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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann
RRP: £12.99£8.60Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the death poem. Such a poem... -
Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina G. Rossetti 9780486280554
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486280554Author Christina RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dart by Alice Oswald 9780571259335
RRP: £14.99£9.53Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from... -
Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad by Forugh Farrokhzad 9781557289483
RRP: £21.95£12.02Winner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation PrizeSin includes the entirety of Farrokhzad's last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most enduring book, Reborn, and selections from her earlier work, and creates a collection that is true to... -
Dewdrops On A Lotus Leaf by Ryokan
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301081Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Victor Hugo: Selected Poems / Translated and with an Introduction by Brooks Haxton. by Victor Hugo 9780142437032
RRP: £12.74£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437032Author Victor HugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Over the Moon by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: £12.00£8.00Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement,... -
The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield 9781780376790
RRP: £14.99£9.80Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise... -
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024366Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Bedtime Book for Bump: the perfect gift for expectant parents by Ruth Symons
RRP: £12.99£8.73This gorgeously presented keepsake is the perfect gift for expectant parents, enabling mums- and dads-to-be to bond with their unborn baby.By the third trimester your baby's ears are ready to hear! Featuring expert insights, a gentle rhyme to read to... -
The Butterfly House by Kathryn Bevis 9781781727553
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727553Author Kathryn BevisFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 150g -
Poetry for the Many: An Anthology by Jeremy Corbyn 9781682194331
RRP: £16.99£11.67Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's election slogan "For the... -
The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
RRP: £9.99£6.80We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves.'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY'Elegant, sinister, stylish' CHRIS WHITAKER'Grips from start to finish' HARRIET TYCE* * * * *YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE MAIDENS... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140444445
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The TimesThe first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of dramatic... -
Loss: Poems to better weather the many waves of grief by Donna Ashworth
RRP: £9.99£6.41*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWFor those cast adrift in the lonely sea of grief, this collection offers solace for when the water gets rough.Donna Ashworth's poetry... -
Devotions by Mary Oliver
RRP: £30.00£19.80A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book ClubChosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog... -
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Friendship Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili: Volume 1 by Rumi
RRP: £9.99£6.80Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on friendship from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin... -
Ovid Metamorphoses by R. J. Tarrant
£28.78An Oxford Classical texts edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses has been planned for nearly a century, but earlier efforts by D. A. Slater and Franco Munari were not completed, largely because of the size and complexity of the manuscript tradition. Building on... -
The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £10.99£7.25Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.Book InformationISBN 9780876858639Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Sunshine Kid by Harry Baker
RRP: £8.99£6.45When Harry Baker first started writing rap infused poetry he was advised to "write about what you know" so instead of writing about killing people, or driving fast cars (over people), he wrote about mathematics.It is not all complex maths and algebra... -
Serenity by F.S. Yousaf
RRP: £9.99£6.41Soft spoken yet powerful, Serenity perfectly captures the constant battle of fear and courage that lives within us. The seeds of Serenity were planted in F.S. Yousaf's last collection of poetry, Sincerely. Struck by inspiration and overwhelmed by the... -
This is Yarrow by Tara Bergin 9781847772367
RRP: £9.95£6.97The poems in Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous... -
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson 9781784879020
RRP: £9.99£7.11This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls... -
Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur 9780312421878
RRP: £23.00£14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421878Author Barry MazurFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
The Moon on My Tongue: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English by Ben Styles 9781911469032
RRP: £11.99£8.29From both revered, established writers and exciting contemporary poets, the work in this anthology offers a broad picture of Maori poetry written in English. The encounter between Maori writers and the English language has been one of creativity and... -
The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry
RRP: £8.99£6.45I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free... -
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,... -
Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees
RRP: £12.99£8.56Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.Modernism's lost masterpiece.About the AuthorHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists... -
The Kids by Hannah Lowe 9781780375793
RRP: £10.99£7.32Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised portraits of 'The Kids', the students she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child... -
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux
RRP: £12.99£8.63Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we----with the great visionary Michaux as our guide----are... -
In Queen Mary's Gardens by Tom Morgan 9780948339806
RRP: £4.95£3.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948339806Author Tom MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Salmon Publishing LtdPublisher Salmon Poetry -
Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £10.99£7.25First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.Book... -
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure... -
Poems 1959 - 2009 by Frederick Seidel 9780374532192
RRP: £15.99£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532192Author Frederick SeidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 509Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Professor Gregory Orr 9781556592294
RRP: £21.00£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592294Author Gregory OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems by Joan Baez 9781567928013
RRP: £18.99£12.93An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal... -
The Threshold: Poems by Iman Mersal 9780374607852
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374607852Author Iman MersalFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780140449112
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one... -
Wrong Norma: ‘I would read anything she wrote’ Susan Sontag by Anne Carson 9781787332355
RRP: £14.99£11.35Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'Effortlessly readable and - a word critics don't often use about her - fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' TEJU COLEAs...