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Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: £10.99£7.93The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most... -
One Poem a Day: A Writer's Daily Journal of Words & Inspiration by Nadia Hayes
RRP: £13.99£12.58Each page provides a brand-new prompt designed to stretch you as an artist and a person. Fill-in-the-blanks to create a touching love sonnet; compose a haiku about your biggest mistake; or write a free verse poem on anything from hope, to a locked door,... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780571328758
RRP: £12.99£8.56A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,... -
Politics by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Politics, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of politics and protest, drawing on work written over four decades... -
The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master by Emily Jane O'Dell
RRP: £13.99£11.22As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualising his... -
Sailing Alone Around The Room by Billy Collins
RRP: £11.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. Nominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375755194Author Billy CollinsFormat... -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by R. H. Sin
RRP: £12.99£8.18Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin's first book is a bestseller and continues to delight his one million followers. R.H. Sin's second... -
Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry by Luca Paci 9781913640569
RRP: £15.00£10.96Contemporary Italian poetry offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of these voices with its selection of the most... -
Ancient Irish Poetry by Kuno Meyer 9780094733800
£10.47'...his 1911 translations of the poetry into English are still minor masterpieces..' - Bernard O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement '..literal translations first published in 1913 when they opened many eyes to the variety and richness of Irish... -
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World by Cleo Wade 9781982152796
RRP: £17.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982152796Author Cleo WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 124mm *... -
The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine by Kathleen Raine
RRP: £20.00£13.86In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as... -
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad
RRP: £12.99£9.93In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of... -
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Mark Andryczyk
RRP: £10.99£7.77A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence... -
Birds Knit My Ribs Together by Phil Barnett 9781913665913
RRP: £9.99£6.99what if / I actually - am - a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me... Phil Barnett's relationship with birds is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds - a kind of ornimorphology where rather than giving... -
White Pine by Mary Oliver 9780156001205
RRP: £16.00£11.16In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. "[Her] poems are...as genuine, moving and... -
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition by Gertrude Stein 9780872866355
RRP: £7.99£5.50This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein's corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes out on the centennial of its original publication, and... -
Christmas Spirit: Ten Poems to Warm the Heart by Various Authors 9781907598838
RRP: £5.95£5.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598838Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems by Frank O'Hara 9781857546880
RRP: £9.95£6.97Frank O'Hara (1926-66) composed poems 'any time, any place', collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O'Hara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and... -
The Wound Register by Esther Morgan
RRP: £9.95£6.78The Wound Register, or Casualty Book - which gives this book its title - is an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War. Written during the conflict's... -
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £25.00£16.99It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as... -
The Song of Roland by John DuVal 9781603848510
RRP: £40.99£33.45Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John DuVal approaches the unadorned syntax of The Song of Roland in straightforward modern English, attuned to... -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: £27.00£26.47Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon
RRP: £9.99£6.64Austin Kleon is a cartoonist and poet from Austin, Texas, who takes a page from an existing newspaper and blacks out words until he finds a new hidden meaning in the text. Hilarious and profound, silly and contemplative, the poems in this collection will... -
Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book by Ana Sampson
RRP: £9.99£6.41Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book by Ana Sampson is a beautiful collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. Covering everything from the depths of space to the centre of the earth, this beautiful collection... -
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn
RRP: £16.99£11.58During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to... -
I Find You in the Darkness: Poems by Alfa
RRP: £15.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250202628Author AlfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 127mm *... -
Conversations with Nature by Peter Owen Jones 9781912992416
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Once, we were one form among many in the garden. We learned to hear the voices of the mountains, the rivers, the sky, of silence. The mice spoke, the trees spoke, the stars spoke, the deer and the fox spoke, the snake spoke - and from these words we... -
Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems by Peter Gizzi 9781784108229
RRP: £14.99£10.77Gathered from over thirty years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly resonance - in Gizzi's work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience... -
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker 9780820363967
£28.88In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,... -
Ten Poems About Knitting by Candlestick Press
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598296Author Candlestick PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: £12.99£9.09A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he was sixty. Presented in rough chronological order, the... -
Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams
RRP: £2.00£1.83'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves'Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse, and made him one of the greatest twentieth-century poets. Penguin... -
bird of winter by Alice Hiller
RRP: £10.99£10.02Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2021Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022PBS Special Commendation Summer 2021Alice Hiller's debut performs an act of witness and restitution. Working with... -
Huon of Bordeaux by Catherine M Jones 9781599104010
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599104010Author Catherine M JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £6.99£5.26Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to... -
Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib by Guru Nanak
RRP: £29.95£25.95An exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the sacred tenets cherished by millions of Sikhs worldwide.Guru Nanak (1469-1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core... -
Herbert Poems by George Herbert
RRP: £9.99£7.11Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems," the shape of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression... -
The Odyssey (Collins Classics) by Homer 9780007420094
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more... -
Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun 9781496219640
RRP: £13.99£12.782021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With... -
What the Trumpet Taught Me by Kim Moore 9781914914140
RRP: £8.99£6.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914140Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books