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Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney 9780571144693
RRP: £12.99£8.56This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It... -
Mirabai by Robert Bly
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063873Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 140mm * 8mm -
Shampoo and Set: 75 Years as a Hairdresser by Linda Sherlock 9781913913007
RRP: £9.99£7.11At the age of five, Margaret Sherlock decided to give herself a haircut with a cutthroat razor. It was the start of a lifelong obsession with hairstyling. In 1945, as a fifteen-year-old, she cycled daily to her hairdressing apprenticeship in Northern... -
Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry by Karen van Dyck
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the world'- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'Since the crisis hit... -
Green Shoots Rising by Andy Tooze
RRP: £8.99£6.45Green Shoots Rising is an exciting and stimulating collection of poems aimed primarily at primary age children. It's full of thought provoking and amusing poems which children, and adults will love. The 'green shoots' of the title are a play on words... -
Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland
RRP: £10.99£7.40America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final... -
Full Circle Undivided: Poems-Volume 1 by Wendy E Slater
£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943512034Author Wendy E SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wendy E. SlaterPublisher Wendy E. SlaterWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.56The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are... -
My Soul's Human Experience by Christopher Whybrow 9781398493261
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398493261Author Christopher WhybrowFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Shakespeare in Autumn (Seasons Edition -- Fall): Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare
RRP: £18.99£13.48Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets, by William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, is available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping,... -
My Poems Won't Change the World by Patrizia Cavalli
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven't a clue whom I should tell'From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and... -
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and... -
100 Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
RRP: £11.99£10.15The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of haiku and other later forms. The sound of the Japanese texts i reproduced in Romaji script and the names of the poets in... -
Pierre Reverdy by Pierre Reverdy
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)... -
Collected Poems by Georg Trakl
RRP: £14.99£13.03The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not... -
In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison 9781556593192
RRP: £19.00£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593192Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g -
Oxford Student Texts: The Merchant's Tale by Steven Croft 9780198355380
£11.76Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Merchant's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.Student... -
brainwaves by Ziggy Alberts 9780648705710
RRP: £13.99£10.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648705710Author Ziggy AlbertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Commonfolk PublishingPublisher Commonfolk Publishing -
Dog Poems by Various
RRP: £9.99£7.11Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection... -
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese Anthology by Confucius
RRP: £19.99£14.05Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -... -
Essential Haiku by Robert Hass
RRP: £20.00£13.35The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, and the haiku poet most familiar to English readers; Yosa Buson... -
Chat 'Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations by Shelley Sykes-Coley 9781982200954
RRP: £9.95£7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982200954Author Shelly Sykes-ColeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa Press -
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid
RRP: £12.99£8.56Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man... -
Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan
RRP: £12.99£8.32Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map... -
Poetic Off Licence by Hovis Presley 9780993237003
RRP: £10.00£8.25Entertainment with the emphasis on "tert". Since running away from home at the age of 28, award winning writer Hovis Presley (the award wasn't for writing) has found fame as the inventor of the bra-less strap and the individually wrapped baked bean. His... -
New And Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver
RRP: £16.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068878Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio
RRP: £13.99£9.90The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life-including self-doubt and writer's block-are here, along... -
Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems & Selected Prose by Rosemary Tonks
RRP: £12.99£8.60The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After publishing two extraordinary poetry collections - and six... -
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the... -
Poems and Prose by Christina G. Rossetti 9780192807151
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even... -
The Inferno by Dante 9780385496988
RRP: £13.99£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496988Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus By Dogs by Jamie Coleman
RRP: £9.99£7.11You may take my ballsBut I will lick what remainsAnd then, dear, your faceImagine if your dog could talk to you. Better still, imagine if it could express its innermost feelings in poetic form. This hilarious, insightful book confirms what we've all long... -
Owls And Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068755Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 158mm * 7mm -
Chameleon Aura by Billy Chapata 9781449499372
RRP: £9.99£6.41Social media sensation Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude... -
KJV, Center-Column Reference Bible with Apocrypha, Hardcover, 73,000 Cross-References, Red Letter, Comfort Print: King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £40.00£26.44Enjoy the unmatched beauty of the King James Version combined with the readability of Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print (R) typeface, all in a Bible that includes over 73,000 cross references and the Apocrypha.In this edition, the literary... -
Obit by Victoria Chang
RRP: £10.99£7.40Los Angeles Times Book PrizePEN Voelcker AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book PrizeNew York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books NPR's Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistNational Book Critics Circle, FinalistGriffin Poetry... -
28 Portuguese poets: A bilingual anthology by Richard Zenith
RRP: £13.00£8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g -
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden by Richard Stokes
RRP: £14.99£11.35Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience through the... -
Sex & Love & Rock&Roll by Tony Walsh
RRP: £9.99£6.99This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical... -
A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Robert Burns
RRP: £9.99£6.70The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about...