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Lifesaving Poems by Anthony Wilson
RRP: £12.00£8.00Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more? Lifesaving... -
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton 9780811218511
RRP: £11.99£9.34Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic... -
From the Rocking Chair: A collection of motherhood poetry and prose by Jessica L Driscoll 9780645330502
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645330502Author Jessica L DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint From the Rocking ChairPublisher From the Rocking ChairWeight(grams) 254g -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: £9.99£6.99Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2018 Pigott... -
Introducing George The Poet: Search Party: A Collection of Poems by George the Poet
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The title is Search Party - the idea being that we're all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.' A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a... -
Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird 9781800171862
RRP: £12.99£8.94Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has... -
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £16.99£11.58W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume... -
The Seasons of Life: A Companion for the Poetic Journey by Hermann Hesse
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175061Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Selected Poems by Don Paterson
RRP: £16.99£11.58Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the... -
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Willis Barnstone 9780811204491
RRP: £11.99£10.15Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the... -
Selected Poetry by John Donne
RRP: £8.99£6.45John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'... -
Iona: Poems by Kenneth Steven 9781640606302
RRP: £15.00£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640606302Author Kenneth StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Be the Light: Words to Inspire Gratitude, Hope and Happiness by Cailin Hargreaves 9781801292825
RRP: £12.99£8.60If you do not release yourself from what has gone how will you hold onto what is coming?Let go of the things that let you go.An inspirational contemporary collection of words, prose and illustrations providing short, thought-provoking daily prompts for... -
Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this, her first poetry collection since the award-winning Countries of the Body, Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time. These new poems are... -
The The Past Is a Dangerous Driver: Poems by Neal Mason
RRP: £10.00£9.62The poems in The Past Is a Dangerous Driver is inspired by Neal Mason's fascination with the past, not only in the way it exists as general history but also as it is formed by one's own personal recollection. Through his poems, Neil links the past to... -
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083934
RRP: £9.99£6.87The enchanting festive poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and adorned with sumptuous illustrations by artist Margaux Carpentier, Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water is the perfect festive gift for the poetry lover in... -
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£9.31"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.About the AuthorAdrienne... -
Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman by John Betjeman
RRP: £16.99£11.27A charming new collection of previously unpublished and uncollected poems by Sir John Betjeman. John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation... -
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman 9781913159658
RRP: £20.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159658Author A. E. HousmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 691gDimensions(mm) 246mm *... -
Metamorphosis by Ovid
RRP: £9.99£7.11Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously... -
The School Bag by Ted Hughes
RRP: £18.99£13.23A companion to The Rattle Bag, The School Bag is an engaging and authoritative selection for the classroom.Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have chosen an eclectic range of poets read in today's schools, but also those poems that the editors themselves read... -
The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman McCaig by Norman MacCaig
RRP: £12.99£8.56First published in 2010 to mark the centenary of Norman MacCaig's birth, The Many Days aims to strike a balance between representing the much-loved poems that any reader would expect to find in a selected MacCaig, and other less familiar verses. The... -
The Nearer You Stand: Poems and pictures by Roger Wagner 9781786222220
RRP: £12.99£11.01Roger Wagner is one of the most significant Christian artists and poets working today. This collection combines his poems and paintings in pairs to explore specific places and familiar biblical narratives, inviting us to see them from new and unexpected... -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Gideon Nisbet
RRP: £11.99£8.43Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up... -
The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: £10.99£7.77This 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 Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems,... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: £25.00£18.20Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the... -
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova 9781852247652
RRP: £9.95£6.78Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost... -
Between Mountain and Sea: Poems From Assynt by Norman MacCaig
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It is... -
Rumi Illustrated by Rumi
RRP: £29.99£19.92Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a selection of his many poems with a variety of themes,... -
Mother / Line by Ankita Saxena
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917340Author Ankita SaxenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press -
Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams 9780811202343
RRP: £12.99£10.36This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of... -
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid 9780253033598
RRP: £7.99£7.54Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before-sensuous,... -
The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters by Gustav Heldt 9780231163897
RRP: £25.00£19.59Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its... -
In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.56What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar,... -
The Complete English Poems by John Milton 9781857150971
RRP: £14.99£11.35This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical... -
Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things by Amanda Lovelace
RRP: £9.99£6.41in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems.within these pages, you will find that... -
Growlery by Katherine Horrex 9781784109899
RRP: £10.99£7.64In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VII, Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.Book InformationISBN 9781784109899Author Katherine HorrexFormat... -
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
Selected Poetry and Prose by Charlotte Mew
RRP: £16.99£11.58The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This Selected Poetry and Prose is edited... -
Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
RRP: £12.99£9.00For readers who enjoyed Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Gone are the gender stereotypes of obliging lovers,...