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The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes by Denise Levertov
RRP: £10.99£9.92The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.About the AuthorDenise Levertov... -
Funeral Readings and Poems by Becky Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.51To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the... -
Here is the Beehive: Shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year in the AN Post Irish Book Awards by Sarah Crossan
RRP: £8.99£7.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours? For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel... -
Dear Motherhood: A collection of real, raw and romantic poetry and prose about the big little love story that is early motherhood by Emma Heaphy 9780473568726
RRP: £16.79£14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473568726Author Emma HeaphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Emma HeaphyPublisher Emma HeaphyWeight(grams) 148g -
Take Off Your Brave: The World through the Eyes of a Preschool Poet by Nadim .
RRP: £7.99£5.60A very special collection of poems by a four-year-old author, illustrated with wit and whimsy by Yasmeen Ismail.Everybody has love.Even baddies.The poems in this book beautifully capture how a four-year-old sees the world - a world of rainbows, glitter... -
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima 9780995716261
RRP: £13.99£9.59By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During... -
Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland by Edna Longley
RRP: £12.00£8.00This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic's argument or to illustrate a... -
[...] by Fady Joudah 9781738412570
RRP: £11.99£8.29Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. Fady Joudah is the author of six previous collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short... -
Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £7.99£5.79Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number... -
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £12.99£8.32A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't... -
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £14.99£10.95A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of... -
Selected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: £9.99£7.11Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and his celebratory later verse, 'To... -
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in... -
A Moonless Night by Henry Normal 9781739623159
RRP: £10.00£7.59A Moonless Night was written between December 2022 and December 2023. "Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance."About the AuthorHenry Normal founded the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the... -
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition by Dylan Thomas 9780811218818
RRP: £12.99£10.25The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was... -
The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations by Steve Taylor
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687121Author Steve TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Moder Dy: Polygon New Poets by Roseanne Watt
RRP: £10.99£7.32Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell... -
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
RRP: £10.99£8.94Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections... -
The Major Works by Alexander Pope
RRP: £11.99£8.43This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together with... -
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
RRP: £7.99£5.79A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it in The Lady magazine in 1998. Her charming... -
Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations by Miroslav Holub
RRP: £25.00£16.78Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with... -
The Raven and Other Selected Poems (Collins Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' "...Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." ' This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's... -
Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book by Ana Sampson 9781529058994
RRP: £14.99£10.95Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book is a beautiful gift hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the... -
Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002 by Maura Dooley
RRP: £8.95£6.42Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam... -
Weep Not for Me: In Memory of a Beloved Cat by Constance Jenkins
RRP: £8.99£6.45The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet's death, complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien's etchings... -
Winter Stars by Larry Levis 9780822953685
RRP: £19.50£10.25Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless... -
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
RRP: £7.99£6.19This title includes all of Burns' poems and songs, with a helpful glossary explaining difficult words, a chronology of Burns's life and a bibliography.Book InformationISBN 9781849342322Author Robert BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Waverley... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9781857151831
RRP: £20.00£14.69This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - INFERNO, PURGATORIO and PARADISO - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted... -
The Vanishing Song by Jay Hulme 9781786225252
RRP: £10.99£8.94In The Vanishing Song, trans Christian poet Jay Hulme goes in search of what is all but lost in contemporary faith, the 'beautiful and holy and wild' way of the saints, and the alluring, perplexing mystery of the places they chose for themselves -... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £12.99£9.09A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple... -
Come Close by Sappho
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Yes, we did many things, then - allBeautiful ...'Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and... -
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi 9781914221057
£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221057Author Lola OlufemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press -
Lurex by Denise Riley
RRP: £10.99£7.77A brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language. This is at once a sharply political and deeply personal book which explores just that intersection.'Wide-ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
RRP: £12.99£8.56Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic... -
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey
RRP: £16.99£11.48Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Robert M. Durling 9780195087451
RRP: £15.99£13.23The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown
RRP: £16.99£12.68Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
The Harpole Report by J. L. Carr 9781904016069
£9.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sincerely, by F.S. Yousaf 9781771681926
RRP: £11.99£7.59"Sincerely is passionate. Honest. Charming. F. S. Yousaf has beautifully encapsulated in a book what it feels like to fall in love."-Madisen Kuhn, author of Almost HomeFans of top-selling Sincerely are saying "unexpected perfection", "not your basic... -
The Air Year by Caroline Bird
RRP: £9.99£6.99Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian...