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Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: £8.95£6.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098731Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy... -
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
RRP: £12.99£9.09A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love - gorgeously presented... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath 9780571259311
RRP: £12.99£8.56The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are... -
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £9.99£6.70The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions... -
Point No Point: Selected Poems by Sujata Bhatt
RRP: £9.95£6.97Sujata Bhatt's first book of poems, the award-winning Brunizem, appeared in 1988. In a very short time she has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue... -
Poems for a world gone to sh*t: the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better by Various Poets
RRP: £12.99£8.60DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better.From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Kate... -
Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
RRP: £12.00£8.44*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable... -
I Ching: The Book of Change: a New Translation by David Hinton 9780374536428
RRP: £9.99£6.87In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as... -
The Secret History of the Mongols by Christopher P. Atwood
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships,... -
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World by Cleo Wade 9781982138790
RRP: £23.99£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982138790Author Cleo WadeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 127mm * 20mm -
Into The Valley by Richard Jobson 9781912782949
RRP: £12.99£9.09From school punk to modern day film producer, Richard Jobson has lived a full and colourful life. A harrowing incident as a child left him suffering with epilepsy but he was a mere fifteen-year-old when he launched the punk rock band The Skids in 1977... -
The Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: £18.99£14.01One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with... -
Poems for Travellers by Various
RRP: £10.99£7.51Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
Ten Poems About Gardens by Monty Don
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598074Author Monty DonFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm -
Poems by Christina G. Rossetti 9781857157024
RRP: £12.00£8.44An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics' 128pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The... -
How Long by Ron Padgett 9781566892568
RRP: £11.99£8.00Ron Padgett's title poem asks: "How long do you want to go on being the person you think you are? / How Long, a city in China." With the arrival of his first grandchild, Padgett becomes even more inspired to confront the eternal mysteries in poems with a... -
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. Idylls... -
Rhythms and Roads by Victoria Erickson
RRP: £19.99£13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994784353Author Victoria EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Enrealment PressPublisher Enrealment Press -
John Clare by John Clare
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £9.99£7.11Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
Ted Hughes: Selected Translations by Ted Hughes
RRP: £20.00£13.46The achievement of Ted Hughes as a poet is inseparable from his achievement as a translator of poetry and poetic drama. Throughout a long and intensely productive career, Hughes was continuously engaged in acts of translation, for the page and for the... -
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
RRP: £20.00£13.75We are not wholly bad or goodWho live our lives under Milk WoodAnd Thou, I know, wilt be the firstTo see our best side, not our worst. In this enchanting illustrated adaptation, Cerys Matthews brings Dylan Thomas's beloved classic to new life. This is... -
Jazz Poems by Kevin Young
RRP: £12.00£8.44Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them.From the Harlem Renaissance to the Beat Movement, from... -
The Poem and the Journey: 60 Poems for the Journey of Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: £12.99£9.09Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write... -
Ten Poems About Tea by Sophie Dahl 9781907598029
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598029Author Sophie DahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James 9781529042085
RRP: £20.00£14.29Clive 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... -
Selected Poems: Keats by John Keats
RRP: £8.99£6.45Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly -... -
New and Selected Poems by Ian Duhig
RRP: £14.99£10.95Ian Duhig's effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty years. This eclectic gathering of Duhig's best work draws on material from his acclaimed debut, The Bradford Count, to the... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: £12.99£8.60A stunning new translation of the classic tale of the fall of Troy from one of the world's finest translators. If you enjoyed THE SONG OF ACHILLES, discover the original and the best...Man seduces another's wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his... -
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding... -
Every Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life by Aoibhin Garrihy
RRP: £12.99£8.73'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection of poetry chosen by Aoibhin Garrihy to uplift and inspire,... -
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
RRP: £22.99£16.68Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur... -
Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems by Sebastian P. Brock 9780934893657
RRP: £30.00£25.25Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of... -
Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty by Nikita Gill
RRP: £12.99£8.60A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment.You cannot burn awayWhat has always been aflameWILD EMBERS explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your own skin,... -
The Tale of Sinuhe by R. B. Parkinson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of its culture's ideals and anxieties. This anthology... -
This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi 9781570625336
RRP: £11.99£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625336Author Mevlana Jalaluddin RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: £8.99£6.45Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
RRP: £10.99£7.77Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the...