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Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish
RRP: £14.99£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375526Author Najwan DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Shingle Street by Blake Morrison
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track,A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet,A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap, A wrecking ground, that's Shingle Street.'Blake Morrison's first two collections, Dark Glasses (1984) and The Ballad of a Yorkshire Ripper (1987)... -
Selected Poems by Robert Graves 9780571315086
RRP: £10.00£8.77No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... -
Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 by Jo Shapcott
RRP: £13.99£9.17Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination and justifies her reputation as one... -
Collected Poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
RRP: £19.95£19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630963Author Eilean Ni ChuilleanainFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University... -
Picasso, I Want My Face Back by Grace Nichols
RRP: £9.95£6.78Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' Picasso, I Want My Face Back. The collection opens with a long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who, as Picasso's muse and mistress, was the inspiration for his iconic... -
What is the Grass by Mark Doty
RRP: £16.99£12.28Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American - keeps... -
Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back by Alicia Cook
RRP: £11.99£8.43Sorry I haven't texted you back, (I've been so anxious and depressed) I haven't had time to catch my breath, you know how life gets!Returning to the form of Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back is a poetic mixtape dedicated to... -
Poems And Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00£8.44The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are... -
To Love a Woman by Diana Bellessi
RRP: £7.00£5.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916114197Author Diana BellessiFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Embark by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £10.99£7.77A new collection by Sean O'Brien - 'Auden's true inheritor', and one of our wisest poetic chronographers - is not just a literary event, but also, invariably, a reckoning of the times. Given the nature of our times, his voice is an essential one: there... -
Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck 9780374534097
RRP: £22.00£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534097Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Why Did You Leave The Horse Alone by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976395010Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 259g -
Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins 9780399589805
RRP: £17.00£9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589805Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Notes To Myself by Hugh Prather
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553273823Author Hugh PratherFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Is That all You People Think About?: a collection of modern haikus by Gordon Alastair Gordon 9781910931615
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A fine, if sometimes rude, collection of haikus inspired by modern life' Daily Telegraph'I'm in here!' yelled Mum.Hide and seek was spoilt again.We never found Dad.The word 'Haiku' invokes images of misty mountains, running streams and falling leaves. ... -
Burning Books by Jess Green 9781909136625
RRP: £9.99£6.99The first collection by poet Jess Green is taken from her spoken word show set in an inner city secondary school suffering the cuts and blows of the Coalition government. Burning Books champions the underdogs; the unnoticed and unheard stories bearing... -
Poems of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, A Classic Collection Book by Debbie Brewer 9780244851811
RRP: £8.99£7.93Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was a successful American novelist. He was famous for four novels; 'This Side Of Paradise', 'The Beautiful And Damned', 'The Great Gatsby', and 'Tender Is The Night', which earned him recognition as one of the... -
Empathy by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
RRP: £12.99£11.46Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once... -
Proensa by George Economou
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370309Author George EconomouFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Falling Toward the Moon by r.h. Sin
RRP: £12.99£8.18From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget... -
The Book of Lieder by Richard Stokes 9780571224395
RRP: £40.00£27.68This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of... -
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, From Postwar to Millennium by Jerome Rothenberg
RRP: £35.00£28.74As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. "Poems for the Millennium" captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary... -
Distance and Memory by Peter Davidson 9781847771551
RRP: £14.95£10.74This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place - a house in northern... -
Granta 160 by Sigrid Rausing 9781909889491
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889491Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 20mm * 145mm... -
Second World War Poems by Hugh Haughton 9780571382606
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis,... -
The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Aucassin and Nicolette by Glyn S. Burgess 9780367183554
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nicolette,' alongisde textual notes and a bibliography for both.About the AuthorGlyn S. Burgess, Anne Elizabeth... -
Works and Days by Hesiod
RRP: £8.99£7.07'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARDA new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works... -
Robert Frost's Poems by Robert Frost 9780312983321
£6.56Frost is one of the foremost writers of American poetry. This is a thorough compilation of his seminal works.Book InformationISBN 9780312983321Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's... -
Epic Annette: A Heroine's Tale by Anne Weber
RRP: £11.99£8.00Could you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: £16.99£11.67WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
New Collected Poems by W. S. Graham
RRP: £20.00£13.46'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' Harold Pinter. From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of... -
War Stories and Poems by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £10.99£7.77A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from... -
Shattering The Silence by Annamarie Vickers 9781008993815
RRP: £9.98£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008993815Author Annamarie VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 210g -
Complete Poems: R. F. Langley by Jeremy Noel-Tod
RRP: £14.99£10.77R.F. Langley is known for his meticulous observation of the natural world and his highly original voice. This volume brings together his two previous Carcanet collections, Collected Poems (2000) and The Face of It (2007), along with his celebrated but... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780199599028
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London... -
The Oneworld Book of Prayer: A Treasury of Prayers from Around the World by Juliet Mabey
RRP: £9.99£7.11Gathering together prayers from around the globe and down the centuries, including works from authors such as Rumi, Saint Theresa of Avila, Beethoven, and Michelangelo, this unique collection offers a treasury of inspiration for anyone seeking spiritual... -
Collected Poems by Sidney Keyes 9781857545807
RRP: £24.95£15.89Including a wide variety of poems and dramatic monologues, this collection of Sidney Keyes s work demonstrates the poet s mastery of literature. Keyes was considered by some to be a prodigy, writing strikingly even before his undergraduate years at... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £22.49£15.94The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
The Fire People: A Collection of Black British Poetry by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £16.99£13.56This seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 1998. It celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names.Inspired and influenced by roots, reggae and hip-hop, this...