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In Parenthesis by David Jones
RRP: £14.99£9.80In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying... -
Lights and Sounds Christmas by Sam Taplin 9781801318167
RRP: £12.99£7.41Each time you press a button in this unique novelty book, the festive lights sparkle and the carols start to play. With a heartwarming story of animal friends getting ready for the big day, this is a perfect way to get little children excited about the... -
Between us by Ruby Dhal 9781916366657
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916366657Author Ruby DhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Ruby DhalPublisher Ruby DhalDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 12mm -
Sonnets (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
RRP: £7.99£5.60Read Shakespeare's sonnets in all their brilliance-and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's sonnets accessible and enjoyable.This No Fear guide contains:The complete original textA... -
Heroides by Ovid
RRP: £10.99£7.77In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of... -
Eugene Onegin And Other Poems by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781857157390
RRP: £12.00£8.44Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large... -
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems - Bilingual Edition by C. P. Cavafy 9780691141244
RRP: £25.00£23.14C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems... -
Selected Poems by Jenny Joseph 9781852240950
RRP: £12.00£8.00Selected Poems draws on Jenny Joseph's first four collections of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), Rose in the Afternoon (1974), The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983). The poems explore the duality of existence, a track that runs... -
The Rupi Kaur Boxed Set by Rupi Kaur 9781524858162
RRP: £22.99£15.05Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Rupi Kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Global sensation and internationally renowned author - rupi kaur's milk and honey... -
Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary'Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe,... -
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Doshi 9781780371979
RRP: £10.99£7.40Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is an unflinching collection of poems that weave between topics from violence against women to time and memory. Tishani Doshi's third full collection in English blends visceral power with artistic elegance, re-imagining... -
Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.' Calvin Bedient, Poetry'He is scary, but funny, but scary. You would have go back to confessional... -
The Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£11.87'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive... -
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
RRP: £13.00£9.10Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and... -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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,... -
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver 9780399563249
RRP: £31.00£19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563249Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: £10.99£7.77Horace (65-8 BC) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Horace's Odes and Epodes constitute a body of Latin poetry equalled only by Virgil's,... -
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: £11.99£7.93TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORIn this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna brings to us (out of one of history's... -
The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems by Daisy Goodwin
RRP: £15.99£11.61From the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of... -
Joy is Coming: Poems for When You Really Need Them by Various
RRP: £14.99£9.80From grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated.Whether it was written 300 years ago or in our present day, poetry provides a comforting light in the dark. Words may not always... -
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kern
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to... -
Faces of Love by Hafez
RRP: £12.99£9.09Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute... -
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786837660
RRP: £8.99£6.87Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods... -
Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £6.99£5.13`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a... -
The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer 9781556596858
RRP: £28.99£19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596858Author Tomas TranstroemerFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Iliad & Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £19.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607102120Author HomerPage Count 656Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 982gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 38mm -
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist - the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph _____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in... -
Salacia by Mari Ellis Dunning 9781912109258
RRP: £8.00£5.80In these poems, women raise their voices and subvert the age-old tales told on their behalf: Roman goddess Salacia explores her tumultuous relationship with Neptune; Gwen Ellis, the first woman hanged for witchcraft in Wales, reflects on her impending... -
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond
RRP: £9.99£7.27Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry PrizeRichard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a... -
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present by John Hollander
RRP: £10.99£7.77''A sonnet is a moment's monument,'' said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection - whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or celebration - reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight... -
Poems by Victor Teran 9780956057617
RRP: £4.00£3.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956057617Author Victor TeranPage Count 32Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney 9780571210916
RRP: £20.00£13.46Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is... -
Lord Of The Butterflies by Andrea Gibson 9781943735426
RRP: £15.99£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735426Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £11.99£8.43This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his... -
Penguin's Poems for Life by Laura Barber 9780713999617
RRP: £20.00£14.69Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: £9.99£7.11A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: £20.00£13.75George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn,... -
Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £10.99£7.77The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing lifeThis selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval,... -
Art of Escape by Mina Gorji
RRP: £9.99£6.99A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the... -
Idylls by Theocritus
RRP: £8.99£6.61'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half...