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Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra 9780571352340
RRP: £10.00£7.12Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the... -
DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW. by Noor Hindi
RRP: £12.99£8.63What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and... -
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
RRP: £10.99£8.94The New York Times BestsellerFrom former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase his trademark generosity, wit, and imaginative play.The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits... -
Collected Poems: Chinua Achebe by Chinua Achebe 9781857548433
RRP: £11.99£7.08Chinua Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature in English, a writer of world stature whose novel Things Fall Apart is one of the essential works of the twentieth century. This Collected Poems draws on his three collections of poetry,... -
We Play Here by Dawn Watson 9781915051066
RRP: £12.99£8.32Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative verse novel We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast... -
Rilke on Love by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781734588125
RRP: £8.00£6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734588125Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Favourite Poems of England: a collection to celebrate this green and pleasant land by Jane McMorland-Hunter
RRP: £14.99£10.18A diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English - from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London's bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather. Ode to England... -
Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems by Derval Tubridy 9781900621526
RRP: £42.50£40.72Traces the history of the Peppercanister Press and illuminates the evolving development of Kinsella's ambitious poetic project. The poems are discussed chronologically and the clear interpretations are accompanied by drawings and reproductions of covers... -
Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99£3.51One of those rare books that is immediately enjoyable yet will repay many re-readings' Poetry ReviewCarol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection, for which she was given the Somerset Maughan Award, showcases the Poet Laureate's skill even at the... -
Outlandish by Jo Clement
RRP: £10.99£7.40Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass, and craft. She steps between ancient... -
Negotiations: Poems by Destiny O Birdsong
RRP: £16.95£11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142131Author Destiny O BirdsongFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Girls that Never Die by Safia Elhillo 9781526665546
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Incredibly moving ... Every single poem is stellar' Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger ____________________________________________ In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood... -
The Need to Hold Still: Poems by Lisel Mueller 9780807106709
RRP: £14.95£10.11Winner of the National Book Award for PoetryAn adventurer, Lisel Mueller pursues the protean possibilities of communication. In Dreiser's works she finds language solid, ""as plain as money, / a workable means of exchange."" More often she experiences... -
sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you by Catarine Hancock
RRP: £11.99£7.59Following the success of Catarine's shades of lovers, sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a look into the process of recovering after a particularly bad love.sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a collection of poetry on the feeling of... -
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. by M. L. West
RRP: £24.95£23.39Cyclic verse.Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. Here is... -
Voice of the Two Shores by Agnes Agboton
RRP: £8.99£8.72Drawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is faithfully reproduced through the net of two... -
A Thousand Laurie Lees: The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley by Adam Horovitz
RRP: £12.99£9.62This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and the spirit of a place. A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic reassessment of the Slad Valley, a memoir from a different age rooted in the same idyllic... -
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan 9780393322248
RRP: £24.00£19.91Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust... -
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power 9781784105341
RRP: £9.99£6.99Longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. Winner of the... -
The Thought Fox: Collected Animal Poems Vol 4 by Ted Hughes
RRP: £10.00£6.71Cold, delicately as the dark snowA fox's nose touches twig, leaf;Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints into the snowBetween trees, and warily a lameShadow lags by stump and in hollowOf a body that is bold to... -
Remember, Body... by C. P. Cavafy 9780141397467
RRP: £3.00£2.49'All those excessive, useless regrets...'A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge... -
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £7.99£6.00Journey into Dante's nine circles of Hell in the epic poem, Inferno, with this elegant, unabridged edition featuring the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).The Divine Comedy, written in the early fourteenth century by... -
The Art of Poetry Volume 3: volume 3 by Neal Bowen 9780993077883
RRP: £7.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077883Author Neal BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia Press -
Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare
RRP: £14.99£9.80Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's... -
Pablo Picasso's Noel by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A sweet winter light blushedas Pablo Picasso walked his dogunder the cypress treesand the bell of the old chapel guessed at the hour.It was Christmas Eve.'Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's new Christmas poem, Pablo Picasso's Noel follows the famous... -
One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth 9780811206198
RRP: £11.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811206198Author Kenneth RexrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing... -
This Happy Spirit by John Clare 9780956411334
£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956411334Author John ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint John Clare SocietyPublisher John Clare SocietyWeight(grams) 140g -
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
RRP: £10.00£6.71A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the... -
Spiritual Verses by Jelaluddin Rumi
RRP: £14.99£10.95Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical' poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the... -
Small Acts of Kindness: A Tale of the First Russian Revolution by Jennifer Antill
RRP: £12.99£9.09St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the glory of victory over Napoleon, but in the army and elsewhere resentment is growing against serfdom and autocracy. Vasily, a pleasure loving, privileged young man, returns home from abroad... -
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99£12.28Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where had he come from? And where was he going? He sought the answers in order to free and empower not only himself, but the whole human race... -
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
RRP: £10.99£6.47'It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush... There have been moments when, for me, its... -
Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: £3.99£2.98In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to... -
That's Not a Fishing Boat, It's a Giraffe: Responses to Austerity by Ian McMillan 9781912196753
RRP: £6.00£4.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196753Author Ian McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam
RRP: £16.99£12.072021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into... -
Heart On My Sleeve by Attila The Stockbroker 9781909454873
RRP: £17.00£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909454873Author Attila The StockbrokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Cherry Red RecordsPublisher Cherry Red RecordsDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
John Newton's Olney Hymns by Charles J Doe 9781935626343
RRP: £9.95£9.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935626343Author Charles J DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 10mm -
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
RRP: £12.99£8.56Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly... -
She Fits Inside These Words by r.h. Sin
RRP: £11.99£7.59From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind,... -
Poems for New Parents by Becky Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.51A beautiful gift anthology of classic poetry which captures the excitement and joy of a new arrival in the family. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make...