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Waiting for My Life: Poems by Linda Pastan 9780393000498
RRP: £14.50£13.44This remarkable new collection of poems is a sure affirmation of the fact that, as one critic has written, Linda Pastan "has quietly become one of our leading poets." Another critic noted, of her first volume, that she "in large measure fulfilled... -
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry by Kwame Dawes 9781845231293
RRP: £9.99£6.99Red is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets. "Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows."... -
Testimony by Charles Reznikoff
RRP: £17.99£12.70A milestone of modern poetry, American history comes to life in the actual words of victims and criminals in its courts.Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts,... -
The Interrogation: Poems by Michael Bazzett 9781571314932
RRP: £11.99£9.73From the author of You Must Remember This, an uncanny collection of poems that plumbs our capacity for cruelty and for wonder. Who? A speaker at once questioner and questioned. An artist who embraces and resists what his work requires of him. "A naked... -
New Addresses by Kenneth Koch 9780375709128
RRP: £14.92£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709128Author Kenneth KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125g -
Medea: A New Translation by Euripides 9780520307407
RRP: £10.99£8.68Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the... -
The Laughter of the Sphinx by Michael Palmer 9780811225540
RRP: £12.99£11.46Michael Palmer's new book-a collection in two parts, "The Laughter of the Sphinx" and "Still (a cantata-or nada-for Sister Satan)"-contains 52 poems. The title poem begins "The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed" and haunts us with the ruin... -
Prayers of a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke 9781612616414
RRP: £17.00£13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612616414Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 142g -
Poems: Kajal Ahmad by Kajal Ahmad 9781904634720
RRP: £4.00£3.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634720Author Kajal AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon PressWeight(grams) 58g -
Petrarch's Canzoniere: Scattered Rhymes; A New Verse Translation by Peter Thornton
RRP: £20.00£13.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909954335Author Peter ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Barbican PressPublisher Barbican Press -
Women Who Burn by Beth Sutherland 9781804391822
RRP: £4.99£4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391822Author Beth SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
The Glory Of Iqbal: 1877 1938 by Abdul Hasan Ali Nadwi 9780953758296
£10.48It was after his return from Europe that he started his real poetic career. His transitory period was over. His ideas had matured and he had formulated his outlook on human aspects, which lasted throughout his life. Ansaari-Khudi (Secrets of Self) and... -
Beautiful Monsters by Stuart Henson
RRP: £10.00£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553164Author Stuart HensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 106gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Life for Us by Choman Hardi
RRP: £9.95£7.08Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan just before her family fled to Iran. She returned home at the age of five, but when she was 14 the Kurds were attacked with chemical weapons, and her family were forced back into exile. Her poems chart lives of... -
Leading From The Jumpseat: How to Create Extraordinary Opportunities by Handing Over Control by Peter Docker 9781739924034
RRP: £19.95£12.26Everyone is capable of accomplishing extraordinary things. If you share this belief, then this book was written for you. In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from... -
Lawrence And The Arabs by Robert Graves
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808204Author Robert GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
On Haiku by Hiroaki Sato 9780811227414
RRP: £15.99£13.21Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of... -
Astronomica by Marcus Manilius
RRP: £24.95£24.54Poetry of the sky and stars.Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial... -
Stitching the Dark: New and Selected Poems by Carole Satyamurti
RRP: £10.95£7.38Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between connected and separate lives. With an unflinching eye, she takes on complex and often painful subject-matter - cancer for instance... -
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 by Aberjhani 9780557063246
RRP: £6.38£5.79For the past two years (2006-2008) The Bridge of Silver Wings has earned a name for itself both as a series of poems published in different e-zines and as a book first published in 2007. What makes this 2009 edition a special one is the inclusion of five... -
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales by Thomas Hahn
£38.53This volume is the first affordable, modern collection of all eleven of the known Middle English Gawain tales, and aims to make these texts accessible to a wider, contemporary audience. These poems-The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Sir Gawain... -
My Voice Sought the Wind by Susan Abulhawa 9781935982326
RRP: £18.99£10.16"I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel,... -
Cyclone by Robert Peake 9781911027447
RRP: £9.99£6.99Robert Peake's second full collection of poems is about weathering storms-personal, political, psychological-in our present-day climate of chaos. These are matters of life or death, and Cyclone urges us to consider what the ill wind may bring, and how we... -
A Psalm for Us by Reyna Biddy
RRP: £11.99£7.59From the author of I Love My Love comes this spiritual inquiry in four parts - the blues, epiphany, prayer, and rebirth. A Psalm for Us is Reyna "Biddy" Mays's soulful collection of prose, self-affirmations, spoken word poems, and short... -
An Cuilithionn 1939: The Cuillin 1939 and Unpublished Poems by Sorley Maclean
RRP: £12.50£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781906841034Author Sorley MacleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint... -
The Downward Journey or the Tyrant: Zeus Catechized - Zeus Rants by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ... -
Starry Night, Blurry Dreams by Henn Kim
RRP: £12.99£10.83welcome to the beautiful universe of Henn Kim who are you when you're alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of visual poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. a heavy heart is hard to carry hold on When words... -
Poems from Paintings by Jill Saudek
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398459700Author Jill SaudekFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems by Raymond Carver
£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743271Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 144gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 by Yusef Komunyakaa
RRP: £20.00£12.58These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past... -
Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock
RRP: £9.95£6.78Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £50.00£33.49A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot... -
The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser 9780300042450
£50.87This is the first comprehensive edition of Spenser's shorter poems since the Variorum Minor Poems published in the 1940s. In the interval our understanding of Renaissance culture of Spenser's work has changed greatly. The new Shorter Poems has a double... -
A Kist o Skinklan Things: An Anthology of Scots Poetry from the First and Second Waves of the Scottish Renaissance by J. Derrick McClure
RRP: £14.95£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841294Author J. Derrick McClureFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish... -
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9781626863897
RRP: £11.99£7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626863897Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 463g -
Pictures from Mayhew.: London 1850 by John Seed 9780907562627
RRP: £12.95£11.76Every word in this book by John Seed is drawn from Henry Mayhew's writings on London, published in the 'Morning Chronicle' from 1849 to 1850, then in 63 editions of his own weekly paper, 'London Labour and the London Poor' between December 1850 and... -
Nineveh by Zohar Atkins 9781784107390
RRP: £9.99£6.99Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Zohar Atkins's poems offer humour and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigmatic, mystical theophany... -
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the President by David Lehman
RRP: £18.00£13.46Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743243506Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Unseen Poems by Rumi
RRP: £12.00£8.44Rumi: Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz.The... -
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth 9780811201803
RRP: £12.99£9.79The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries-Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)-his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are...