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Three Hundred Tang Poems by Peter Harris 9781841597829
RRP: £12.00£8.44These some three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)-an age in which poetry and the arts flourished-were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William, of Chartres 9781604336153
RRP: £15.99£11.25The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets!In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... -
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav 9781449489892
RRP: £11.99£7.59Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including Love & Misadventure, Lullabies, and The Universe of Us, and sets sail for a grand new adventure. This completely original collection of poetry and prose... -
The Dialogue of Two Snails by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £3.00£2.49My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silverBeautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the... -
HELL: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £14.99£9.80One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original... -
I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry 9781780376813
RRP: £12.00£8.00I Think We're Alone Now was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and... -
Dear Strong Black Woman: Letters of Nourishment and Reflection from One Strong Black Woman to Another by Jennifer Sterling 9781944134211
RRP: £15.95£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944134211Author Jennifer SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint One Idea PressPublisher One Idea PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays and Lyrics by Jim Krause 9780692760901
RRP: £11.99£9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692760901Author Carrie NewcomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Available Light PublishingPublisher Available Light PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Poetry of the Thirties by Robin Skelton
RRP: £9.99£7.11Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically... -
Oot the Windae by David Reilly 9781898169246
RRP: £9.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898169246Author David ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lindsay PublicationsPublisher Lindsay Publications -
Selected Poems by U. A. Fanthorpe
RRP: £9.99£7.11U. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity. Since her death, much of... -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love... -
Al-Mutanabbi by Margaret Larkin 9781851684069
£26.22This exhaustive and yet enthralling study considers the life and work of al-Mutanabbi (915-965), often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets. A revolutionary at heart and often imprisoned or forced into exile throughout his tumultuous... -
Invisible by Jacek Gutorow
RRP: £10.99£7.64"Invisible is a teasing title for a collection of poetry. [Wallace] Stevens, with whose work Jacek Gutorow has a deep and sustained engagement, suggested in 'The Creations of Sound', that poems should 'make the visible a little hard / To see' [...] Both... -
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage 9780571334971
RRP: £10.99£7.38Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
RRP: £15.99£12.30This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and... -
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman by Bob Kaufman 9780872867697
RRP: £14.99£12.512020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. ... this book makes a case for him as a perceptive and eccentric... -
Women in Praise of the Sacred by Jane Hirshfield 9780060925765
£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925765Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
In My Head by J M Storm
RRP: £14.00£12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322068Author J M StormFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Monarch Publishing LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)... -
FURY by David Morley 9781784109905
RRP: £10.99£7.64Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Choice Shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection FURY sees the Ted Hughes Award winner David Morley once more seeking to give imaginative voice to the natural world and to those silenced or overlooked... -
Psalms for the City: Original poetry inspired by the city by John-Paul Flintoff
RRP: £14.99£10.95The whole of life can be found in the psalms. It can also be found in our cities. Psalms for the City is a beautifully illustrated book of poetry that offers comfort, inspiration and encouragement for the heart and soul, as John-Paul Flintoff puts... -
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £10.99£7.77The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxinsHere, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American Lyric' form which makes her Forward... -
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
RRP: £12.99£8.56WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in... -
Deep Gossip by Sidney Wade 9781421437873
RRP: £16.50£12.56A great and frequently subversive book by a lyric poet at the height of her craft.Throughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, capable of the clarity and... -
Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: £12.00£8.44In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'SUNDAY... -
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963 by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £20.00£14.46Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without... -
Sonnets & Poems of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.20Shakespeare's sonnets are amongst the most admired, complex and beautiful poems ever written. This gorgeous new collection includes sonnets from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost, to create a comprehensive collection from the greatest... -
Spring Sonnets by Don Yorty 9781945023224
RRP: £19.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945023224Author Don YortyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Indolent BooksPublisher Indolent BooksWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
New Selected Poems by Denise Levertov
RRP: £15.00£9.80This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £8.99£8.13This fresh edition of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnets, developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a Foreword by the actor/director, Fiona Shaw. Its easily accessible layout and elegant design make it the ideal gift for any special... -
The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Nick Laird
RRP: £12.99£9.09'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction)In The Zoo of the New,... -
Where Now Begins by Kerry Hardie
RRP: £9.95£6.78These poems bear witness to the cycles of growth and decay that make up our lives. They are the work of a poet writing with an awareness of the seasonal circle closing, for the year and for herself. They are at once fearful, fragile and fearless in... -
Stranger to Nothing by Philip Levine
RRP: £12.00£8.00Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £55.00£44.51The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only... -
Slide by Mark Pajak
RRP: £12.00£8.44**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY FIRST COLLECTION PRIZE**'Fresh, urgent, alive... genius' PATIENCE AGBABIThis assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private, hidden places - a... -
Part of My Soul Went with Him by Winnie Mandela 9780393302905
RRP: £16.00£12.53Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one... -
The Soul Scene by Tracy Fitzgibbons 9781035801114
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035801114Author Tracy FitzgibbonsFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.98'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a... -
Ache by Scarlett Ward 9781912565238
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565238Author Scarlett WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press -
Eat Or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick
RRP: £10.99£7.64Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022. Awarded the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Butler Literary Prize 2022. Shortlisted...