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Vita Nova by Louise Gluck
RRP: £9.95£6.97Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life. Vibrant, at times... -
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £39.00£35.72This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic... -
Archaic Smile: Poems by A E Stallings
RRP: £17.00£9.58In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life... -
Grandma's Attic: Mom's HDB, My Wallpaper by Heng Siok Tian 9789811806124
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this her sixth collection of poetry where the real, virtual and literary mix, Heng Siok Tian travels through landscapes and explores relationships of family, friendships, the familiar and the foreign. With her signature simplicity and honesty, she... -
After All We Have Travelled by Sarala Estruch
RRP: £10.99£7.64After All We Have Travelled, the debut poetry collection by Sarala Estruch, is a distinctive journey across time, continents and cultures, through memory and generations of family history, exploring the long legacies of empire and its personal and... -
Zonal by Don Paterson
RRP: £10.99£7.12Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue... -
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson 9781788162081
RRP: £9.99£7.40Shortlisted for the 2022 Plutarch Award A Washington Post 2021 Non-Fiction Book of the Year New York Times Review of Books Editors' Choice Non-Fiction Title Longlisted for the 2022 PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A Sunday Times... -
Lifelines: Wrestling the Word, Gathering up Grace by Carla Grosch-Miller 9781786222343
RRP: £12.99£11.01After the deaths of her brother, father and mother, the poet and writer Carla Grosch Miller felt that her world and faith had fallen apart. Numbed by grief and lacking any answers, she swapped going to church for going for long walks where, despite... -
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton by Tu Fu 9780811228381
RRP: £14.99£12.39Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton's original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu's best poems were written in the last... -
Beauty and Bands: Finding Beauty Among the Ashes by Henrietta Wisbey 9781400325931
£9.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400325931Author Henrietta WisbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint ELM HillPublisher ELM HillWeight(grams) 181g -
Still Possible by David Whyte
RRP: £18.00£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932887556Author David WhytePage Count 156Imprint Many Rivers PressPublisher Many Rivers PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 176mm * 113mm * 12mm -
A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman by Olga Livshin 9780999073735
RRP: £15.00£9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999073735Author Olga LivshinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Poets and Traitors Inc.Publisher Poets and Traitors Inc.Weight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong by Ho Xuan Huong 9781556591488
RRP: £18.00£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591488Author Ho Xuan HuongFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g -
We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage by Hala Alyan 9780892555673
RRP: £18.99£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555673Author Hala AlyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm... -
Considering the Women by Choman Hardi
RRP: £9.95£6.78Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society and... -
Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781784103361
RRP: £9.99£6.99Second Place winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf... -
Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.40Wayne Holloway-Smith's second collection Love Minus Love is an internal universe, fragmented and glued back together with uncanny logic. A strange layering of time, in which multiple things happen at once, in a looping track of intrusive thoughts - shot... -
West End Final by Hugo Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.70Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it. Childhood and school... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780393310399
RRP: £9.99£7.71Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young... -
Made Flesh by Mr Craig Arnold 9781931337427
RRP: £17.00£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Utah Book Award (Poetry) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781931337427Author Craig ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable... -
Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah
RRP: £29.95£24.06A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Born in Uch, Panjab,... -
Troy Book: Selections by John Lydgate
RRP: £35.00£29.22To introduce John Lydgate's landmark poem the Troy Book to students and non-specialist readers, the editor has selected the essential passages from the poem and bridges any gaps with textual summaries. Also included are an introduction, gloss, notes, and... -
The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer
RRP: £17.00£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525743Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell 9780446676816
£9.18Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to carry around their favourite poems, and ideal for the... -
Be Feared by Jane Burn 9781913437275
RRP: £9.99£6.99Jane Burn's new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from the Snow Queen to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of... -
In Nearby Bushes by Kei Miller 9781784108458
RRP: £9.99£6.99Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2020. Longlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet - the placeless place... -
Trip Trap by Jack Kerouac 9780912516042
RRP: £9.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912516042Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Grey Fox PressPublisher Grey Fox PressWeight(grams) 114g -
Arctic Elegies by Peter Davidson 9781800172630
RRP: £11.99£8.29This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has... -
Selected Poems by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
RRP: £20.00£13.35This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero. Akhmatova published her first book of poems... -
The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams by David L. Walker 9780691612508
RRP: £32.00£24.76Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the... -
Ten Poems about Mountains by Helen Mort 9781913627126
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627126Author Helen MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
Selected Poems by Thomas Lux
RRP: £12.00£8.00After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.' The later Lux... -
Salad Anniversary by Machi Tawara
RRP: £9.99£6.70This internationally bestselling book took the world by storm on its publication. Covering the discovery of new love, first heartache and the end of an affair, these poems mix the ancient grace and musicality of the tanka form with a modern insight and... -
Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
RRP: £9.99£7.11A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender,... -
Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry by Chris Beckett 9781784109479
RRP: £18.99£13.39The first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of this beautiful country.Book InformationISBN 9781784109479Author Chris BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Carcanet ClassicsPublisher... -
Ten Poems about Baking by Helena Nelson 9781907598807
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598807Author Helena NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
The Neighbourhood by Hannah Lowe 9781999679224
RRP: £6.00£4.41What is a neighbour? What makes a community? In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe focuses on the urban places she knows and loves, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under the extreme pressure. These poems look urgently into the future,... -
Kindertotenwald by Franz Wright 9780375711954
RRP: £18.99£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711954Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Olio by Tyehimba Jess 9781940696201
RRP: £24.99£17.122016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much... -
Three Scottish Poets by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £12.00£7.95MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners...