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Modern Bengali Poetry: Desire for Fire by Arunava Sinha 9781912681228
RRP: £11.99£8.43The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern... -
Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs 9781784106478
RRP: £9.99£6.99C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs `a Johnsonian presence with a Miltonic disability' - a reference to the poet's blindness. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. His... -
21 Poems by George Oppen 9780811226912
RRP: £8.99£7.81The Objectivist Press published George Oppen's first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with... -
The Wild Swans at Coole: A Facsimile Edition by William Butler Yeats
RRP: £18.00£11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106040Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Remains by Annie Freud
RRP: £9.99£7.27Annie Freud's new book The Remains was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of Sung Dynasty works on paper, and their unselfconscious blending of illustration and poetry. However the book has its imaginative origins in a huge collection of broken... -
The Essential Homer by Homer 9780872205406
RRP: £19.99£16.44Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.About the AuthorStanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical... -
Car Racing 1967 by Johnny Rives 9782702211113
RRP: £85.00£56.45The third volume in the 'Car Racing' collection, 1967 bears witness to the gradual appearance of colour. Photographers henceforth juggled rolls of both black & white and colour film as they ventured as close as possible to the drivers and throngs... -
Everything to Play for: 99 Poems About Sport by John McAuliffe 9781902121574
RRP: £12.00£8.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902121574Author John McAuliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Poetry Ireland Ltd.Publisher Poetry Ireland Ltd.Weight(grams) 564g -
Night Photograph by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: £12.99£8.56Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who... -
Fountain of Life: Book of Christian Poetry and Words of Wisdom by Marie -Pearl Addo 9780955645815
£8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955645815Author Marie -Pearl AddoFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Marie-Pearl AddoPublisher Marie-Pearl Addo -
Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment by Lex Hixon
RRP: £11.99£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607025Author Lex HixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S. -
Watering Can by Caroline Bird 9781847770882
RRP: £9.95£6.97Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The... -
Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth-century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous... -
Punica: v. 1: Bks.I-VIII by Silius Italicus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Ancient Rome's longest epic.Silius Italicus (T. Catius, AD 25-101), was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of... -
Spacecraft by John McCullough
RRP: £9.99£6.99Margins, edges and coastlines abound in John McCullough's tender, humorous explorations of contemporary life and love. Encompassing everything from lichen to lava lamps, and from the etymology of words to Brighton's gay scene,& Spacecraft is a humane and... -
Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £12.99£11.46Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city... -
Jade Ladder by W. N. Herbert
RRP: £12.00£8.00This anthology is the record of a revolution in Chinese poetry. As the Cultural Revolution gave way to the post-Mao era - years of political turmoil, economic boom and the return of Hong Kong - the present period has been one of extraordinary and deeply... -
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot 9780151686568
RRP: £16.00£9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780151686568Author T. S. EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco Press -
Sunday Sparrows by Lin Song 9781938890253
RRP: £10.99£7.38Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning... -
Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding
RRP: £8.99£6.53Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one... -
Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £9.99£6.70Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Poems on historical battles where horses played an important part present us with a commentary on the political agenda of... -
The Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian
RRP: £30.00£23.29Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem "My Life", a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. "The Language of Inquiry" is a... -
Rythmes Pittoresques by Marie Krysinksa 9780859897112
RRP: £20.00£17.62The poems in Rythmes pittoresques, first published in 1890, present not only a poet searching for a voice, but also a female poet searching for a voice while breaking down rules of both versification and gender-determined source of expression. They went... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780140440515
RRP: £10.99£7.77Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the conquering Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey, from a doomed love affair in Carthage with the tragic Queen Dido to a... -
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic by Mahogany L Browne
RRP: £14.99£9.88Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys' club, and asserts the truth that the cypher... -
Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire 9780486270920
RRP: £13.49£9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270920Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen 9780140589184
RRP: £20.42£15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589184Author Philip WhalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Coming of the Little Green Man by John Agard
RRP: £9.95£6.78John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In The Coming of the Little Green Man, his eighth Bloodaxe collection, we enter a world of play... -
The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048692Author Canisia LubrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc. -
Pangaea: Prose and Poetry by Hinnah Mian 9781771682589
RRP: £14.95£9.62"if you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body." Pangaea is a collection of poetry about working through the trauma inflicted on a body, whether the trauma comes from a person, a country, or from within. It is the act of... -
Love Songs And Sonnets by Peter Washington 9781857157314
RRP: £12.00£8.44This is the fourth volume in the series of Everyman Pocket Poet Love Poems, following the success of Love poems, Erotic Poems and Love Letters. LOVE SONGS AND SONNETS takes a wider view of love, covering all aspects of human relationships, from... -
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £8.99£6.08The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets... -
This Dance of Bliss: Ecstatic Poetry from Around the World (a Poetry Chaikhana Anthology) by Ivan M Granger 9780985467975
RRP: £12.77£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985467975Author Ivan M GrangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Poetry ChaikhanaPublisher Poetry ChaikhanaWeight(grams) 268g -
The Road to Cleethorpes Pier: A 'beautiful, thoughtful' memoir with poetry by Margaret Royall
RRP: £8.99£6.45"I never missed my childhood home / until the tide stopped rolling in and / ochre sand no longer crunched between my toes ..." A little girl grows up to the sounds of the seaside in bustling Cleethorpes. There are family outings through the... -
A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's "The Divine Comedy" by Joseph Gallagher 9780764804946
RRP: £17.99£14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764804946Author Joseph GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liguori Publications,U.S.Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Over by Jane Draycott 9781903039922
RRP: £9.95£6.97"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces, Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections... -
Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter 9781781721513
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721513Author Carrie EtterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g -
The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Heather Clark 9780199558193
RRP: £122.50£96.52Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's... -
Expiry Date by Rachel Ward 9781912240982
RRP: £7.99£5.79Bea's favourite customer, Julie, hasn't been seen for weeks. Her abusive husband, Dave, claims she's left him but Bea can't shake the feeling something worse has happened. When a body is found, it seems to confirm her fears - until it comes out that the... -
Self Love Notes: Uplifting Poetry, Affirmations & Quotes by Michelle G Stradford 9781737010319
RRP: £12.39£8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737010319Author Michelle G StradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Michelle G. StradfordPublisher Michelle G. StradfordWeight(grams)...