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The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King by Carolyn Forche
RRP: £12.00£8.00When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: 'There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we... -
The Shutters by Ahmed Bouanani 9780811227841
RRP: £12.99£10.25The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections-"The Shutters" and "Photograms"-by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani... -
Mod Lib Selected Poetry William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: £18.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759413Author William WordsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)... -
Spectral Realms No. 8 by Author S T Joshi 9781614982197
RRP: £10.00£8.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982197Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Best Canadian Poetry 2022 by John Barton
RRP: £12.99£8.63Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781771964999Author John BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint BiblioasisPublisher Biblioasis -
Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. A Bilingual English-Russian Edition by Osip Mandelstam 9781644697177
RRP: £17.99£15.01Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of... -
The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson 9780819212054
RRP: £6.99£5.46A pocket-sized illustrated version of the Francis Thompson's classic poem, "The Hound of Heaven."Book InformationISBN 9780819212054Author Francis ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Church Publishing Inc -
The North End of Eden by Christine De Luca
RRP: £8.99£6.60A polar projection changes foo we figure oot wir world. Shetland isna banished tae a box i da Moray Firt or left oot aa tagidder - ta scale up da rest - but centre stage. Christine De Luca's poetry creates a sense of the beauty and spareness of... -
Hot Strawberries by Ron Graves 9780993407536
RRP: £12.99£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993407536Author Ron GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint LEB BooksPublisher TMB Books -
The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye 9781942683735
RRP: £12.99£8.63"A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation." -Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019 Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in... -
What am I Doing Here?: More Poems by Liz Cowley 9781903071274
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071274Author Liz CowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light by Marge Piercy
RRP: £23.00£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317938Author Marge PiercyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Early Poems by May Sarton 9780393306354
RRP: £13.50£11.02"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... -
Signs Round a Dead Body by Deryn Rees-Jones 9781854112415
RRP: £6.95£5.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112415Author Deryn Rees-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g -
Ten Modern Arab Poets by Desmond, O'grady 9781904556435
RRP: £10.00£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556435Author Desmond O'GradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 120g -
Desert Air: Arabia, Deserts and the Orient of the Imagination by Barnaby Rogerson 9781906011055
RRP: £5.99£4.40A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers. This collection of poems delights in constructing a sensual Orient of the imagination, from the seven golden odes of Pre-Islamic Arabia to the fevered visions of... -
Ovid by Carole E. Newlands 9781848859302
£22.01Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy. Carole Newlands introduces her subject as an ancient... -
Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy
RRP: £14.99£9.88Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this... -
Injun by Jordan Abel
RRP: £12.99£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry 2017 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889229778Author Jordan AbelFormat... -
Gap Gardening: Selected Poems by Rosmarie Waldrop 9780811225144
RRP: £14.99£12.51Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and... -
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins 9780822956709
£13.52Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt... -
The Tormented Mirror by Russell Edson 9780822957638
RRP: £15.00£11.06This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical... -
Some things to laugh, cry or talk about by Beverley Gordon 9781915067395
RRP: £7.99£6.39"We are told there was a time when men were men and women were women You know men dressed in bowler hats or whatever hats of their choice And fine suits And the ladies too, along with their fine modest dresses No hair out of place ..." From... -
Ocharlyie's Rhymes from the Niger: A Collection of Nursery Rhymes for the Nigerian Child by Oribi Charles 9781491890479
RRP: £13.99£13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491890479Author Oribi CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *... -
I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 9780520246027
RRP: £25.00£19.59Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style - its delicate, meticulous observation, great... -
Silent in Finisterre by Jane Griffiths
RRP: £9.95£6.78The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by name, in incantation, or described in ways that recapture their irreducible reality to a child for whom they are the totality of the world, they become a... -
Best of Manchester Poets, Volume 2 by Cathy Bryant 9780956581938
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956581938Author Cathy BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint PuppywolfPublisher PuppywolfWeight(grams) 230g -
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Volume 6 (English translation) by Jelaluddin Rumi 9780906094105
£18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094105Author Jalalu'ddin RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 529Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £88.00£69.75W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier... -
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams 9780811209991
RRP: £40.99£39.14So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.About the AuthorBesides being a practicing... -
Bright Felon by Kazim Ali 9780819572769
RRP: £11.95£9.82This groundbreaking, transgenre work-part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past-is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details... -
In a Bucolic Land by Szilard Borbely
RRP: £14.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375915Author Szilard BorbelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
I Praise My Destroyer: Poems by Diane Ackerman 9780679771340
RRP: £11.78£8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771340Author Diane AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113g -
Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination by Peter S. Hawkins 9780804737012
RRP: £29.99£26.90This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"-the... -
The Poetry of Tahirih by Hatcher 9780853984603
£26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853984603Author HatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint George RonaldPublisher George Ronald PublisherWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Pure Hustle by Kate Potts
RRP: £8.95£6.18Pure Hustle is concerned with imagination - as a means of escape and of illumination, as destructive and redemptive. Its finely honed urban landscapes are shot through with myth, storytelling and the lure of transformation. Kate Potts' poems are tightly... -
Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition by L. Lewisohn 9780755602551
£34.63Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece "Mantiq al-tayr", or "The Conference of Birds", his verse is still considered to be the... -
Born In A Second Language by Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie
RRP: £15.99£9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735921Author Akosua Afiriyie-HwedieFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
Now Do You Know Where You Are by Dana Levin
RRP: £19.00£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596339Author Dana LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
The Odes by Pindar 9780520300002
RRP: £16.99£13.65One of the most celebrated poets of the classical world, Pindar wrote odes for athletes that provide a unique perspective on the social and political life of ancient Greece. Commissioned in honor of successful contestants at the Olympic games and other...