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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... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781847496089
RRP: £6.99£5.13Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time... -
Waiting for Bluebeard by Helen Ivory
RRP: £9.95£6.78Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house. The story begins with a part-remembered, part-imagined childhood, where seances are held, and a father drowns in oil beneath the skeleton of... -
Silvae by Statius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Stately verse.Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The... -
The Orchid in the Snow by Chase Daniel Dieleman 9781513653051
RRP: £8.99£7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513653051Author Chase Daniel DielemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Www.Isbnagency.comPublisher Www.Isbnagency.comWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by Rita Dove 9780143121480
RRP: £30.00£20.10Penguin's landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United... -
New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology by Kei Miller 9781857549416
RRP: £12.95£8.91There is a greeting used in urban America, 'What's good?', which seems to go beyond a mere 'How are you?' or 'What's happening?' to demand an optimistic response. Perhaps, writes the young Jamaican poet Kei Miller in his introduction to "New Caribbean... -
Reams of Reem: Poetry Collection by Reem Alselami 9781399918954
RRP: £22.22£19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399918954Author Reem AlselamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Wadi SetarahPublisher Wadi SetarahWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm -
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth
RRP: £29.00£20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592171Author Kenneth RexrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 900Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1048g -
Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined by Ann Sansom 9781906613617
RRP: £10.00£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613617Format PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 385g -
Crystallography by Christian Bok 9781552451199
RRP: £10.99£7.38Published in 1994, Crystallography was a gem of a book, an instant hit that was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. It has been unavailable for an ice age, and Coach House Books is proud to bring it back. 'Crystallography' means the study of... -
The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr
RRP: £26.95£21.41In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her... -
This changes things by Claire Askew
RRP: £9.95£7.08This changes things was Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women - particularly the socially or economically... -
A Story I Am In: Selected Poems by James Berry
RRP: £10.95£7.38"A Story I Am In" is not just James Berry's life in poetry but a book of all the lives he has witnessed or been part of - a story of life itself. He came to Britain in 1948, in the first postwar wave of Jamaican emigration, later becoming one of the... -
You Are Not Alone by Louise Mitchell
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478336Author Louise MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Prologue Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
£6.15York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
Notes from the Divided Country: Poems by Suji Kwock Kim 9780807128732
RRP: £14.95£9.95In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects- colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language,... -
Blackish by Tyrone Lewis 9781911570677
£14.25From family to relationships to race, we all have different factors which contribute to our overall identity. Blackish explores the complexity of Identity, whether it be how one identifies themselves, or how their identity is perceived by others... -
New Weather by Paul Muldoon 9780571384426
RRP: £12.99£8.56New Weather was Paul Muldoon's first book of poems. When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an... -
Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright by Charles Wright 9780374539085
RRP: £24.99£19.20The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there. Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere- Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing. -from "Scar... -
Within the Sweet Noise of Life: Selected Poems by Sandro Penna
RRP: £14.99£13.43Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most of his life in Rome. Openly gay, Penna wrote verses celebrating homosexual love with lyrical elegance. His... -
Of Love and Desire by Louis de Bernieres
RRP: £14.99£11.35Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernieres, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms - from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernieres' first and greatest... -
Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £9.99£6.75"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins,... -
Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry by John Ashbery
RRP: £25.00£17.72To mark John Ashbery's 70th birthday, Carcanet publish his first five books of poems in a single volume: "The Tennis Court Oath" (1962); "Same Trees" (1956); "Rivers and Mountains" (1966); "The Double Dream of... -
The Problem of the Many by Timothy Donnelly
RRP: £10.99£8.25'The best collection I've read in ages: every poem contains something unexpected and unexpectedly powerful. This is serious, modern, ambitious and bold work - the kind of poetry you hope to find, and rarely do' - Nick LairdJohn Ashbery called Timothy... -
Tidal Pools and Other Small Infinities by Kristen Costello 9781771683562
RRP: £12.99£8.18"You'll walk away with more gratitude for the slow burn of the healing process." - Alicia Cook, author of Sorry I Haven't Texted You BackTidal Pools and Other Small Infinities blurs the lines between endings and beginnings. The love story starts in the... -
Kate o Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems by Matthew Fitt 9781842820285
RRP: £6.99£5.13After a wild night-oot up at Kirk Alloway, Tam o Shanter has got some explaining to do. How does Kate take the news o his hell-raising ceilidh wi the witches? Why is the family cuddie wrapped aroond a lamp post? Does Tam get his tea or has he had his... -
Under Her Skin by Toni Miller 9781645480440
RRP: £13.95£9.42A showcase of poetry from some of the darkest and most lyrical voices of women in horror.Under Her Skin features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the voices of Women in Horror. Centered on the innate relationship... -
The Brink by Jacob Polley
RRP: £9.99£7.27Though still in his mid-twenties Jacob Polley is already in possession of a remarkably mature talent. Formally graceful, but unself-conscious, his poems come at the reader from all angles, wholly alive to the unique possibilities of their subjects - the... -
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of Shorter Poems by John Williams
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179772Author John WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
London: A History in Verse by Mark Ford 9780674088047
RRP: £30.95£25.42Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present... -
Ephemera by Sierra DeMulder
RRP: £16.99£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340638Author Sierra DeMulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 170g -
Santa Tarantula by Jordan Pérez 9780268207519
RRP: £62.00£53.56The poems in Santa Tarantula grant an urgent and haunting voice to the voiceless, explore ancient narratives, delve into Cuban history and identity, and confront trauma and violence. Jordan Pérez explores the tension between fear and reprieve, between... -
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology by Isobel Armstrong 9780198112907
£43.40Nineteenth-Century Women Poets is a major new anthology, turning a wide focus on a period which has traditionally had only its most eminent writers examined in any depth. Beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld's petition to William Wilberforce and ending... -
Raptors by Toon Tellegen 9781847770837
RRP: £12.95£8.91With the economy of a proverb and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen's acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque... -
Confessions of Her by Cindy Cherie 9781771682138
RRP: £13.95£8.96Confessions of Her is a tale of survival depicting how one young woman found love in herself, rather than searching for it in the arms of another. This autobiographical collection of poetry and prose takes the reader on a journey of love and loss,...