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The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Swooningly glorious' The Times'Indisputably her best volume' Sunday TimesThe Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger;... -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
RRP: £14.99£11.35Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassioned paradox, outbreaks of cynicism and wry humour make his work particularly... -
Selected Poems by Lord Byron
RRP: £16.99£12.68Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual... -
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £18.99£12.83Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. Heaney and Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection,... -
Tomorrow is Beautiful by Sarah Crossan
RRP: £12.99£8.78_______________ 'What a joy of a book this is' - Irish Times 'A delightful collection' - Scotsman _______________ Sometimes it's hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all. ... -
100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith 9780486285535
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486285535Author Philip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm)... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780199536795
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer.' Atlantic Monthly The Iliad is the story of a few days' fighting in the tenth year of the legendary war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which broke out when... -
Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.Introducing Little... -
The Heart's Time: A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter by Janet Morley
RRP: £10.99£7.77A day by day Lent book aimed at the individual reader, in which a poem appropriate to the themes of the season is read, along with a short reflection from the editor and a couple of questions to ponder. The purpose is to use a poetic text as the basis... -
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar
RRP: £12.99£9.09*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**'Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second... -
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert's Poems Through Lent by Mark Oakley
RRP: £10.99£7.77George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems... -
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
RRP: £14.99£9.36A revised hardcover edition of the Number One Sunday Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the Number One Sunday Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and... -
Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post 9780198851417
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at... -
The Night Before Christmas Board Book: The Classic Edition, The New York Times Bestseller by Charles Santore
RRP: £5.99£4.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604334388Author Charles SantorePage Count 24Imprint Cider Mills PressPublisher Sterling Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 281g -
If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope
RRP: £12.99£8.56Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil... -
The Swallow, the Owl and the Sandpiper: Words of Courage, Wisdom and Spirit by Rodger McPhail 9780956374448
RRP: £14.99£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956374448Author Rodger McPhailFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Finks Publishing LtdPublisher Finks Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 190mm * 130mm * 20mm -
Blessing The Boats by Lucille Clifton
RRP: £9.99£7.11An award-winning collection from one of America's most beloved twentieth-century poets'The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton - both the woman and her poetry - is constant and deeply felt' Toni MorrisonLucille Clifton was one of the most distinguished... -
Handfast: Scottish Poems for Weddings and Affirmations by Liz Lochhead
RRP: £9.99£6.70*Suitable for reading aloud - a lot of similar anthologies have weddings as their subject but don't offer really public poems *Chosen by the Scottish Poetry Library's Assistant Librarian, who has been answering the constant stream of requests for such... -
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews
RRP: £11.99£8.00Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including... -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake 9780241303054
RRP: £12.99£9.09A collectible new Penguin Classics series: beautiful clothbound editions of the most famous verse collections by ten favourite poets. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and attractively set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate... -
The Silence by Gillian Clarke 9781800173927
RRP: £12.99£8.94A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. 'The days have no names. The day they count the dead, the day they closed the doors, turned off the lights. We're still here in the silence, hearing tree-talk, the wind's secrets, the company... -
Selected Poems: with parallel Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.' Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish... -
The Soul Bird: 10th Anniversary Edition by Michal Snunit
RRP: £8.99£6.20Deep down, inside our bodies, lives the soul. No one has ever seen it, but we all know it's there. There is a "soul bird" who lives inside us all. This special bird opens and closes the drawers of our soul, in which we keep all our feelings... -
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems by Misha Collins
RRP: £9.99£6.41NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his "Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle... -
Evidence of Dragons by Pie Corbett
RRP: £6.99£5.27EVIDENCE OF DRAGONS brings Pie Corbett's achingly beautiful poems together for the very first time. His poems are full of the wonder of the ordinary and introduce us to characters and topics as varied as THE LAST UNICORN, MY BROTHER'S PIG, THE DRAGON... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.79Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £9.99£8.59Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten... -
Major Works by John Clare
RRP: £11.99£8.43This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters... -
The Mizzy by Paul Farley
RRP: £14.99£10.95Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. As usual it is impossible to summarize in terms of theme, as his interests are too various: there's an air of 'the innocence of childhood' being viewed through the... -
Conflict Poetry Anthology: New GCSE Grade 9-1 Edexcel English Literature (Collins Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: £5.99£5.10Exam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for GCSE... -
I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £3.00£2.49'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £12.99£8.60Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the... -
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 9781946482013
RRP: £16.00£12.85Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the... -
101 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486417790Author Philip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
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,... -
You Made Me Late Again!: My New Collection by Pam Ayres
RRP: £10.99£7.77With over fifty new poems from Britain's favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam Ayres' incomparable collection of works.Pam's poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In 'The Swifts' and 'The Pyracantha... -
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan 9780571378906
RRP: £10.99£7.32Following their award-winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's latest work... -
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems by John Keats
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty-five. This volume... -
Collected Poems by Roger McGough
RRP: £12.99£9.09Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and... -
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery...