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Poetry of Haitian Independence by Doris Y. Kadish 9780300195590
£59.26At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt. During the first decades of Haitian independence, a wealth of original poetry was created by the inhabitants of the former French Caribbean... -
George Mackay Brown: Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown's Orkney, the poet's lifelong home and inspiration. George Mackay Brown's concerns were the ancestral world, the communalities of work, the fables and... -
The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames 9781782277705
RRP: £8.99£6.08A NAME FROM THE PAST When Mary DeAngelo walks into Happy Doll's office, she brings with her the scent of sandalwood perfume, a whole lot of cash, and the name of his old flame: Ines Candle. LURES HAPPY INTO A TRAP Ines is living rough up in... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The... -
'We Needed Coffee but...' by Matthew Welton 9781847770028
RRP: £9.95£6.97'We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew flatter and the roads became quiet and dusk began to colour the sky, you could guess from the way we returned the radio and... -
Spaced Out by James Carter
RRP: £7.99£5.79Blast off into space and explore the galaxies with a constellation of illustrated poems about the sun, moon and stars, black holes and worm holes, asteroids and meteorites, and even weird alien life forms. From shape poems and free verse to rhymes,... -
Mylo the Dino by Alex Miarli 9781839527708
RRP: £9.99£9.61Mylo the Dino is an epic, fun and heartwarming rhyming children's book. The story follows a young, adventurous dinosaur who strays from his herd and must find his way home. But in doing so, Mylo makes a few unexpected friends along the way... and learns... -
The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Robin Robertson
RRP: £9.99£7.95Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Winner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that... -
Door into the Dark by Seamus Heaney 9780571101269
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his... -
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos 9781841598123
RRP: £12.00£8.44Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire,... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £24.99£18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607109914Author Dante AlighieriPage Count 664Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 38mm -
Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation by Bobi Jones
RRP: £14.95£10.74The Adulterer's Tongue casts a brilliant light on the world of Welsh-language poetry. Poetry has been written in Welsh for over fifteen hundred years: an ancient literature, it is also a vibrant part of the culture of modern Europe, often overlooked by... -
After You Were, I Am by Camille Ralphs 9780571384853
RRP: £12.99£8.18This extraordinary debut heralds the arrival of a major new talent.In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues... -
Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions by Robert Hethmon
RRP: £19.99£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360227Author Lee StrasbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck 9781800172951
RRP: £12.99£8.94"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Gluck's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for... -
The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs by Cyril Edwards
RRP: £11.99£8.43'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit,... -
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from... -
Nobody by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.00£8.44**WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2019**'Alice Oswald is at the height of her powers in...this electrifying new work' Observer ... -
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely... -
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99£7.55It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Michael Swanton
RRP: £18.99£13.61The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated.Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle marks the beginning of the... -
Letters Against the Firmament by Sean Bonney
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910392157Author Sean BonneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon Press -
Ten Poems for Spring by Various Authors
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598968Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden 9781784106874
RRP: £16.99£12.08To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and served... -
Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant 9781800171138
RRP: £10.99£7.64Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a... -
Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy 9781857157178
RRP: £9.99£7.11Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the short... -
V. by Tony Harrison
RRP: £9.95£6.78Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who... -
Night by Etel Adnan 9781937658533
RRP: £9.99£6.75Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.About... -
Canti: The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £10.99£8.68First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the... -
A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson 9781784106553
RRP: £12.99£8.94Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the... -
Selected Poems by Gillian Clarke
RRP: £16.99£12.47Selected Poems gathers together the best of Gillian Clarke's poetry in a single volume. National Poet of Wales, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award, Clarke is one of the best-known names in UK poetry... -
A Sinister Assassin – Last Writings, Ivry–Sur–Seine, September 1947 to March 1948 by Antonin Artaud
RRP: £12.00£10.16A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud's last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud's largely unknown final work of 1947-48, revealing... -
Now And Then by Gil Scott-Heron
RRP: £9.99£6.70Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter's lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed 'bluesologist' triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm and urgency which have distinguished Gil Scott-Heron's career.This collection of poems... -
Drift by Caroline Bergvall 9781937658205
RRP: £15.99£11.04Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century... -
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard 9781908058812
RRP: £9.99£6.99Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by... -
The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser
RRP: £10.99£7.77Poetry Book Society Wild Card Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets'It's thrilling to discover such a staggeringly self-assured debut, to feel in the unmistakable presence of The Real Thing' Kaveh AkbarThe Yemeni American poet... -
Pillow Thoughts IV: Stitching the Soul by Courtney Peppernell
RRP: £11.99£7.59The final installment in this bestselling series completes the journey that Courtney Peppernell began with Pillow Thoughts. With 600,000 copies sold across the series, Pillow Thoughts continues to inspire all who dip into Courtney's encouraging words... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: £24.99£24.17In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the... -
Her Birth by Rebecca Goss
RRP: £9.95£6.97SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In 2007 Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence... -
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £14.99£9.88The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands.Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse...