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Poems, New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: £16.99£11.58When Wislawa Szymborksa's View with a Grain of Sand, also translated by Stanislaw Baraczak and Clare Cavanagh, was published shortly after its author's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, the Polish poet, hitherto all but unknown outside her... -
William Barnes by William Barnes
RRP: £8.99£6.08In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
alphabet by Inger Christensen
RRP: £10.99£7.40Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was one of Denmark's best-known poets. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet it has enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality, yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth... -
Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield
RRP: £10.99£7.40Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2008, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, "Almanacs", was a traveller's... -
Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems by Joyce Mansour 9780872869011
RRP: £16.99£11.67Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris."You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me-and very objectively too-the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that's you."-Andre Breton Joyce Mansour,... -
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 9780520390478
RRP: £21.00£13.88Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature.Dictee is the best-known work of... -
The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: £12.00£8.00Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in... -
Undying: A Love Story by Michel Faber
RRP: £9.99£6.70How can you say goodbye to the love of your life?In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic and candid, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love... -
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson
RRP: £20.00£13.10'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit HubH of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in... -
Old English Shorter Poems, Volume II: Wisdom and Lyric by Robert E. Bjork
RRP: £29.95£23.66The twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalizing insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons. The Wanderer and The Seafarer famously combine philosophical consolation with introspection to achieve a... -
The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic by Simon Armitage
RRP: £11.99£10.77In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick... -
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang
RRP: £10.99£7.40A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Impeccable, precise poems, sometimes shocking and strange, but always startling' Irish TimesA lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while... -
The Faber Book of Monologues: Women by M/s Jane Edwardes
RRP: £10.99£7.32Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an impressive array of... -
Home Ground: mystery and magic, short stories and poetry in a familiar landscape by Amaris Chase 9781915067487
RRP: £8.99£7.07Trolls and pookas, wild woodlands and fairy meadows. A dollhouse with secrets within its rooms. A holiday cottage comes with a ghostly guest, and walkers awake an ancient myth. Then a child finds an unusual excuse for missing homework, before... -
Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems by John Agard
RRP: £12.00£8.00John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. "Alternative Anthem" is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, including... -
The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih by Wang An-shih 9780811222631
RRP: £12.99£11.46Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure-not only one of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and controversial statesman of his time. Although Wang had little interest in the grandeur of high office and political... -
Lipstick by Maggie Butt 9781871551945
RRP: £7.99£7.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551945Author Maggie ButtFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Heterogeneous: 2016 by Anthony Anaxagorou
RRP: £10.00£7.00Heterogeneous is the defnitive anthology of Anthony Anaxagorou s poetry - an extensive and revised selection taken from several previous volumes. The winner of the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award, Anaxagorou offers the reader an insight into his poetry... -
Customs by Solmaz Sharif
RRP: £9.99£6.70Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A New Yorker Essential Read of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 An NPR Best Book of 2022 A Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry... -
Many Small Hungerings: Poetry by William Bortz
RRP: £11.99£7.59An explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely and necessary collection of poetry from writer William Bortz.Many Small Hungerings is the newest collection of poignant poetry from writer and poet... -
Harvesting Fog by Luci Shaw 9780982156124
RRP: £15.00£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982156124Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Hundred Thousand Places by Thomas A. Clark
RRP: £9.95£6.97To walk through a landscape is to be part of a slow unfolding of time and distance, to commit yourself to an adventure. "The Hundred Thousand Places" is a single poem that travels across seasons, through a variety of Scottish highland and island... -
River Poems by Various
RRP: £12.00£8.44Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it is natural that poets have for... -
Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £20.00£14.29Pinpointing the virtues of such items as soap and a tomato, this selection fr the Nobel Prizes-winning poet contains twenty-five of his odes, each accompanied by an English translation and two pencil drawings.Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in... -
Charismatic Megafauna by Tamsin Kendrick 9780955384653
£10.05I Proverbs I Lancing Charismatic Megafauna Beecow Peter Pan Versus Captain Hook Loveland, Colorado Bear Lake, Colorado Dating Criteria Of Mice and Men South Bank Beach An Irish Dream Bloody Mare Into the Woods Mr Tumnus Comes to London I Dream of Tumnus... -
Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £8.99£6.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593466353Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Fables: Fables by Phaedrus
RRP: £24.95£24.54Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of... -
A Sussex Alphabet by Eleanor Farjeon 9781906022198
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906022198Author Eleanor FarjeonFormat PaperbackImprint Snake River Press LtdPublisher Snake River Press Ltd -
Food by Gertrude Stein
RRP: £3.00£2.49Sadder than salad.From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the... -
50 Barn Poems by Zac Smith 9781944866600
RRP: £13.99£9.75Consisting of fifty barn poems, 50 Barn Poems is an evocative yet accessible sketch of that old barn that haunts the back of your brain. Vague memories of road trips, skateboarding, the ocean, and ping-pong are all reconstructed in the shape of a barn... -
Elegies of Chu by Nicholas Williams 9780198818311
RRP: £12.99£9.09Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic... -
DARKNESS BETWEEN STARS by John F. Deane
RRP: £18.00£14.91In setting the poets side by side, this volume also highlights the two main faith traditions of the West: Deane with his Roman Catholic background, rooted in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur with his Protestant (Church of Ireland and Quaker) heritage,... -
My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian by Kim Kierkegaardashian 9781982100988
RRP: £17.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982100988Author Kim KierkegaardashianFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 185mm *... -
Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780571382927
RRP: £12.99£8.56A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.Silver is a collection that shines with a guiding principle, that poetry: 'part physics, part faith, part void', can be found wherever it is looked for. Virtuosic in... -
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson 9780571310913
RRP: £12.99£8.56This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical... -
The Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso
RRP: £10.99£9.37It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever... -
All Dogs Are Good: Poems and Memories by Courtney Peppernell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written for anyone who has known the touch of a cold nose on their hand, the bark of a best friend, or the joy of a walk accompanied by a wagging tail, All Dogs Are Good pays tribute to the special bond we share with our canine companions.Filled with... -
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
RRP: £18.99£13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210156Author Hana VolavkovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 266mm... -
Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation by Andrew M. Miller
RRP: £17.99£14.91Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction... -
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations...