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Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge 9780190685423
£30.16Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this... -
Plum by Hollie McNish
RRP: £12.99£8.48A wise, rude, sharp poetry collection encompassing a life from childhood to attempted adulthood, from one of the most important poets of the new generation.'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love. She points out the absurdities we've grown... -
The River in the Sky by Clive James
RRP: £10.99£7.93A single book-length poem, The River in the Sky sees Clive James face up to his final moments of life with all the wisdom, lightly-worn erudition and good humour that defined his extraordinary career.Close to death for a number of years, Clive James... -
Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect by Jane Clarke 9781399729611
RRP: £20.99£14.36What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past, our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What clues lie within its language that connect us to our deeper selves and our place within our communities... -
Zafarnama by Guru Gobind Singh 9780143425557
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143425557Author Guru Gobind Singh and Navtej SarnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
England's Green by Zaffar Kunial
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONZaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so... -
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
RRP: £25.00£16.99This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well... -
Object Lessons by Eavan Boland 9781857548822
RRP: £14.99£10.77'I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually constructed, but as a poem might be. In turnings and returnings. In parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully... -
New Oxford Student Texts: Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer by Diane Maybank
£11.76Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on 'She Stoops to Conquer' by Oliver Goldsmith.Student... -
Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
RRP: £17.99£12.95If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to Joyce, Eliot and Pound, it was Pound's personality and position in the artistic world that enabled the experiment to transform itself into an international movement. In 1926 Pound brought... -
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation,... -
Collected Poems (Revised) by Charles Causley 9780330375573
RRP: £16.99£11.87This revised collection of poems gathers together Charles Causley's poetry spanning a period of more than fifty years and includes previously unpublished work as well as some of his poems for children.'There are poems in this superb volume that will... -
The Book of Healing by Najwa Zebian
RRP: £15.99£12.01From bestselling author, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a collectible treasury of her most beloved poetry and prose. Selected by the author and organized by topic, the pieces in this collection address themes such as letting go, understanding... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £14.99£11.12An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Italian with an introduction by Mark Musa.This vigorous... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780143039952
RRP: £14.99£10.95Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin... -
Poem For The Day One by Nicholas Albery
RRP: £16.99£12.28This book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats, Shakespeare, Housman and... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: £10.99£8.53The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman
RRP: £16.99£11.54Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction... -
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
RRP: £9.99£6.64Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation, whose truths have resonated with people all over the... -
Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan
RRP: £9.99£7.11Selected by Sean Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko... -
The Essential Rumi Revised by Coleman Barks
RRP: £13.99£11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062509598Author Coleman BarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
RRP: £6.99£5.13'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovelyand more temperate . . .'Shakespeare's 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: £11.99£10.04One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the... -
Inferno (Collins Classics) by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.' Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common... -
A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.40Jane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place. In luminous language her poems explore how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present reverberate with courage and resilience in face... -
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon 9780571064540
RRP: £9.99£6.70George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, of village cricket and loyal grooms, had vanished forever by the... -
New and Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
RRP: £16.99£11.58This volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes's writing life, and some new work. ... -
The Poetry of Horses by Various
RRP: £7.99£5.79Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide... -
A Day in Summer by J. L. Carr
£9.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904016076Author J. L. CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint The Quince Tree PressPublisher The Quince Tree PressDimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 15mm -
Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
RRP: £19.00£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015 and Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594649Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage... -
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
RRP: £12.99£9.09A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set,... -
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C. Foster
RRP: £10.99£7.25From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as... -
Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has... -
The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves by Kip Thorne 9781631498541
RRP: £39.99£35.18Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe's "Warped... -
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194667Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 342g -
A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland-Hunter
RRP: £24.95£16.81365 poems celebrating nature and the changing seasons. This is the perfect bedside companion for any nature or poetry fan, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from less-well-known writers. Each poem is chosen to chime with... -
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology by Francis O'Gorman 9780631234364
RRP: £34.95£31.83Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert... -
All Of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver 9781860463648
RRP: £18.99£13.61Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put... -
The Major Works: including poems, plays, and critical prose by W. B. Yeats
RRP: £10.99£7.77This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays,... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: £9.99£8.82Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world, while debates still rage as to the identity of the Dark Lady and how autobiographical the sonnets really are. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets...