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The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
RRP: £9.99£7.27If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here... -
Crying for Kharkiv by Jim McDonald 9781837940448
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837940448Author Jim McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: £9.99£6.70In 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... -
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore 9781604332445
RRP: £4.99£3.57The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with the #1?New York Times bestselling edition of the classic poem written by Clement C. Moore. This is the... -
Our Isles: Poems celebrating the art of rural trades and traditions by Angus D. Birditt
RRP: £12.99£8.48From baker, beekeeper and birdwatcher to falconer, farrier and forager, join poet Angus and printmaker Lilly as they explore the British Isles, uncovering and celebrating our crafts and traditions. This collection of... -
Drypoint Jamie McKendrick 9780571384518
RRP: £12.99£8.56Jamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to... -
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird 9781857548877
RRP: £9.95£6.97Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she strikes out again in new directions, taking nothing for... -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include... -
Clouds / Wasps / Peace by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse by Mick Imlah
RRP: £18.99£13.61THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE is the first anthology ever to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish history, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve... -
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Various 9780142196120
RRP: £22.00£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196120Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Poetry Teatime Companion: A Brave Writer Sampler of British and American Poems by Nancy Graham 9780996242776
RRP: £26.95£21.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996242776Author Nancy GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Brave WriterPublisher Brave WriterWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 9mm -
Collected Poems of Robert Southwell by Robert Southwell
RRP: £12.95£8.91This book is a complete edition of the authentic poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert Southwell, offering new texts based on the very manuscripts which were circulated in secret among English Catholics in the... -
Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin
RRP: £12.00£8.00US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced... -
The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson 9781935904373
£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904373Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)... -
New Poetries VIII: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt 9781800170407
RRP: £14.99£10.77A Poetry Book Society Spring 2021 Special Commendation. Edited by Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe, this is the latest in Carcanet's celebrated introductory anthology series presenting work by two dozen poets writing in English from around the world... -
Averno by Louise Gluck 9781857548372
RRP: £9.95£6.97Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world... -
Selected Poems by Charlotte Smith 9781857547252
RRP: £7.95£5.67After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience. This selection provides an ideal introduction to the... -
Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: £12.99£9.09A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving future... -
Collected Poems by Michael Donaghy 9781447261711
RRP: £14.99£11.13The death of Michael Donaghy in 2004 at the age of fifty robbed poetry of one of its best-loved and most naturally gifted practitioners. A modern metaphysical, Donaghy wrote poetry of great wisdom, grace, charm, erudition and consummate technical... -
Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi
RRP: £10.99£10.02Following on from her Forward prize-winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form,... -
Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9780062015273
RRP: £15.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062015273Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Poetry of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde 9781788885140
RRP: £6.99£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885140Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Sparks by James Low 9780956923943
£21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956923943Author James LowFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Simply BeingPublisher Simply BeingWeight(grams) 540g -
Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: With parallel French Text by Collectif
RRP: £11.99£8.43'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and... -
Small Hands by Mona Arshi 9781781381816
RRP: £10.99£10.02Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi's debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother's death but her work... -
Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: £24.95£23.39Monumental verse.The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes... -
wild is she by Wilder Poetry 9780692974735
£25.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692974735Author Wilder PoetryFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Too Big WorldPublisher Too Big WorldWeight(grams) 966g -
Enter the Water by Jack Wiltshire 9781472158185
RRP: £14.99£9.80AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the... -
Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders 9781800173255
RRP: £12.99£8.94In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it... -
Goblin Market by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: £3.00£2.49'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth'A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black... -
Reading the Flowers by Linda France
RRP: £9.99£6.99Reading the Flowers began during Linda France's 2010-11 Leverhulme Residency at Moorbank, Newcastle University's Botanic Garden (now closed). This led to a tour of Botanic Gardens in the UK and abroad. Here nature and culture meet in poems looking at... -
Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems by Hart Larrabee
RRP: £29.99£20.92Haiku - seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity - have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This... -
Swallowtail by Brenna Twohy 9781943735631
RRP: £16.00£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735631Author Brenna TwohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 8mm -
The Coral Sea by Patti Smith 9780393341355
RRP: £11.99£8.76Through the linked pieces of The Coral Sea, Patti Smith honors her comrade-in-arms Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). She tells the story of a man on an ocean journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is... -
Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets by Pat Boran 9781910251614
RRP: £22.50£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251614Author Pat BoranFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm -
Hadraawi: The Poet and the Man by Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame 'Hadraawi' 9788888934365
RRP: £10.00£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788888934365Author Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame 'Hadraawi'Format PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ponte InvisibilePublisher Ponte InvisibileWeight(grams) 190g -
Bacchae: WITH Iphigenia at Aulis AND Rhesus by Euripidies
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
The Picador Book of Love Poems by John Stammers
£11.42With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a book of surprising connections, echoes and... -
Ten Poems about Music: The Yellow Album by Kim Moore
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627119Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press