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The Illustrated Mahabharata: The Definitive Guide to India's Greatest Epic by DK
RRP: £35.00£26.69Take a fresh look at India's great epic and rediscover the lost kingdoms, dynasties, and characters of the Mahabharata, accompanied by beautiful images and discussion points. Often described as the longest poem ever written, the Mahabharata is one of two... -
Poetry Please: The Seasons by Various Poets
RRP: £10.99£7.32This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of... -
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth 9780140424423
RRP: £8.99£6.45One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life,... -
Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry - Includes Tanka, Renga, Haiga, Senryu and Haibun by Bruce Ross
RRP: £12.99£8.60A world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace-and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE Sociology Student Book Revised Edition by Steve Tivey 9781913963378
£32.59The WJEC Eduqas GCSE Sociology Student Book has been revised and updated to reflect the latest social changes and is endorsed by WJEC Eduqas. With new real-life examples and updated statistics, along with revised coverage of exam components, this... -
Ninety-Nine Names of the Beloved: Intimations of the Beauty and Power of the Divine by Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski 9780998125824
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998125824Author Camille Hamilton Adams HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Sweet Lady PressPublisher Sweet Lady PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Feather, Leaf, Bark and Stone by Jackie Morris
RRP: £20.00£13.03Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorious... -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Gray
RRP: £16.99£13.29'The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...' Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of friends, it was rushed to official publication in 1751 in... -
Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author by Sophus Helle 9780300276763
RRP: £14.99£13.03The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian “Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives... -
Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections by Corinne Fowler
RRP: £19.99£14.04Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the... -
playtime by Andrew McMillan
RRP: £12.00£8.44**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019**'Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so' Alan Bennett, London Review of BooksIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to... -
Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod 9780872201798
RRP: £12.99£11.78"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its... -
And So This is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems by Brian Bilston 9781035031467
RRP: £12.99£8.78It's that time of year again . . .With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty-one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to the office Christmas party; from voting day for turkeys... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £12.99£9.09Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their... -
A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse by William Shakespeare
RRP: £10.99£7.32For this new edition, first published in 1971, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to restore to the common reader much of what, in Shakespeare,... -
the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace
RRP: £11.99£7.59Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third and final installment in her "women are some kind of magic" series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780141394633
RRP: £18.99£14.01Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise... -
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
RRP: £10.99£7.00As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Kathleen Jamie's Selected Poems gathers together some of the finest work by one of the foremost poets currently writing in English. Although Jamie is perhaps best known for her writing on nature, landscape, and place, Selected Poems shows the full and... -
The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney 9780571341085
RRP: £40.00£27.68'A marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and the poet's insuppressible joie de vivre, even in adversity. Buy it, read it, and keep it to hand on to your... -
Staying Alive by Neil Astley
RRP: £12.99£9.00Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations... -
Soft Sift by Mark Ford
RRP: £8.99£6.08Soft Sift is Mark Ford's first collection since the widely praised Landlocked was published in 1992. Barbara Everett has remarked of his recent work: 'Mark Ford's poems are so cool that it's mystifying they aren't cold. But they aren't: they are... -
Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (loa #357) by Gary Snyder
RRP: £42.99£28.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537215Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 1000Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
The Poetry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9780241566237
RRP: £19.99£14.35The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.Discover poems in all their many guises, from the epics of the ancient world through Renaissance sonnets to... -
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
RRP: £7.99£5.79"There was an Old Derry down Derry, Who loved to see little folks merry; So he made them a Book, And with laughter they shook At the fun of that Derry down Derry." First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of... -
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection... -
Prema Mala: A Garland of Poems, Prayers and Meditations on Love by Acyuta Gopi 9781718749641
RRP: £11.11£8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718749641Author Acyuta GopiFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Night Sky Things to Spot by Sam Smith 9781801318235
RRP: £3.99£2.64This beautifully illustrated little book will help children spot key star patterns, clusters, galaxies, nebulae, planets and more night-sky sights that are visible at different times of year in the Northern Hemisphere. There's also a chart and stickers... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: £12.00£8.44A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their... -
Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong by John O'Donohue
RRP: £10.99£7.77There is a divine restlessness in the human heart today, an eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are. Now, in this exquisitely crafted, inspirational book, John O'Donohue explores that... -
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
RRP: £8.99£6.45More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some... -
Oxford Student Texts: Robert Frost: Selected Poems by Robert Frost
£11.76One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.Making A Level texts... -
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg 9780520272460
RRP: £38.00£30.41This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
RRP: £12.99£8.48Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage 9780571357307
RRP: £10.99£7.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in its own eccentric way, [The Owl and the Nightingale] is every bit as enticing as Gawain . ... -
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99£10.70The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins... -
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Illustrated by Edward Gorey by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.32A stunning new gift edition of this much-loved classic, with the celebrated black-and-white illustrations by Edward Gorey.Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad.Some are good, and some are bad . . .The whimsical 1982 Old Possum's illustrations have been... -
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney 9780393330106
RRP: £19.99£16.97Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99£6.45A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with... -
Midnight Feasts: Tasty poems chosen by A.F. Harrold by A.F. Harrold
RRP: £14.99£9.80The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imaginable. Food is the one thing that unites us all - across time, nations and peoples. From chocolate,...