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Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War by George L. Hart 9780691608457
RRP: £30.00£23.29The poems of ancient Tamil are one of India's most important contributions to world literature. Presented here in English translation is a selection of roughly three hundred poems from five of the earliest poetic anthologies of classical Tamil literature... -
Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014 by Pierre Chappuis
RRP: £20.50£17.38One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. Like Bits... -
Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder by Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew M Gorey
RRP: £77.00£69.99Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy. In Atomism in the Aeneid,... -
On Walking On by Cole Swensen 9781937658663
RRP: £12.99£8.63On Walking On looks outward onto-or rather, walks through-the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walkers is striking, and the connection goes back to... -
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: POEMS by Lorna Goodison
RRP: £17.99£15.90Writing in The Hudson Review, David Mason has characterized Lorna Goodison's work as a "revelation to me, much of it beautiful for its simple negotiation of the line between life and art." One of the most distinguished ... -
Life without: Selected Poetry and Prose by Tatiania Shcherbina
RRP: £8.95£6.18Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as 'one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry' (Kommersant'). In her recent work the elegant and ironic narrator meditates on love, disappointment and loss against the backdrop of Russia's... -
Love's Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation by Andrew Frisardi 9781621385615
RRP: £17.50£17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385615Author Andrew FrisardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Filthy Quiet by Kate Noakes 9781912681020
RRP: £8.99£7.46In her most autobiographical collection to date, Kate Noakes explores the pain of losing a long-built life and the joys of exploring a new one. This is a howl that ends with a hallelujah.Press and Events: Book launch planned at the Poetry Cafe,... -
ViVa by E. E. Cummings 9780871401694
RRP: £9.99£7.71First published in 1931, ViVa contains four of E. E. Cummings' most experimental poems as well as some of his most memorable. The volume includes such no-famous celebrations as "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "if there are any heavens my mother will... -
War Paint by Patrick D Hart 9780692936078
RRP: £12.99£8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692936078Author Patrick D HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Rad Press PublishingPublisher Rad Press PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)... -
Precocious by Adam Lowe 9781907133336
RRP: £6.99£5.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907133336Format PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Dog Horn PublishingPublisher Dog Horn PublishingWeight(grams) 80g -
Train River Poetry: Winter 2020 by Train River 9781953597021
RRP: £9.99£8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953597021Author Train RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Train River PublishingPublisher Train River PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)... -
Samarang Hotel by John Webb 9781912049868
RRP: £8.99£6.20Julian Lockhardt, the bombastic, heavy-drinking expat manager of the Samarang Hotel - the most prestigious hotel in Vientiane - is short on self-awareness, long on self-pity, and society, so he believes, has failed him. He is easily seduced by Asia's... -
Complicity by Tom Sastry 9781910367704
RRP: £7.50£5.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367704Author Tom SastryFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 65g -
Ice Memory: Selected Poems by Joachim Sartorius 9781857548327
RRP: £12.95£8.91"Ice Memory" is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach, whose poems, full of sound and light, documenting the wealth... -
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems) by Alice Walker
RRP: £11.99£8.00In this luminous collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker casts her eye on history, politics and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem and the Dalai Lama, she reminds readers of the... -
The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience by Ann Lauterbach 9780143037378
RRP: £24.00£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037378Author Ann LauterbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 251gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Catching the Cascade by Paul Lyalls 9781905233281
£6.01In 'Catching the Cascade', his long awaited debut collection, Paul Lyalls presents verse that documents his long career as a performing poet, exploring the motifs of childhood, love, consumerism, second hand cars and his native North. His punchy,... -
The Unknowable: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Metaphysics by W. J. Mander 9780198809531
RRP: £87.00£79.31W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration of, and differing reactions to, the concept of the unknowable or unconditioned, first developed by Sir William Hamilton in the 1829. The... -
Omnesia (remix) W. N. Herbert 9781852249694
RRP: £9.95£6.78'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions,... -
Flood Season by Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr
£4.22After over a decade working as a musician under the name Kae Sun, Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr. makes a full-blooded return to the bones of his craft - poetic exploration and wordplay. His debut pamphlet, Flood Season, begins with seeds of perennial flooding,... -
Dome of the Hidden Pavilion: New Poems by James Tate
RRP: £12.99£10.36Capturing his inimitable voice-provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at once-the poems in Dome of the Hidden Pavilion demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering... -
Jane Kenyon Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon 9781555974787
RRP: £17.99£11.23Jane Kenyon is one of America's best loved poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favourite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print and is already considered a... -
The Enemy's Country: Words, Contexture, and other Circumstances of Language by Geoffrey Hill 9780198112167
£39.53Geoffrey Hill is University Professor at Boston University. He holds an honorary D. Litt. from the University of Leeds and is an Honorary Fellow of both Keble College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Amongst many other recognitions of his work as... -
The Water Steps by William Palmer 9780995638846
RRP: £9.95£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995638846Author William PalmerFormat PaperbackImprint Rack PressPublisher Rack Press -
Chinese Voices: Classical Poetry Zu-yan Chen 9781787553057
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Chinese poetic tradition, which dates back to almost 1,000 B.C., is one of the most cherished parts of the nation's cultural heritage. This collection of translated classical poems are a stunning chronicle of Chinese life, culture and history, and... -
Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018 by Gerald Stern 9781324002338
RRP: £20.99£17.16For five decades, Gerald Stern has been writing his own brand of expansive, deep-down American poetry. Now in his nineties, this "sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary" (Edward Hirsch) engages a lifetime of memories in his poems, blending... -
Call and Response by Rachel Spence
RRP: £5.00£3.76Call and Response is a sequence of sonnets from the perspective of a daughter, addressed to her mother during her mother's illness. Hard-edged yet tender, the poems explore the darker side of familial bonds and the strange ways suffering can heal old... -
Pagan Virtues: Poems by Stephen Dunn
RRP: £12.99£9.64In this meditative and incisive collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems... -
Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams 9780811226660
RRP: £11.99£10.15Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press, Al Que Quiere! was William Carlos Williams's breakthrough book and contains some of his best-loved poems ("Tract," "Apology," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "January Morning," and "Smell!"), as well as a... -
Karen Green - Bough Down by Karen Green
RRP: £32.00£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938221019Author Karen GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Siglio PressPublisher Siglio Press -
The Life of Padma: Volume 2 by Svayambhudeva
RRP: £29.95£23.66The first English translation of the oldest extant work in Apabhramsha, a literary language from medieval India, recounting the story of the Ramayana.The Life of Padma, or the Paumacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha language... -
Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure by Richard Gwyn 9781781724583
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724583Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Controlling the Silver by Lorna Goodison
RRP: £14.99£13.41Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex... -
Prague with Fingers of Rain: Selected Poems Vitezslav Nezval 9781852248161
RRP: £9.95£6.78Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century. "Prague with Fingers of Rain" is his classic 1936 collection in which Prague's many-sided life - its glamorous history, various weathers, different kinds... -
Change (will do you good) by Gail Rudd Entrekin 9780971400344
RRP: £11.50£8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971400344Author Gail Rudd EntrekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Poetic Matrix PressPublisher Poetic Matrix PressWeight(grams) 122g -
Imaginary Menagerie Ailbhe Darcy 9781852249014
RRP: £8.95£6.18Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent dispatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor than by wild conceits, semantic leaps,... -
Absence Has a Weight of Its Own by Daniel Sluman 9780957098466
RRP: £8.99£6.34Read three sample poems for free - just click the Extracts tab above.Daniel Sluman's Absence Has a Weight of Its Own is an unflinching study of serious illness, sex, death and decadence. In sometimes brutal and spare cadences, Sluman explores the... -
To be a Father by Wendi Momen 9780853984597
£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853984597Author Wendy MomenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint George RonaldPublisher George Ronald Publisher -
Alone Vol. 13: The Striped Souls by Fabien Vehlmann 9781800440685
RRP: £7.99£6.05Even as his friends seem finally on the verge of being reunited after all their adventures, the time has come for Dodzi to regain his freedom. He must first pass the test prepared by his kidnapper, the Mad Master: an obstacle course with, perhaps, at the...