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Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings by Christine Alexander
RRP: £12.99£9.09'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories,... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost in Plain English by Professor John Milton 9780963962157
RRP: £13.30£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963962157Author Professor John MiltonFormat PaperbackImprint New Arts LibraryPublisher New Arts LibraryWeight(grams) 513g -
Arthurian Romances by Chretien
RRP: £14.99£11.54Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous... -
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte
RRP: £18.00£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573229142Author David WhyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Poems: (2015) third edition by J. H. Prynne
RRP: £25.00£17.38J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through... -
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings by Ferdowsi 9781631494468
RRP: £99.99£85.75Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long battles. Written over 1,000 years... -
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £9.99£8.05'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes... -
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £14.99£9.70'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an... -
Balladz by Sharon Olds 9781787334229
RRP: £12.00£8.44Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Sharon Olds is a force of nature... -
Doomstead Days by Brian Teare 9781643620022
RRP: £12.99£8.63WINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD Doomstead Days is a lyrical series of... -
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 9780571328802
RRP: £14.99£10.20Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets.The... -
Iona by Kenneth Steven 9780861538300
RRP: £15.99£14.95In this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan - but there is much more to this wonderful book than a simple description... -
Love & Poetry by Atticus
RRP: £16.99£11.54From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars, and The Truth About Magic comes LVOE., a dazzling new journey into the great unknown by Atticus. Featuring over 250 brand new poems, this sees Atticus take his readers... -
The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £10.99£7.25Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven 'essays' by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this new paperback... -
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden
RRP: £9.99£6.15In this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing 20 nationalities and ranging in age from... -
Omeros by Derek Walcott
RRP: £17.99£12.20A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African... -
How to burn a woman by Claire Askew
RRP: £10.99£7.40Claire Askew's electrifying second collection is an investigation of power: the power of oppressive systems and their hold over those within them; the power of resilience; the power of the human heart. It licks flame across the imagination, and rewrites... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: £11.99£10.94"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the... -
Ten Poems for a Wedding by Kathryn Bevis 9781913627232
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627232Author Kathryn BevisFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Dan Leighton
RRP: £14.99£9.80Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi... -
Poems on Nature by Various
RRP: £10.99£7.51The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with... -
Our Last Awakening: Poems in the Face of Death by Janet Morley
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Bring us, Lord our God, at our last awakening, into the house and gate of heaven...' John Donne's prayer speaks of the hope and promise of a life with God that embraces us beyond death as well as during our time on earth. However, people of faith... -
My Heart's In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems by John Glenday
RRP: £10.99£7.00My Heart's In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious celebration of poetry and verse by the greatest classic Scottish poets, and introduced by the acclaimed poet John Glenday.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,... -
Jumpstart! Poetry: Games and Activities for Ages 7-12 by Pie Corbett
RRP: £16.99£15.22A good poetry idea should help the children feel excited about writing and enable them to think of what to write - developing their imagination, creativity and writing skills. Jumpstart! Poetry is about involving children as creative writers through... -
The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic by Gil Fronsdal 9781611805994
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805994Author Gil FronsdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pope
RRP: £6.99£5.13Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21... -
Persian Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: £12.00£8.44Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: £13.99£10.15This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to... -
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
RRP: £10.99£9.37A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian... -
The Terrorist at My Table by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: £12.99£8.60An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: £18.99£15.12When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a... -
Dylan Thomas: Everyman Poetry by Dylan Thomas
RRP: £6.99£5.00Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas's poems are visions of creation and morality.A collection of Dylan Thomas's most beloved poems.About the AuthorDylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales, is... -
On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell 9781350248359
RRP: £12.99£11.09'The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember. A handbook written from the heart by one of the true modern masters of the craft.' Simon Armitage A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from... -
Poems: 1968-2020 by Nikki Giovanni 9780241516447
RRP: £12.99£9.09A major new career-spanning selection from one of the world’s foremost poets, an international treasure, from 1968 to the present day Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the... -
Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99£6.70Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of... -
One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £17.99£15.90"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual... -
Here by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: £10.99£7.25This is an exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marvelled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators... -
Rapture's Road: From the author of All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt 9781787334274
RRP: £13.00£9.10In this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland'Points to a bright future for Irish poetry' SUNDAY TIMES'An exquisitely calm and insightful... -
Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: £14.99£9.80Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS). This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent... -
Physical by Andrew McMillan
RRP: £12.00£8.44*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of...