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Fires by Raymond Carver
RRP: £10.99£3.51Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the... -
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780198837688
RRP: £8.99£6.45"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with... -
Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams
RRP: £12.99£8.94A Telegraph Best New Poetry Books for Christmas 2021. Carcanet publishes several Catulluses: C.H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating... -
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott 9780571209125
RRP: £12.99£8.56A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the... -
Digest by Gregory Pardlo 9781935536505
RRP: £15.95£9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2015. Commended for IndieFab awards (Poetry) 2014. Short-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN... -
The Poem of the Cid by Rita Hamilton
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical... -
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn
RRP: £10.99£6.45When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors,... -
The Brontes and Their Poetry by Anne Crow 9780956232823
RRP: £7.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956232823Author Anne CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint CrowscapesPublisher CrowscapesWeight(grams) 224g -
Howdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon 9780571365784
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThe hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting... -
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
RRP: £12.99£9.09There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World... -
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound - exploring... -
Stop Trying to be Fantastic by Molly Naylor 9781911570844
RRP: £9.99£7.11Molly Naylor is a poet, scriptwriter, performer and director. She is the co-writer of Sky One comedy After Hours. Theatre work includes Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You (writer/performer), My Robot Heart (writer/performer) and LIGHTS! PLANETS!... -
Poems to Fix a F**ked Up World by Various Poets
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best poetry when he was in prison for 'the love that dare not speak its name'. Nelson... -
What Day Is It?: Who Gives a F*ck by Jan Brierton
RRP: £7.99£5.79POEMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS INSPIRED BY LOCKDOWN Before the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dubliner Jan was working as a freelance fashion stylist and creative director. Now, she is an experienced homeschool teacher, playground chaperone, cook, cleaner, fed-up... -
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity by Jerome McGann
RRP: £19.99£17.13A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken... -
Selected Poetry by Lord George Gordon Byron
RRP: £6.99£5.13Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the... -
Hidden Words: Collected Poems by Spike Milligan
RRP: £12.99£9.09Spike Milligan's Hidden Words: Collected Poems is an emotional, surprising collection of tender(ish) moments.The complete poems of Spike Milligan, Hidden Words consists of three individual volumes now collected together (SMALL DREAMS OF A SCORPION, OPEN... -
Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £11.99£7.21`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of... -
Enter, Fleeing by Mark Ford
RRP: £10.99£7.32Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford.Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford.About the AuthorMark Ford was born in 1962... -
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed
RRP: £25.00£17.59A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMESOut of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.Through his... -
Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them by Tess Taylor 9781635865806
RRP: £18.99£11.13This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal-an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world.Much like reading a good poem,... -
Discombobulated and Other Poems by Michelle L. L. Feltham 9781398495951
RRP: £6.99£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495951Author Michelle L. L. FelthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780486266862
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486266862Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £35.00£23.83Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf (1999) was hailed as a masterpiece, alerting readers to his extraordinary ability to tune into other poets and languages and render their work fresh and alive in his own voice. In fact, as this volume attests, from... -
Beowulf by Anonymous Anonymous
RRP: £7.99£5.79Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has been devouring warriors in the hall of the Danish King in... -
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEThe black poet would love to say his century beganWith Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actuallyIt began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors,Poetry whiners &... -
Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell 9781739220761
RRP: £10.99£7.40In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell - the bard of the underloved and overlooked - turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: £8.99£6.84The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of... -
Beowulf by Howell D. Chickering
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096220Author Howell D. ChickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)... -
Student Guide to Philip Larkin by Warren Hope 9781871551358
RRP: £11.99£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551358Author Warren HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido 9780307962034
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780307962034Author Lucie Brock-BroidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred... -
Rebel Without Applause by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £9.99£6.70Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been published in press as diverse as the the Times Literary... -
The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Dante Alighieri 9781435162068
RRP: £35.00£23.43A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, sin, damnation... -
Animal Farm by Richard Durant 9781407183992
RRP: £5.99£4.05Board: AQA Examination: English Language & Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Animal Farm by George Orwell Type: Essay Planner This book answers the question 'What do great answers look like?' with... -
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Roisin
RRP: £11.99£8.27A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, ... -
Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 9780393938371
£13.33This Norton Critical Edition includes: * Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's poetic translation of the great Anglo-Saxon epic-winner of the Whitbread Prize-along with his translator's introduction. * Detailed explanatory annotations and an introduction to... -
Beowulf: A Glossed Text by Michael Alexander
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the... -
Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings by Matsuo Basho
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806892Author Matsuo BashoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politics and reggae... -
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version by William Butler Yeats
RRP: £26.99£17.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476740881Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...