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Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £7.99£6.15Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
Poems Of The Sea by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: £12.00£8.44Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired... -
Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
RRP: £10.99£7.77Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods... -
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 9780872863101
RRP: £11.99£8.00The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition. Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956... -
The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry by Edited by Nicholas Zachariah Kay 9780486849287
RRP: £5.99£4.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486849287Author Edited by Nicholas Zachariah KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
RRP: £20.00£13.46An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry UnboundThis inspiring collection, edited by Padraig O Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Padraig's... -
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot 9780571351183
RRP: £12.99£8.56'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted HughesFour Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. This edition is based on the design made by Giovanni Mardersteig for his letterpress edition of 1960 and marks... -
Mappa Mundi by Philip Gross
RRP: £7.95£5.76The medieval Mappa Mundi showed the real world hedged about with wonders. Philip Gross's new poems are as vividly observed and sometimes fabulous as the traveler's tales of antiquity. Like those creatures in the margins of old maps they are hybrids of... -
The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by Penguin
RRP: £12.99£9.09Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the Romantic verses of Byron, Keats and Shelley, right through... -
Poems of Sappho by Sappho
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486817279Author Sappho SapphoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Poetry Please: Love Poems by Various Poets
RRP: £10.99£7.32'What will survive of us is love.' In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices ... -
Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction Prof Heather Clark 9780198841470
RRP: £8.99£6.61Sylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and... -
Poems for Pensioners by Andy Seed 9781908853721
£9.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853721Author Andy SeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart by Courtney Peppernell
RRP: £11.99£7.59Following the smash success of her best-selling book, Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell now returns with the follow-up sequel Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart. Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently... -
Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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,... -
Gasoline by Gregory Corso
RRP: £11.99£8.00Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and... -
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald
RRP: £9.99£6.70'This is not a play. This is a poem in several registers, set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise, which happens five times in five different forms: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various characters, some... -
The Edge of Glory - Prayers in the Celtic Tradition by David Adam
RRP: £9.99£7.26In the Celtic way of prayer the divine glory was intertwined with the ordinariness of everyday events like the patterns on carvings and illuminated gospels. The modern prayers in this book beautifully recapture that tradition. They were composed in a... -
Complete Poems: Dual Language by Guido Cavalcanti
RRP: £10.99£8.68Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in... -
Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781853264153
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson 9780141025018
RRP: £9.99£7.11A selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and playful celebrations of urban life, Johnson's use of Jamaican dialect to tackle distinctly British... -
The Art of Falling by Kim Moore 9781781722374
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722374Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham... -
Dad, the Donkey's on Fire by Ian Mcmillan
RRP: £9.95£6.97A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine equally or often on all and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but keeps... -
Don Juan by Lord Byron
RRP: £16.99£12.28Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where... -
Cairn by Daverick Leggett 9780952464051
RRP: £12.00£7.24The poems in Cairn are waymarkers and beckonings along a path through a beautiful but vanishing world. They tell of grief, wonder, love, lust and death along the way. They do what poetry does best: awaken the heart and connect us to life.Book... -
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £12.99£9.09The perfect gift for Valentine's DaySelected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy... -
What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Kim Addonizio 9780393327090
RRP: £12.99£11.46A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections and two books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius... -
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems by Lewis Carroll
RRP: £16.99£12.68'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This beautiful,... -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot 9780571247059
RRP: £14.99£9.80As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The... -
Noctuary by Niall Campbell
RRP: £9.95£6.78A noctuary is a diary for the late hours. In Niall Campbell's poems, this is a time for reflection, discovering what it means to be a young father, anxious, caring and protective, deeply connected to the new, precious life of another human being. The... -
The First Poems in English by Michael Alexander
RRP: £12.99£9.09This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: £10.99£7.77"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143105138
RRP: £14.99£14.42Robert Fagles's latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to... -
The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books... -
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem by Harold Schechter
RRP: £9.99£7.11In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the... -
Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: £7.99£7.11In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
RRP: £12.00£8.44** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ****A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY...