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The Rock: Poems by Wallace Stevens 9781640093942
RRP: £7.99£6.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093942Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 7mm -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems by Brendan Kennelly 9781930630574
RRP: £15.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630574Author Brendan KennellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)... -
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
RRP: £9.99£6.99'Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch...a 'Trinidad' being created that did not take my Trinidad away (my... -
On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman
RRP: £3.00£2.49'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
The Complaint and the Answer: Shikwa and Kawb Shikwa by Muhammed Iqbal 9789670957005
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789670957005Author Muhammed IqbalFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book Trust -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780143133582
RRP: £14.99£9.91A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to livingFirst published in the 1920's, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century,... -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his... -
Radioactive Wolves by Amy Roa 9781949540376
RRP: £15.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949540376Author Amy RoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Steel Toe BooksPublisher Steel Toe BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
The Complete Poetry by George Herbert
RRP: £12.99£10.95A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul.George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry,... -
Persephone Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer
RRP: £12.99£8.18Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical approach to self-care in her newest poetry collection, Persephone Made Me Do It. Following her previous work in this series, Mateer weaves together... -
Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £20.00£14.69This beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffy's much-celebrated festive poems.For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas,... -
The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot 9780199538867
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had... -
Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Duffy
RRP: £7.99£6.15In a gorgeous pocket-sized hardback, Another Night Before Christmas is Carol Ann Duffy's magical contemporary reworking of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore. Beautifully presented, this wonderful festive poem, illustrated with Rob Ryan's paper cut... -
Fifty Poems by T. E. Fantl 9781788309622
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788309622Author T. E. FantlFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life by William Sieghart
RRP: £9.99£6.70Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most... -
Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets by Jeet Thayil
RRP: £12.00£8.40Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the... -
Fragrance After Rain by Jaiya John 9780998780269
RRP: £23.00£19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998780269Author Jaiya JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Soul Water RisingPublisher Soul Water RisingWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz 9780374604301
RRP: £50.00£30.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374604301Author Delmore SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
Nox by Anne Carson 9780811218702
RRP: £39.99£34.58Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus "for his... -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780486272665
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272665Author Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: £10.99£7.77Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is... -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow by Alan Plater
RRP: £9.95£6.78Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this gritty musical is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre... -
Book of Matches by Simon Armitage 9780571169825
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be... -
The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £12.99£8.45From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of grief and words to soothe the soul. 'A treasure. The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and... -
Advent Street by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. In each one is a gift. You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina, poised to begin, or catch your lips moving in time... -
Moontide by Niall Campbell
RRP: £9.95£6.78Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of its winters. Quietly reflective and deftly musical,... -
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99£7.77Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and... -
The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks 9780198183266
RRP: £53.00£41.68Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Though published indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his... -
Adrian Mole: The Collected Poems by Sue Townsend
RRP: £4.99£3.80'It's really, really, really funny' David Walliams Mole Press - a brand new imprint of Penguin Books - is proud to announce the first publication of The Collected Poems of Adrian Mole to mark the author's 50TH birthday.--------------------------- 'Edgy... -
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition by Cesar Vallejo
RRP: £12.99£12.33Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles... -
Plainwater: Essays And Poetry by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.99£10.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708428Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Book of Frank by CAConrad
RRP: £10.99£7.77A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he... -
The Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho 9781573922517
RRP: £12.99£9.61Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following... -
Validate Me: A life of code-dependency by Charly Cox
RRP: £9.99£5.82'Charly is social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy' Sunday Times STYLE [Charly] is turning a new generation on to poetry' The Telegraph From the bestselling author... -
The Art of Poetry [vol.6]: Aqa Power & Conflict by Neil Bowen 9780995467125
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467125Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 227g -
The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme
RRP: £10.99£8.94Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In late 2019, his fascination with old church buildings turned into a life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in, and he was baptised in the Anglican... -
Every Word You Cannot Say by Iain Thomas 9781449495206
RRP: £9.99£6.81*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.* **I know you don't want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you're just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about... -
Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by L. B. E. Cowman
RRP: £12.99£9.09Everyone 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 Tale of the Heike by Royall Tyler 9780143107262
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic: a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. This major and groundbreaking new Penguin translation is by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji. ... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: £12.99£9.09Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems,...