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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: £12.00£8.44Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of... -
Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: £12.00£8.00Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in... -
Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: £9.99£7.11Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and... -
Came the Lightening, Came the Light: Twenty Poems for George by Olivia Harrison
RRP: £25.00£16.73'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' - Olivia Harrison Olivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems... -
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never... -
The Threshold: Poems by Iman Mersal 9780374607852
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374607852Author Iman MersalFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
Wrong Norma: ‘I would read anything she wrote’ Susan Sontag by Anne Carson 9781787332355
RRP: £14.99£11.35Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'Effortlessly readable and - a word critics don't often use about her - fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' TEJU COLEAs... -
Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku by Aya Kusch
RRP: £9.99£7.00No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely... -
The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen by Gillian Clarke 9780571352128
RRP: £12.99£8.56The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition.The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the... -
When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems by Joan Baez 9781567928013
RRP: £18.99£12.93An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal... -
Natural Burial Ground by Will Burns 9781472158062
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max PorterIn his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores his deep interest in place and the natural world to excavate the emotional impact... -
Poems 1959 - 2009 by Frederick Seidel 9780374532192
RRP: £15.99£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532192Author Frederick SeidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 509Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure... -
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson 9781784879020
RRP: £9.99£7.11This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls... -
The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield 9781780376790
RRP: £14.99£9.80Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise... -
This is Yarrow by Tara Bergin 9781847772367
RRP: £9.95£6.97The poems in Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous... -
Grief Lessons: Four Plays By Euripi by Euripides
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172537Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm)... -
Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
RRP: £12.99£11.73"Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain... -
Dream Police by Dennis Cooper
RRP: £12.99£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134578Author Dennis. CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Dangling in the Tournefortia by Charles Bukowski
£12.84There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.Book InformationISBN... -
In Queen Mary's Gardens by Tom Morgan 9780948339806
RRP: £4.95£3.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948339806Author Tom MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Salmon Publishing LtdPublisher Salmon Poetry -
Breathing the Water by Denise Levertov 9780811210270
RRP: £9.99£9.57Arranged in seven parts and culminating in the superb "The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich," Breathing the Water draws the readers deep into spiritual domains--not in order to leave the world behind, but to reanimate our sometimes dormant love for it... -
The Sunshine Kid by Harry Baker
RRP: £8.99£6.34When Harry Baker first started writing rap infused poetry he was advised to "write about what you know" so instead of writing about killing people, or driving fast cars (over people), he wrote about mathematics.It is not all complex maths and algebra... -
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart 9780241611289
RRP: £14.99£10.95The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy: the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved seriesAfter the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope... -
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux
RRP: £12.99£8.63Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we----with the great visionary Michaux as our guide----are... -
You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.Book InformationISBN 9780876856833Author Charles BukowskiFormat... -
The Kids by Hannah Lowe 9781780375793
RRP: £10.99£7.32Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised portraits of 'The Kids', the students she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child... -
Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees
RRP: £12.99£8.56Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.Modernism's lost masterpiece.About the AuthorHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists... -
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Literary Award (Translation) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781935744016Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
The Duck Who Didn't Like Water by Steve Small
RRP: £7.99£5.23'A wonderful, tender evocation of friendship and how its power can help you overcome your worst fears. A pure splash of joy.' The Daily MailShortlisted for Oscar's Book Prize 2022Duck is not like other ducks. Duck doesn't like water and is perfectly fine... -
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in... -
A Memo for Spring: 50th Anniversary Edition by Liz Lochhead
RRP: £10.00£6.71This is an exclusive limited edition with a preface by Liz Lochhead and a new introduction by Ali Smith. Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut collection, published in 1972, was a landmark publication... -
The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry
RRP: £8.99£6.45I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free... -
Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller 9781847772671
RRP: £9.95£6.97WINNER OF THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the... -
The Butterfly House by Kathryn Bevis 9781781727553
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727553Author Kathryn BevisFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 150g -
Learning to Sleep by John Burnside
RRP: £10.00£7.12Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four... -
The Moon on My Tongue: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English by Ben Styles 9781911469032
RRP: £11.99£8.29From both revered, established writers and exciting contemporary poets, the work in this anthology offers a broad picture of Maori poetry written in English. The encounter between Maori writers and the English language has been one of creativity and... -
Milk Fever by Megan Ross 9780620792271
RRP: £16.50£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620792271Author Megan RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint UhlangaPublisher UhlangaWeight(grams) 122g -
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis 9781933517414
RRP: £9.99£6.75A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous. If... -
Indelible Miraculous by Julia Darling
RRP: £10.99£7.64This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling's death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: "The poems are funny, irreverent, moving and never sentimental. You can recognise yourself in...