... -
Soundings by Augustine Martin 9780717148417
RRP: £18.99£13.61Soundings was first published in 1969. It was intended as an 'interim' anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime it had passed... -
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
RRP: £12.99£8.94Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024. Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize 2024. The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2023. A... -
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology by Tim Kendall
RRP: £8.99£6.45'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the... -
Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture... -
Aednan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson 9781805331315
RRP: £20.00£13.46In Northern Sami, the word AEdnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sami families, telling of their struggle and persistence over a century of colonial... -
Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire by MacGillivray 9781780376776
RRP: £14.99£9.80Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire draws together MacGillivray's extensive research into the life and work of Norwegian-Shetlandic poet Kristjan Norge, who vanished from Eilean a' Bhais in the Outer Hebrides in 1961. Comprising two previously unpublished... -
Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles: A Gardener's Bedside Book - the perfect Mother's Day gift by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Charming miscellany of rhymes and reflections celebrating the garden'CHOICE***The perfect bedside book for the green-fingered - hilarious and touching poems on a gardening theme written and introduced by the nation's favourite gardener and presenter of... -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake 9781854377296
RRP: £9.99£6.41A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and Experience also occupies a key position... -
Selected Poems of Lord Byron: Including Don Juan and Other Poems by Lord Byron 9781853264061
RRP: £4.99£2.91With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen. 'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures... -
Black Country by Liz Berry
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014*PBS Recommendation 2014*'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...'In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: £12.99£9.49A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically... -
Poems of the Great War: An Anthology 1914-1918 by Christopher Navratil
RRP: £5.99£5.59This collection featuring nearly 50 memorable poems from some of the best writers of the time: Rupert Brooke, Siegried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Ivan Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edward Thomas, and many more. Vividly expressing the ravages of... -
The Mersey Sound: Restored 50th Anniversary Edition by Adrian Henri
RRP: £9.99£7.11'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with its irreverent, wry, freewheeling verses of young... -
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99£9.59Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose TremainThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our... -
Being Me: Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings by Liz Brownlee
RRP: £8.99£5.82Read about the Land of Blue, where it's OK to feel sad, find ideas for what to do with worries or how to slow down when your head is full of hurry. Give yourself time to chill out, find quiet voices in noisy places and discover kindness in yourself and... -
The Sonnets: A Dual-Language Edition With Parallel Text by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £15.92£12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143106012Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Tyger, Tyger by William Blake
RRP: £3.00£2.49'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?'A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first... -
The Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake 9781853264528
RRP: £4.99£3.46Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted... -
Come on Everybody by Adrian Mitchell
RRP: £25.00£16.78Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to his final collection, Tell Me Lies (2008). His poetry's simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a... -
The Canterbury Tales: Fully Annotated Edition by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £7.99£5.79Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to... -
The Dark Between Stars by Atticus Poetry
RRP: £16.99£11.94Now a New York Times bestsellerFrom the internationally bestselling author of LOVE HER WILD comes THE DARK BETWEEN STARS, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.Atticus has... -
I'll Fly Away by Rudy Francisco
RRP: £16.00£11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735693Author Rudy FranciscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *... -
Paradise by Dante Alighieri 9781847496478
RRP: £8.99£6.45In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in... -
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that... -
Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere 9780571380985
RRP: £12.99£8.18Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting 'found' content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case,... -
Orlam by Polly Jean Harvey
RRP: £16.99£11.87Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals,... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke
RRP: £8.99£6.45At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely... -
Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics by Simon Armitage 9780571377619
RRP: £14.99£9.80In Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises - most recently with the 'ambient post-rock' band Land Yacht Regatta... -
Please Love Me at My Worst by Michaela Angemeer
RRP: £11.99£7.59Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the worst parts of yourself, coming out as bisexual, and focusing on self-growth in this highly anticipated poetry collection.Please Love Me at My Worst is a... -
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9781423650980
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423650980Author Emily DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
Peacemakers, The by Waldo Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912631414Author Waldo WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 18mm -
Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: £8.99£6.45From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets.This volume includes extensive... -
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £20.00£13.86Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from...