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Collected Verse Paul Valéry 9780198820321
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he... -
Poems for Stillness by Ana Sampson
RRP: £10.99£7.00A stunning anthology of poetry to create calm and peacefulness. The poems are arranged around themes of meditation, friendship, gratitude, prayers and blessings, stillness and consolation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,... -
Reading Homer: Iliad Books 16 and 18 by Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course 9780521170888
RRP: £19.99£17.61Reading Homer presents two highlights of the Iliad: Book 16, where Patroclus fights and dies, and Book 18, where Achilles grieves for him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle. It enables students who have been learning Greek for perhaps... -
The Mountain by Laura Ding-Edwards 9781912779901
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912779901Author Laura Ding-EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint That Guy's HousePublisher That Guy's HouseWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571338559
RRP: £14.99£9.80This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems.Certain... -
The Temple by George Herbert
RRP: £14.99£10.95A 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,... -
The Lais of Marie De France: With Two Further Lais in the Original Old French by Marie France
RRP: £8.99£6.45Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the... -
Collected Poems: Volume One by Henry Normal 9781838118563
RRP: £16.95£13.06Collected Poems, Vol. 1 includes all of the poems from Henry's first three titles with Flapjack Press - Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Travelling Second Class Through Hope, and Raining Upwards. Staring Directly at the Eclipse was Henry Normal's first... -
Leaving Fingerprints by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: £12.99£8.60Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror. She is also... -
I'm Not a Poet But I Write Poetry: Poems from My Autistic Mind by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay 9781477126387
RRP: £14.00£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477126387Author Tito Rajarshi MukhopadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780393925340
£18.48Ovid's epic poem-whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages-is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living... -
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms... -
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers 9780241567449
RRP: £45.00£31.81Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the... -
The Seasons Of The Soul by Hermann Hesse
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943137Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage 9781904634584
RRP: £8.95£8.06The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was... -
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £12.99£9.09Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the... -
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781857157307
RRP: £12.00£8.44Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. A major figure in the modernist movement,... -
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo 9781945588471
RRP: £16.95£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945588471Author John MurilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 145mm *... -
The Way Back Home by Courtney Peppernell
RRP: £11.99£7.59When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things-your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way... -
No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters by Anne-Marie Fyfe 9781781725177
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables That Illumine, Delight, and Inform by Rumi 9781571747464
RRP: £15.99£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747464Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co -
The Little Book of Scottish Rain by Ron Butlin
RRP: £4.99£4.34Bleeters come and bleeters go, they never, never stay - if it's not raining now more rain is on the way. It's widely reported that Eskimos have over 50 words for snow. Given the equivalent ubiquity of rain in Britain's northern climes, it is... -
Selected Poems 1908-1969 by Ezra Pound
RRP: £16.99£11.58This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393089059
RRP: £31.99£25.20The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
Healthy Love Toxic Love by Luna Sinclair 9780645545579
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645545579Author Luna SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Thought Process PublishingPublisher Thought Process PublishingWeight(grams) 150g -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780374111199
RRP: £27.00£20.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Costa Book Awards (Poetry) 1999 and Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year) 1999 and ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780374111199Author Seamus... -
The Minor Latin Poets: v. 2 by J.W. Duff
RRP: £24.95£23.39A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of ... -
Serenity by F.S. Yousaf
RRP: £9.99£6.41Soft spoken yet powerful, Serenity perfectly captures the constant battle of fear and courage that lives within us. The seeds of Serenity were planted in F.S. Yousaf's last collection of poetry, Sincerely. Struck by inspiration and overwhelmed by the... -
Being Human by Neil Astley
RRP: £12.99£9.00Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books - a world poetry... -
The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900 by Michael Schmidt 9781529434156
RRP: £10.99£7.40An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston... -
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. ... -
Wild Words: How language engages with nature: A collection of international words that describe a natural phenomenon by Kate Hodges
RRP: £9.99£6.64The book showcases 75 beautiful words evocative of the wild, from all around the world, that describe natural happenings in nature. It includes words that describe weather, or a feeling you have when in nature as well as sensory words that explain the... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a... -
Transformations by Anne Sexton
£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083435Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 455g -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: £14.99£11.35This 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 Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with a... -
Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
RRP: £10.99£7.77This first selection of Geoffrey Hill's poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill's astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, through the verset-sequence Mercian Hymns, to... -
The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard
RRP: £9.99£7.11Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would... -
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
RRP: £12.99£8.56Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the... -
Juvenal and Persius by Juvenal
RRP: £24.95£23.39Mordant verse satire.The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured in this Loeb Classical Library edition. Persius (AD 34-62) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by... -
Selected Poems by Robert Burns
RRP: £8.99£6.45This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic...