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The Dragon Book of Verse by Michael Harrison
£18.62A well-known and much loved selection of the best traditional modern English verse. It contains many famous, and often quoted poems, and also provides young people with an introduction to good poetry.Book InformationISBN 9780198312413Author Michael... -
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness by Robert Bly
RRP: £18.99£13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025929Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Nude as Retrospect by Alex Marlow 9781739265236
RRP: £8.00£5.70Debut poetry pamphlet by Alex Marlow, a British poet and actor from Lancashire. His work has appeared in the Rialto, The London Magazine, Ambit, fourteen poems, and Impossible Archetype. He is a 2022 beneficiary of The Fenton Arts Trust.Book... -
Collected Poems by Moya Cannon 9781800170322
RRP: £16.99£12.08An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. In Collected Poems one of Ireland's best-loved contemporary poets brings together poems from her six principal collections, Oar (1990), The Parchment Boat (1997), Carrying the Songs (1907), Hands (2011),... -
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle 9781940696515
RRP: £12.99£8.63Unlike many Wave titles, this paperback edition follows the hardcover by one year and will arrive in the market enjoying a year's worth of very strong publicity and word-of-mouth, attracting new readers with the new format and lower price. All of... -
The Martian's Regress by J. O. Morgan
RRP: £10.00£7.12**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it... -
Out of the Ashes by Frieda Hughes
RRP: £12.00£8.00Frieda Hughes's fable-like poems draw on her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, a lifelong engagement with nature and itinerant wildlife, and later experiences when living in Australia, London, and most recently, Wales. They cast light on two worlds,... -
On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of Gregory Nazianzen by Peter Gilbert 9780881412208
RRP: £12.99£9.09St Gregory's poetry is open and self-revealing and has personal character. In these poems he speaks of the joys and frustrations of his own life; he reveals his inner questioning about the purpose and value of life in the face of sin and mortality; and... -
From Darkness Into Light by A Helwa 9781957415031
RRP: £12.99£9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957415031Author A HelwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Naulit Inc.Publisher Naulit Inc.Weight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm -
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by James Crews
RRP: £11.99£8.85An Indie Poetry Bestseller! What the world needs now - featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic... -
Dunce by Mary Ruefle
RRP: £12.99£8.63FINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has... -
Emergency Kit by Jo Shapcott
RRP: £12.99£8.56Emergency Kit is an anthology with many differences. It is, to begin with, a book which gives prominence to poems rather than to the poets who wrote them. It is truly international, bringing together poems not just from these islands but from many parts... -
I Will Not Fold These Maps by Mona Kareem
RRP: £9.00£6.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894832Author Mona KareemFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Wilder by Jemma Borg
RRP: £10.99£10.02Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. Third Prize winner of the Laurel Prize 2022.What is still wild in us - and is it recoverable? The poems in Wilder, Jemma Borg's second collection, are acts of excavation into the deeper and more elusive aspects... -
Songs Of Kabir by Kabir
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173794Author KabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 200mm... -
Isn't Forever by Amy Key
RRP: £10.99£7.40Amy Key's Isn't Forever is a spell book for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy, elusive and unrequited. The poems in this book are obsessive in their desire to construct and breach the terms of their own intimacy. The poems have... -
The Years by Jamie McKendrick
RRP: £8.00£5.70With a number of highly-acclaimed poetry collections to his name, this well-known poet has produced a chapbook of enigmatic and beautifully-crafted poems, each of which is accompanied by an illustration by the poet who reveals himself as an accomplished... -
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
RRP: £12.99£8.56In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime... -
After Sylvia by Ian Humphreys 9781913437565
RRP: £14.99£10.77After Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Published by Nine Arches Press in October 2022, the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath's birth through a range of compelling poems and thought-provoking... -
Touchstones: A Teaching Anthology of Poetry by Michael Benton
£29.25Develop a love for poetry at key stage three with the trusted Touchstones series. This diverse selection of over 150 poems features thought-provoking contemporary voices and much-loved favourites. Touchstones: A Teaching Anthology of Poetry will help you... -
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker
RRP: £30.00£23.69'The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes,' Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry... -
Collected Plays for Children by Ted Hughes
RRP: £10.99£7.32This volume contains six plays by Ted Hughes which are particularly suitable for performance by children. Four of them were published originally under the title, The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays. Added to these are Orpheus and The Pig Organ, the... -
Solitude by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: £10.99£7.77A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and despair, reflections on mind and soul, and meditations... -
As Far as I Know by Roger McGough
RRP: £8.99£6.45Take comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger McGough's new book of poems shows him writing as fluently and inventively as ever. There... -
New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry 9781619021525
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021525Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Selected Poems of Mick Imlah by Mick Imlah
RRP: £12.99£8.56Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length... -
Trojan Women: a comic by Anne Carson
RRP: £10.99£7.78This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan Women is a wildly imaginative collaboration between the visual artist... -
There is an Anger That Moves by Kei Miller 9781857549454
RRP: £9.95£6.97The six sequences of "There Is an Anger that Moves" travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems which move sometimes to the measure... -
Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition by Professor Giacomo Leopardi 9780374533052
RRP: £24.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533052Author Professor Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Threadbare Coat: Selected Poems by Thomas A. Clark
RRP: £12.99£8.94Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. This Selected Poems celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer - a vivid minimalist, ruralist and... -
Collected Poems 1946-1996 by David Shoemaker 9780997668667
RRP: £7.41£6.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997668667Author David ShoemakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Temple of the Silver StarPublisher Temple of the Silver StarWeight(grams) 195g -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: £20.00£15.89An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose... -
Tormentil by Ian Humphreys 9781913437787
RRP: £10.99£7.64'I can't face the big stuff so I comb the moors for a tiny yellow flower' - so begins Tormentil, the second poetry collection by Ian Humphreys. Set largely in the starkly beautiful West Yorkshire moorlands, these poems creep and bloom across geographies... -
New and Selected Poems: Ruth Bidgood by Ruth Bidgood 9781854113771
£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113771Author Ruth BidgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After by Vera Brittain
RRP: £10.99£6.47This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiance, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £8.99£6.45Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit... -
bandit country by James Conor Patterson
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T.S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZEbandit country, the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson, is a rollicking, hyper-literate and at times deeply... -
Passion by Jude Morgan
RRP: £9.99£6.80Jude Morgan brings the world of Keats, Byron and Shelley to life in a stunning novel of supercharged emotion, individualism, violence and sensuality.They were the Romantic generation, famous and infamous, and in their short, extraordinary lives, they... -
Poems Of Friendship by Peter Washington 9781857157192
RRP: £12.00£8.44There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion, the present selection draws on the literature of many periods... -
The Selected Poems by A. R. Ammons 9780393303964
RRP: £15.00£12.75To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work...