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Here at Dawn: Poetry and Prose by Beau Taplin
RRP: £9.99£6.41Find the magic in this collection-the moments and words that seem to glimmer and shine with their own inner light.Find deep magic in the pages of Beau Taplin's third book, Here at Dawn. The message is this: There is nothing ordinary about you or this... -
Plays, Prose Writings And Poems by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99£11.35Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde's belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works include Wilde's... -
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781857150742
RRP: £17.99£13.35These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory,... -
Said And Done by Roger McGough
RRP: £10.99£7.77Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution. His name is ubiquitous with matter-of-fact Scouse humour, easy-going charm, and perfect observations of the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, whether you know him... -
Pro Eto: That'S What by Vladimir Mayakovsky
RRP: £10.99£7.64Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his... -
The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae 9781472158031
RRP: £12.99£8.60A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' GuardianShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims... -
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
RRP: £17.00£9.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807069141Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 7mm -
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: £14.99£10.95'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary weather - Homer's winds, Ovid's flood - to scientific... -
The Ink Dark Moon by Izumi Shikibu
RRP: £10.99£7.77Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education... -
In Praise of Hands: Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara - Poems by Penny Boxall by Penny Boxall 9781910807446
RRP: £9.95£6.78This creative collaboration between artist Naoko Matsubara and poet Penny Boxall celebrates in words and colours the beauty and variety of the human hand. The series of dynamic woodcuts at the heart of this book was initially inspired by the... -
On the Banks by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: £14.99£13.35In a city celebrated for its poets and songwriters, On the Banks takes us on a lyrical tour of life, love, work and childhood in Cork. This captivating collection shares the best poems and songs about Cork city, from edmund Spenser to Gerry Murphy, and... -
I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems by Grace Nichols
RRP: £12.99£8.60Grace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in... -
Desolation Peak: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £21.99£14.83"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak…I can feel it." In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond... -
The Arctic by Don Paterson
RRP: £14.99£9.80'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love... -
How to Read A Chinese Poem: A Bilingual Anthology of Tang Poetry by Dr Edward C Chang 9781419670138
RRP: £20.00£18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419670138Author Dr Edward C ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781529015003
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold... -
Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99£4.76Beginning with the King's Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at their places, the wine is in full flow, the musicians are playing in the gallery and the entertainment has... -
How to Survive the Apocalypse by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
RRP: £18.95£13.29How to Survive the Apocalypse, the second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble, examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should "live by rage and joy and turpentine."... -
Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780226782768
RRP: £83.00£79.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226782768Author Lucius Annaeus SenecaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
New Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
RRP: £14.99£9.80New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon's verse, from the early lyricism to a more expansive... -
My Heart Cries Out: Gospel Meditations for Everyday Life by Paul David Tripp
RRP: £17.99£13.35Paul David Tripp shares his celebrations, disappointments, cries for help, confessions, and confusions in the form of 120 poems written as he experienced God's grace in various seasons of his life.About the AuthorPaul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster... -
Membery by Preeti Raipal 9781946482983
RRP: £18.00£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482983Author Preeti RaipalFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)... -
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna by Betty De Shong Meador
RRP: £19.99£17.54The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. High Priestess to the moon god Nanna, Enheduanna came to venerate the goddess Inanna above all gods in the Sumerian pantheon... -
No Matter the Wreckage by Professor of French Literature Sarah Kay
RRP: £15.00£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912481Author Sarah KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Poems by Jorge Borges
RRP: £14.99£10.95Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions... -
Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland by Gerda Stevenson
RRP: £9.99£7.27Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more - Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.About the... -
Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (LOA #368) by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: £40.00£24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537369Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)... -
Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess by Ramprasad Sen
RRP: £15.99£10.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934252942Author Ramprasad SenFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Hohm Press,U.S.Publisher Hohm Press,U.S. -
Hallaig and Other Poems: Selected Poems of Sorley MacLean by Sorley Maclean
RRP: £14.99£9.80This selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail... -
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith
RRP: £35.00£23.83When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.Satirical, mischievous,... -
Poems by Emily Dickinson 9781857157048
RRP: £12.00£8.44An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics ' 129pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The... -
Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner 9780571391653
RRP: £12.99£8.56'An astounding debut . . . a book that seduces the brain . . . Millner's couplets enact high-wire acts of wit and poignancy.' New York Times'I've never read a better encapsulation of what it means to question a previously fixed idea of identity and... -
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso 9780199535354
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
A Season in Hell & Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud 9780679643272
RRP: £14.99£10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643272Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Merton
RRP: £11.99£8.99Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view of his varied and progressively innovative work... -
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare
RRP: £8.99£6.08The perfect gift for children aged 8+, this stunning classic collection of poetry will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list.Peacock Pie contains the finest of Walter de la Mare's poems for children, accompanied by... -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £12.99£8.56This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.The Selected... -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
RRP: £10.99£7.51William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as 'The Lamb', 'The Chimney-Sweeper' and 'The Tiger'. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: £13.99£12.25This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Eversley Edition text of the poem, accompanied by Erik Gray's preface, full introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.One illustration.A generous selection (new to the Third Edition) of background...