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Without End: New and Selected Poems by Zagajewski Adam
RRP: £21.00£13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528614Author Zagajewski AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Poems of Charlotte Smith by Charlotte Smith 9780195083583
RRP: £39.49£30.82Charlotte Smith's life was the stuff of romantic anguish; upon marriage she felt exiled in "personal slavery", and began publishing poems to earn money while in debtor's prison with her extravagant husband. They subsequently resided in France... -
Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry by Robert Atwan 9780195093513
£31.70The Bible is by far the leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan,... -
The Covenant by Thorne Moore 9781912905232
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905232Author Thorne MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Honno Welsh Women's PressPublisher Honno Welsh Women's Press -
The Book of Songs by Arthur Waley 9780802134776
RRP: £11.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134776Author Arthur WaleyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Lamb Cycle – What the Great English Poets Would Have Written About Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First) by David Ewbank
RRP: £14.99£11.77The rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” told in the style—and substance—of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith. In The Lamb Cycle, David R. Ewbank achieves the unthinkable—he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English... -
Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780814320389
RRP: £26.95£21.86Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character,... -
Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads by Saglar Bougdaeva
RRP: £16.99£12.26The first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history. This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan's medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is... -
Selected Poems: George Crabbe by George Crabbe 9780856356216
RRP: £12.99£8.94Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780856356216Author George CrabbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Fyfield BooksPublisher Carcanet Press Ltd -
Out of Doors: Nature Songs and Poetry by Annie Johnson Flint 9781789870442
£7.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789870442Author Annie Johnson FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)... -
The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £9.99£6.70Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and ... -
The Woman Who Always Loved Picasso by Julia Blackburn 9781784109189
RRP: £9.99£6.99Marie-Therese Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until... -
Snowflake / different streets by Eileen Myles
RRP: £14.99£9.88"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."--Dennis Cooper "[Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous...To... -
Gitanjali (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: £6.95£5.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957240121Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Haiku (Volume III): Summer / Autumn by R H Blyth 9781621387268
£28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387268Author R H BlythFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 32mm -
The Heart is Strange by John Berryman 9780374535780
RRP: £10.99£9.69John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world... -
Hitting the Streets by Raymond Queneau 9781847771575
RRP: £14.99£10.77Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. Hitting the Streets is Queneau's love letters to... -
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forche 9780393309768
RRP: £29.95£21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393309768Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co -
Ten Sexy Poems by Di Slaney 9781907598692
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598692Author Di SlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
The Tree Line: Poems for Trees, Woods and People by Michael McKimm 9781905208371
RRP: £10.00£8.25Over a period of several months poets were invited to write new poems in response to the 1217 Charter of the Forest, to trees or woodland of personal significance to them, or how trees have shaped our society, landscape and lives. They sent poems about... -
Selected Poems by James Tate 9780819511928
RRP: £14.95£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780819511928Author James TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher... -
European Hours:: Collected Poems by Anthony Rudolf
RRP: £12.99£8.94For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator, critic, editor, and publisher: all in all, an enabler of writers and readers. His own poems come to him gradually, under pressure of real themes and subjects, refined by the... -
Come Closer and Listen: New Poems by Charles Simic 9780062908476
RRP: £12.99£10.20An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor,... -
Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me by Emmy Marucci 9781449496890
RRP: £19.99£12.83From writer, photographer, and fashion editor Emmy Marucci comes an arrestingly candid volume of poetry and photographs exploring the universality of family nostalgia, grief and loss, fear, and enduring love. In Tell Me Another Story, Marucci examines... -
She Returns to the Floating World: (Second Edition) by Jeannine Hall Gailey 9780615956800
RRP: £16.00£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615956800Author Jeannine Hall GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past by James Longenbach 9780691609720
RRP: £42.00£33.04By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their... -
Glass and Keys by Samuel Rankin
RRP: £6.99£6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398435957Author Samuel RankinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Countdown by Carole Satyamurti
RRP: £8.95£6.18The central theme of Carole Satyamurti's new collection is the shifting relationship between loss and gain. It explores the varied ways in which that relationship is played out in day-to-day experience. The poems range from personal to the political, the... -
In the Pines by Alice Notley
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112549Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 183gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *... -
Bubbles on my Kneecaps by Francesca Foxcroft 9781838349509
RRP: £12.99£8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838349509Author Francesca FoxcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Foxbooks PublishingPublisher Foxbooks PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
Dictionary of Midnight by Abdulla Pashew
RRP: £19.00£12.95With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew's poems chart a personal cartography of exile,... -
As When: A Selection by Tom Raworth
RRP: £14.99£10.77Dubbed 'an immaculate survivor' by Robert Creeley, Tom Raworth has remained steadfastly independent of literary fashions and cliques throughout a poetic career spanning fifty years. As When is the first selection of Raworth's writing to address the full... -
A Time Between Ashes and Roses by Adonis 9780815608288
RRP: £16.95£12.97In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imagery of Baudelaire, Cavafy, and Lorca. Three long poems... -
Collected Poems by Edward Dorn
RRP: £40.00£28.90The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn s writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn s epic poem "Gunslinger, "this collection which is both wonderfully... -
The Oresteia of Aeschylus by Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D.
RRP: £16.99£15.41The stories are familiar: family disharmony, mourning the loss of a loved one, vengeance, national tyranny, international war, a desire for justice. This new translation by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein, an independent scholar and novelist, preserves the... -
Viva Loch Lomond! by Elvis McGonagall
£13.04Viva Loch Lomond! collects the greatest hits of stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall in one volume for the first time. Witty, satirical but not afraid to be plain daft, Elvis McGonagall's work takes aim at our septic isle of... -
The Shining by Dorothea Lasky 9781950268856
RRP: £12.99£8.63As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky's The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and... -
The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Early Poems by May Sarton 9780393306354
RRP: £13.50£11.16"Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style."-Boston GlobeAbout the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"The title of [Sarton's] luminous... -
Oxygen: Selected Poems by Julia Fiedorczuk by Bill Johnston 9781938890192
RRP: £10.99£10.93Explorations of humans in the natural world using tender, sometimes erotic, always moving language. Julia Fiedorczuk entangles images and concepts from science (astronomy, physics, and biology) with deeply personal explorations of relationships and... -
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
RRP: £19.99£15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062389091Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 386g