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Self-Love for Small-Town Girls by Lang Leav 9781524878764
RRP: £11.99£7.59Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and prose that seeks to define the loaded question of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.As women, we create... -
Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying LIfe by Rose Macaulay
RRP: £12.99£8.63In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal... -
The Faber Book of Christmas by Simon Rae
RRP: £20.00£13.86If the most wonderful time of year is enough to plunge you into a gloom, look no further. This collection of spirited stories and vibrant poetry will brighten your mood as it brings together Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin, W.H.Auden and Wendy Cope,... -
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll 9781854379566
RRP: £7.99£5.79"The Hunting of the Snark" relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove... -
Of Dusk and Dawn: The Beautiful Truth by Ullie Kowcun 9781732054912
RRP: £14.79£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732054912Author Ullie KowcunFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Savage Owl PressPublisher Savage Owl PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh poems of romance, desire and devotion by M. Wynn Thomas
RRP: £9.99£7.58A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they... -
School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson 9780571383511
RRP: £12.99£8.18In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in... -
Hell and After: Four early English-language poets of Australia by Francis MacNamara 9781857547856
£19.41The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fellow prisoners. Sentenced in 1832 to... -
The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
RRP: £10.99£7.32Julia Copus's poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life into loss. In two previous collections, she has been feted as among the most compelling poets to have emerged in recent years;... -
Inheritance by Jasmine Cooray 9781913268503
RRP: £10.99£8.99Poetry Book Society Recommendation Inheritance is a profoundly moving exploration of what is passed down by our forebearers, what is left behind when we lose someone, and what we learn from being loved. Jasmine Cooray holds our most fiercely-guarded... -
The Best of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash 9781566637039
RRP: £25.00£22.68It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: £27.50£11.24From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat... -
The Surrender Theory: Poems by Caitlin Conlon
RRP: £12.99£8.18The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and... -
I Have to Tell You Something by Zara Bas 9780645545593
£16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645545593Author Zara BasFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Zara Bas PublishingPublisher Zara Bas PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£7.11'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "translated" Shakespeare's sonnets and he has done so with an insolent, loveable charm ... A dazzling success' - Stephen FryRediscover the greatest love poetry... -
I Think of You by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.56This new collection is a fascinating journey into the heart of each of us - from the author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the 44 Scotland Street series. In I Think of You, the reader travels through literary Edinburgh in summer, heartbreak... -
Renaissance Women Poets by Aemilia Lanyer
RRP: £12.99£9.09Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and vernacular sources, and reflect the growing literary... -
The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman 9781982186753
RRP: £12.99£8.18Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the... -
In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird
RRP: £9.99£6.99Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic... -
Profusion & Disorder by Geoffrey Eyre 9780955460876
RRP: £9.00£7.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955460876Author Geoffrey EyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Mardle PublicationsPublisher Mardle PublicationsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schutze
£30.33Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey... -
The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Earl of Rochester
RRP: £12.99£11.46John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies, he... -
Other Man's Flowers: An Anthology of English Poetry by Lord Wavell 9788129120182
£20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129120182Author Lord WavellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Fox: Accordion Book No 1 by Jackie Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.13An Accordion Book doesn't open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text - poems, descriptions, invocations - inspired by the same animal.Together... -
I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy by Shirazi Hafiz
RRP: £32.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037811Author Shirazi HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Books India Pvt LtdPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams)... -
Girlhood by Julia Copus
RRP: £10.99£7.32WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the... -
Bury Me in Smoke by Emdad Khan 9781398469877
RRP: £6.99£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398469877Author Emdad KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
RRP: £12.99£9.09Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers,... -
One Lark, One Horse by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £10.99£7.32Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century', TLS - is all the more impressive for his... -
The Love Poems Of Rumi by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood... -
Emblem by Lucy Mercer 9781913513221
RRP: £12.00£8.30Emblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural world in literature. Emblem revitalises this forgotten... -
Granta 164: Last Notes by Sigrid Rausing 9781909889576
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889576Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Heroicus. Gymnasticus. Discourses 1 and 2: Discourses 1 and 2 by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.39How to cultivate Greek heroes and athletes.In the writings of Philostratus (ca. AD 170-ca. 250), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century AD reached its height. His Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Lives of the Sophists, and Imagines... -
Love Set You Going: Poems of the Heart by Janet Morley
RRP: £13.99£9.75'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness. Love enables us to make meaning of our lives in the... -
Comic Timing by Holly Pester
RRP: £10.99£7.32Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the... -
The Sleeping Lord: And Other Fragments by David Jones
RRP: £17.99£12.20'The Sleeping Lord is perhaps the best introductory volume to Jones's work; the contours can be seen most clearly here, and the textures, though rich, are less elaborate than in The Anathemata, since there is an open, dramatic quality running through the... -
You Don't Need Therapy: 7 Steps to Sort Your Sh*t Out by Alan Lucas 9781913532253
RRP: £12.99£10.92The SYSO System is a one stop self-improvement system that can be applied wherever you are on your journey. You can change your life by following 7 simple steps and the book's 70 practical exercises help you DO the changing, rather than just read about... -
Adult Entertainment by Chloe Poems 9781901927184
RRP: £6.95£5.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927184Author Chloe PoemsPage Count 138Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route Publishing -
Scared? by Joshua Seigal 9781912745142
RRP: £8.99£6.73'It follows me and yet it's not a part of me It does the things I do'. 48 inventive, insightful poems exploring the darker side. From bullies to black holes, cats to clowns, these original and thought-provoking poems are a roller coaster ride through... -
Up Late by Nick Laird 9780571378678
RRP: £14.99£9.53Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies...