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Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limon
RRP: £11.99£8.00The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from... -
Some Integrity by Padraig Regan 9781800172081
RRP: £11.99£8.29Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2023. Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2023. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. Shortlisted... -
Robert Herrick by Stephen Romer
RRP: £5.99£4.22In 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... -
A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Carroll F. Terrell
RRP: £35.00£28.74The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered... -
Inquire Within by In-Q 9780062954701
RRP: £15.99£10.85Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original... -
Selected Poems of Rilke, Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £15.99£12.91These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. ... -
Best of Robert Service (The): Poems by Robert Service 9780888395450
RRP: £13.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395450Author Robert ServiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
After by Vivek Narayanan
RRP: £23.00£16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376462Author Vivek NarayananFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo 9781912196562
RRP: £5.00£3.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196562Author Gboyega OdubanjoFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Poetry Please!: More Poetry Please by BBC Radio 4
RRP: £5.99£4.40A selection of poems from the successful Radio 4 series, including Auden, Betjeman, Hopkins and MacNeice, with an introduction by Charles Causley.A compilation of classic poems from the beloved Radio 4 series.Book InformationISBN 9780460878241Author BBC... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: £52.00£41.03Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of... -
Breathing: Chaos and Poetry: Volume 26 by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: £13.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900385Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
No Place for Monsters by Kory Merrit 9781913696085
RRP: £7.99£5.23A deliciously spooky novel packed with illustrations - Stranger Things for younger readers! 'Wildly imaginative and totally terrifying' JEFF KINNEY, AUTHOR OF DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 'A haunted-house version of... -
Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem by Horace 9780198721611
RRP: £72.00£55.96Horace is the greatest Latin lyric poet, and certainly the most influential. This book provides a new translation of the famous first book of Odes which is both accurate and readable, supported by a basic commentary for students showing how the poems... -
Softening Time: Collected Poems by Elena Brower
RRP: £11.99£7.59From beloved yogi, teacher, and artist Elena Brower comes the writer's debut collection of poetry: a lyrical exploration of grief, self-compassion, and learning from the past to navigate life's challenges with grace.Softening Time is both autobiography... -
Halloween Mazes by Sam Smith 9781803700762
RRP: £7.99£4.76Walk the decks of ghostly galleons, explore fright-filled theme parks, and plan the best trick-or-treat routes between pumpkin-bedecked houses as you delve into this spook-tacular selection of Halloween mazes. Each maze is more challenging than the last,... -
Selected Poetry: including Hoelderlin's Sophocles by Friedrich Hoelderlin
RRP: £14.99£9.80Friedrich Hoelderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised... -
Time by Etel Adnan 9781643620046
RRP: £12.99£8.63WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE WINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD FINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled... -
Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu by John Davidson
RRP: £12.99£9.09The poems collected in this volume are exquisite and languorous expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and, above all,... -
War All the Time by Charles Bukowski
£11.47War All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and... -
Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: £30.00£20.70The collected work of America's pre-eminent post-war poet.Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English... -
Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £10.99£7.77Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century - beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter... -
The Built Moment by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: £10.99£7.32Lavinia Greenlaw's last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'. The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780393977967
£14.28Richard Wilbur praises Palma's translation as "accurate as to sense, fully rhymed, and easy, as a rule, in its movement through the tercets. Readers will find it admirably clear and readable." The text is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations... -
In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: £15.99£11.04Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a... -
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.56Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her... -
Tsushima: Great Battles Series by Rotem Kowner 9780198831075
RRP: £26.49£18.61The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the... -
Badminton by Molly Naylor
RRP: £9.99£6.99Molly Naylor is not your typical Burning Eye poet. Poetry is actually just one of her many writing talents. She is also a scriptwriter, producer and filmmaker. From writing sitcoms for SKY 1 to recording audiobooks for BBC Radio 4 and recording short... -
Yeats's Poetic Codes by Nicholas Grene
RRP: £29.49£27.15Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to... -
Selected and New Poems by John F. Deane 9781800173590
RRP: £16.99£12.08John F. Deane opted for a Selected and New rather than the tombstone of a Collected to mark his eightieth year before heaven. He is still a living force, in physical and spiritual space: a Selected Poems (Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill, 2012) already... -
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive
RRP: £11.99£8.00An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth."Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical... -
The Language of Flowers: Selected by Jane Holloway by Various
RRP: £9.99£7.11The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions, ideas, or states of mind: love, hope, despair, fidelity, solitude, beauty, mortality. Over time these associations... -
The Healing Next Time by Roy McFarlane 9781911027454
RRP: £9.99£6.99Roy McFarlane's second poetry collection, The Healing Next Time, is a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody and of a life story set against the ever-changing backdrop of Birmingham at the turn of... -
The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9780142437681
£14.53When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 1936-1938 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £50.00£48.41Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The... -
The Poems of John Keats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by John Strachan 9780415234788
RRP: £19.99£17.69This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and... -
The Apricot Memoirs by Tess Guinery
RRP: £11.99£7.59This romantic fusion of art-poetry, prose, and unbridled creativity-was birthed from one soul's season of adventure and unraveling, inviting us to surrender the great for the greater.What started as a break from Australian artist Tess Guinery's rapidly... -
The Art of Poetry: OCR Conflict by Johanna Harrison 9780995467170
RRP: £17.99£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467170Author Johanna HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
KJV, Center-Column Reference Bible with Apocrypha, Leathersoft, Brown, 73,000 Cross-References, Red Letter, Comfort Print: King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9781400332038
RRP: £55.00£39.47Enjoy 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... -
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle by Robert Lowell
RRP: £35.00£23.23WINNER OF THE PEGASUS AWARD FOR POETRY CRITICISMThe Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation...