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Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming by Tao Yuanming 9781556596728
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Horace: Poems by Horace
RRP: £9.99£7.51Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil. He was famous during his lifetime, and continued to be posthumously, for his odes and epodes, his... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek... -
Riddle & Bind by Nick Montfort 9780980139273
RRP: £20.00£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980139273Author Nick MontfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Spineless BooksPublisher Spineless BooksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Alisoun Sings by Caroline Bergvall 9781643620015
RRP: £12.99£8.63Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic, proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way across narratives of genders, and addresses the brutality of social conventions with caustic humor. This labyrinthine text... -
Tai Chi Secrets Ancient Masters: Selected Readings from the Masters by Jwing-Ming Yang 9781886969711
RRP: £10.99£8.29Over the course of several centuries the Ancient Masters practiced and pondered the mystery and purpose of Tai Chi Chuan, preserving their profound insights in songs and poems. Shrouded in secrecy, these songs and poems were closely guarded jewels and... -
Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil 9781937658243
RRP: £11.99£9.79Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the... -
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the... -
These Are My Big Girl Pants: Poetry and Paintings on Womanhood by Amber Vittoria
RRP: £11.99£7.59With vibrant ribbons of color and joyous words, These Are My Big Girl Pants depicts the complexities and nuances of being a woman in this world.From award-winning artist Amber Vittoria comes These Are My Big Girl Pants, a collection of poetry and artwork... -
Box Rooms by Laurie Bolger 9781909136786
£14.52Laurie Bolger's debut collection Box Rooms shows that poetry can be your friend. With extraordinary warmth, the poems build into a conversation of friendship, communities, vegetables, pubs, tea, love and the meanings we find in these and in each other... -
Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones
RRP: £20.00£13.35"Modern Women Poets" is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, "Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets". While its selections illuminate and illustrate her essays, Deryn Rees-Jones's superb anthology works... -
Ballistics by Billy Collins
RRP: £9.99£7.27It is no understatement to say that Billy Collins has found poetry a whole new audience across the English-speaking world. No poet writing today insists on such open, direct and courteous engagement with the reader, and no poet has shown the common... -
Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £8.99£6.08Included in Prufrock and Other Observations are the following poems:The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPortrait of a LadyPreludesRhapsody on a Windy NightMorning at the WindowThe Boston Evening TranscriptAunt HelenCousin NancyMr... -
Manorism by Yomi Sode 9781802061932
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEA GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A wonder of a collection' Caleb Azumah Nelson'Thrilling ... once-in-a-generation' Jackie Kay'Genius ... tells a... -
The Shadow of My Ancestral Tree by Nasha Solim 9781912092383
RRP: £12.99£8.18The Shadow of My Ancestral Tree speaks of many young women's experiences, particularly the children of immigrant parents. It is a collection of poetry about life, which explores themes such as trauma, grief, heartbreak, politics, family, hope, feminism... -
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book by Elaine Treharne 9780192843814
RRP: £32.49£29.81Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as... -
Selected Poems 1940-1979: Odysseus Elytis by Odysseus Elytis 9780856463556
RRP: £12.99£8.94This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his development... -
Beowulf: A Student Edition by George Jack 9780198710448
RRP: £35.99£30.15Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary... -
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
RRP: £12.99£11.78'A triumph ... A wholly original and creative mind' NEW YORK TIMES 'A multi-genre phenomena, it's a triumph of a creative mind' GLAMOUR 'Frightens and astonishes ... Combines Maya Angelou's passion and Sylvia Plath's devastating self-inquisition'... -
Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley 9780140424300
£9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140424300Author Phillis WheatleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff
£14.01This Norton Critical Edition includes: Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes.Laura L. Howes's full introduction along with Borroff's seminal essay, "The Metrical Forms" as well as her "Translator's Note"... -
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman 9780393353822
RRP: £21.00£17.08The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of ancient women... -
Chronotopia by Kate Fox 9781911570097
£15.74These poems come from a variety of residencies and random thoughts over the past few years; from the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run, from a Cheshire mill and a Muslim girl's school in Bradford. From a homeless project, a newspaper column,... -
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick 9780571215324
RRP: £10.99£7.32The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new... -
Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez 9781632430809
RRP: £15.00£10.20With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of the... -
A Two-Part Invention by Elizabeth Garrett
RRP: £6.95£4.98The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an interplay of the reader's imagination and the poet's... -
Poems for the Funeral Celebrant: Turning Tears of Grief Into Tears of Joy by Richard a Phipps 9781532647666
RRP: £14.00£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532647666Author Richard a PhippsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
If We Could Speak Like Wolves by Kim Moore 9781906613754
RRP: £5.00£3.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781906613754Author Kim MoorePage Count 26Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher... -
Homer by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: £12.99£9.09Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By... -
Travel Light Travel Dark by John Agard
RRP: £9.95£6.78John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, Agard casts his unique spin on the... -
Concrete Sea by E A Griffiths
RRP: £4.99£3.75The willingness to take risks with form and to push the reader's expectations of what a poem might be make E A Griffiths' poetry immediately distinctive. Here we find lyrical poems that are tiny, elliptical, often heart-breaking and utterly located in a... -
State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £16.95£11.75Darwish (1942-2008), recipient of France s Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal, the Lotus Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, is widely considered Palestine s most eminent poet. State of Siege was written while the poet... -
Photopoetry 1845-2015: A Critical History by Dr Michael Nott
£29.47From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Photopoetry... -
Whaleback City: Poems from Dundee and its Hinterlands by Andy Jackson
RRP: £12.95£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861445Author Andy JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press Ltd -
XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century by Campbell McGrath 9780062427366
RRP: £13.99£9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062427366Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 325g -
The Escape Plan by Henry Normal 9781916147942
RRP: £16.95£14.08The Escape Plan includes all of the poems from Henry Normal's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 shows, together with the most popular poems from each of his previous collections. "Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times ... -
A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu
RRP: £9.99£7.11AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu. In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and intellectual curiosity, Nwulu melds the golden light of... -
The Longing In Between: - Sacred Poetry From Around The World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology) by Ivan M Granger 9780985467937
RRP: £16.95£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985467937Author Ivan M GrangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Poetry ChaikhanaPublisher Poetry ChaikhanaWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Word Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets by Harry Blamires 9781138998445
RRP: £32.99£29.16Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by... -
Exits: Selected Poems by Pollock C Stephen 9781957638683
RRP: £11.00£7.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957638683Author Pollock C StephenPage Count 54Imprint Windtree PressPublisher Windtree Press