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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £16.99£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156005746Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386g -
The River's Voice: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: £9.95£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098823Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
The Iliad of Homer by Homer 9780226470498
RRP: £15.00£13.45"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation-the gold standard for generations of students and general readers... -
R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £5.99£4.40R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate.* Introduction by a leading author or... -
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035038541
RRP: £10.99£7.25Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the... -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
RRP: £9.95£6.97"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self-portrait, has become Ashbery's best-known poem. It is... -
Oak by Katharine Towers
RRP: £10.99£7.77Oaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in human imagination and language for millennia. Their great, slow lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed Virginia Woolf's Orlando took 300 years over their own quercian... -
Soho by Richard Scott
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZEIn this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising... -
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Helen Cooper
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle... -
Two Countries by Katrina Porteous
RRP: £12.99£8.60Two Countries is a book of poems about place: about landscape, community, and the shifting, provisional relations between them. Born in Scotland, Katrina Porteous grew up in North-East England. These poems explore the ambiguities of borderlands, from the... -
Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe 9781400076581
£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400076581Author Chinua AchebeFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Little Book of Love by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: £6.99£5.13One of the world's favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profound than when he wrote about love. He believed it was the raison d'etre of the universe. With the simplicity and lyrical beauty of The Prophet, his reflections on love and... -
Three Births by K Patrick 9781915051097
RRP: £12.99£8.56An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings,... -
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
RRP: £12.99£8.63Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral... -
Horace Opera by H. W. Garrod 9780198146186
RRP: £23.99£22.37The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
RRP: £12.99£8.32A fantastic Christmas present for Neil Gaiman super fans ** AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 NEWS ** Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman... -
The Advantages of Nearly Dying by Michael Rosen
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772291Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
The Baton Rouge Interviews: with Edouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin by Kate M Cooper
RRP: £22.99£20.72This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences... -
Poems from the Soul: Twelve of the Great Hymns of Wales by M. Wynn Thomas 9781837600113
RRP: £12.99£9.09Even as many in the modern world draw away from organised religion, the great hymns of our time persist: we turn to them at weddings and funerals, at rugby matches and in pubs. Bringing together twelve of Wales's best-loved hymns, from the... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780199537372
RRP: £8.99£6.45The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often... -
Wedding Readings and Poems by Becky Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.51Offering indispensable inspiration for wedding readings, this gorgeous compilation of writing on love and marriage is also the perfect gift for couples and wedding guests alike.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky by Rudy Francisco 9781638340775
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340775Author Rudy FranciscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set by Homer 9780520306653
RRP: £42.00£35.44A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time in this striking and... -
Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: by Edouard Glissant by Celia Britton
RRP: £22.99£20.72This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction a une poetique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from L'Imaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). ... -
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: £9.99£7.11As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.'Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of... -
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' SpectatorDante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes... -
Clare: Everyman's Poetry by John Clare
RRP: £5.99£4.40John Clares verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound understanding of nature and of his contemporary rural society.* Introduction by leading academic or author notes:... -
A Wedding at Cafe Lompar by Anna & Jacqui Burns 9781912905607
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905607Author Anna & Jacqui BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno Ltd -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140442397
RRP: £12.99£9.09Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle... -
Taking the Arrow out of the Heart by Alice Walker
RRP: £9.99£6.80Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic, The Color Purple, returns with a poetry collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. In Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart, Alice Walker examines our troubled times,... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £10.99£9.09Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
Christmas Poems by Wendy Cope
RRP: £7.99£5.46For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and previously... -
The Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.85The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £9.99£6.70Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and... -
Take What You Need by Zara Bas 9780645545562
£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645545562Author Zara BasFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Zara Bas PublishingPublisher Zara Bas PublishingWeight(grams) 227g -
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021'[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside.' Mark Haddon 'Moving deftly... -
A Poem for Every Winter Day by Allie Esiri
RRP: £16.99£11.87Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Winter Day, you will find verse that will transport you to sparkling winter scenes, taking you from Christmas, to New Years Eve and the joys of Valentines Day. The poems are... -
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£8.56Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those 'private, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9781853264337
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the... -
Ten Poems from Yorkshire by Ian McMillan 9781913627270
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627270Author Ian McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press