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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by Joy Harjo
RRP: £15.99£14.24United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into one momentous volume. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this... -
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781316615454
£16.43Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested... -
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
RRP: £10.99£7.77`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud... -
Mountain Breezes by Amy Carmichael 9780875087894
RRP: £16.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875087894Author Amy CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint CLC PublicationsPublisher CLC PublicationsWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho 9780241382615
RRP: £14.99£10.95In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed... -
A Treasury of Rumi's Wisdom by Muhammad Isa Waley 9781847741028
RRP: £10.99£7.38The time has come to reveal more of Rumi than the inaccurate portrayal of a new age guru. With careful selections from his work and accompanying commentaries this book will bring readers closer to his poetry's true, traditional meaning. -- "Everyone has,... -
The Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
RRP: £12.99£9.09Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life. Few people realise that it was written in 1927 by the... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
£10.471988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
RRP: £12.00£8.00In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family - the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes - all from Asian American, immigrant and queer perspectives. Holding all... -
The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Down at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Belief was in the air. Then the soldiers ceased fire and the magic of Christmas took hold . . .Carol Ann... -
Slave Song by David Dabydeen 9781845230043
RRP: £7.99£5.69"Slave Song" is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean/Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen as a... -
The She Book by Tanya Markul 9781524851064
RRP: £9.99£6.41The She Book is a collection of 107 poems and prose written for you. Because this is your year to live the life of your dreams, to heal, to witness, to be the one who queens. Once a silent star in the sky, lost, alone and unnoticed, she began to dream... -
Alice Walker: Living by the Word by Alice Walker
RRP: £8.99£6.80'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMESLiving by the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.In her own immaculate prose, Alice... -
Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition by Omid Safi
RRP: £16.99£14.61This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful... -
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £10.99£7.25Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen. This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat,"... -
Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Gaby Morgan
RRP: £8.99£6.60A refreshed cover edition of Gaby Morgan's Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year, the bestselling poetry anthology with over a quarter of a million copies sold. This anthology is perfect for sharing with the all the family - it contains a poem for... -
Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi by Mahmood Jamal
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed... -
One Thousand Gifts 10th Anniversary Edition: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp
RRP: £20.00£15.90In this beautiful tenth anniversary edition of her bestselling book,?New York Times?bestselling author Ann Voskamp invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative journey of chronicling God's gifts and grace. With more than 1.5... -
Selected Poems by Denise Riley
RRP: £14.99£10.95Denise Riley has pursued her singular path with a determined disregard for poetic fashion: a poet of immense musical gifts and formal skill, as happy in traditional forms as experimental, her non-alignment with any 'tribe' has led to a rich and various... -
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik 9780718075866
RRP: £20.00£14.69Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik's divinely inspired artwork firsthand.Akiane's nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight... -
Poems for When You Can't Find the Words: A comforting collection from Irish Hospice Foundation by Mary Shine Thompson
RRP: £15.99£11.61From Irish Hospice Foundation, who so compassionately provide end-of-life and bereavement care, this collection provides the gift of words at a time when words can be hard to find and is designed to speak to the fears and concerns that illness and... -
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
RRP: £12.99£9.09**WINNER OF THE 2022 FELTRINELLI INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE ** 'One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for stars.' Sebastian BarryMichael Longley's new collection... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143106296
RRP: £14.99£10.95Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold more than a million copies and become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil's Aeneid to a... -
Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage 9781907587306
RRP: £15.00£10.96The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. The terrain bears the deep scars of industrial exploitation, as well as those less obvious: the signs... -
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
RRP: £8.99£6.45Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and... -
Loss by David Harsent
RRP: £10.99£7.32The city never sleeps silence would weaken itwhen all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum ofmachinery dark undertone.It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by... -
De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £3.99£2.87With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross... -
Where Is My Home?: Selected Short Poems Of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781911475651
RRP: £4.99£4.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911475651Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackImprint Paper + InkPublisher Momentum Books -
The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: £9.99£7.11'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric... -
Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by Zondervan
RRP: £10.99£9.59Everyone goes through difficult seasons, tough losses, and moments that feel unbearable. In today's world, people thirst more than ever for reassurance and guidance. Streams in the Desert provides a river of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration to... -
The Flame by Leonard Cohen 9781786893130
RRP: £22.00£14.71THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRYTHESE POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS ARE THE LAST WORD FROM THE LATE, GREAT LEONARD COHENThe Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and writings, selected and... -
Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist 9781555976354
RRP: £14.99£10.36In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new colour. Through the lens of an iconic moment, the Annunciation of an unsettling angel to a young woman, Szybist describes the confusion and even terror of moments in... -
Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £10.99£7.97This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The Introduction sets the scene for the reader unfamiliar with Lucan and explores his relationship with earlier writers of Latin... -
Memorial by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99£8.56Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve... -
The Collected Poetry by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £29.00£26.93This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Cesaire's poetry - the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook - will remain the definitive Cesaire in English.About the... -
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
RRP: £10.99£7.77This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads,... -
Tools of the Trade: Poems for New Doctors by Doctor John Gillies
RRP: £6.99£4.84Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry, Tools of the Trade, as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort... -
Poems by Wang Wei
RRP: £10.99£7.77Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his belief in a whole natural order, and his delicately... -
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
RRP: £11.99£8.00Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in TranslationTranslated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet... -
The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort
RRP: £12.99£9.09*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION*'A raw, tender, potent collection' - JESSICA ANDREWS'Gorgeous poems - profound, exploratory, wild, playful - and completely now' - RUTH PADEL________The brilliant new collection from T.S. Eliot...