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Ninety-Nine Names of the Beloved: Intimations of the Beauty and Power of the Divine by Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski 9780998125824
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998125824Author Camille Hamilton Adams HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Sweet Lady PressPublisher Sweet Lady PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot 9780571247059
RRP: £14.99£9.80As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The... -
Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (loa #357) by Gary Snyder
RRP: £42.99£28.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537215Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 1000Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Oxford Student Texts: Robert Frost: Selected Poems by Robert Frost
£11.76One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.Making A Level texts... -
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Illustrated by Edward Gorey by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.32A stunning new gift edition of this much-loved classic, with the celebrated black-and-white illustrations by Edward Gorey.Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad.Some are good, and some are bad . . .The whimsical 1982 Old Possum's illustrations have been... -
The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: £22.00£16.02Poet, artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of poetic essays written in his youth, has sold over eight million... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath 9780571259311
RRP: £12.99£8.56The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are... -
Let Us Dance! The Stumble And Whirl With The Beloved: The Stumble and Whirl with the Beloved: The Stumble and Whirl With The Beloved by Chelan Harkin 9780578942810
RRP: £14.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578942810Author Chelan HarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Soulfruit PublishingPublisher Soulfruit PublishingWeight(grams) 140g -
Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
RRP: £9.99£6.99A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019. Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has... -
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson by Jeremy Noel-Tod
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it... -
the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace
RRP: £11.99£7.59Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third and final installment in her "women are some kind of magic" series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and... -
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy... -
New And Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver
RRP: £16.99£10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068779Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 21mm -
Poems for Travellers by Various
RRP: £10.99£7.51Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
How Long by Ron Padgett 9781566892568
RRP: £11.99£8.00Ron Padgett's title poem asks: "How long do you want to go on being the person you think you are? / How Long, a city in China." With the arrival of his first grandchild, Padgett becomes even more inspired to confront the eternal mysteries in poems with a... -
Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
RRP: £17.99£12.20If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to Joyce, Eliot and Pound, it was Pound's personality and position in the artistic world that enabled the experiment to transform itself into an international movement. In 1926 Pound brought... -
Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
RRP: £12.99£9.09The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which... -
Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
RRP: £19.00£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015 and Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594649Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage... -
Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture... -
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £14.99£9.70'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an... -
Pilgrim Bell: Shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize Kaveh Akbar 9781784743536
RRP: £12.99£9.09*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**'Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second... -
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 9781946482013
RRP: £16.00£12.70Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the... -
The Colossus Sylvia Plath 9780571240081
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery... -
More Gone: City Lights Spotlight No. 18 by Edmund Berrigan 9780872867666
RRP: £11.99£8.00A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. More Gone, number 18 in the Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow-up to his well-received memoir Can... -
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £12.99£9.09Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood,... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9781853264337 [USED COPY]
£17.10With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 9781853264337
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: £18.69£13.33This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings. Nichols's major female protagonists... -
My New Job by Catherine Wagner
RRP: £13.95£9.90With her third collection, Catherine Wagner assumes a mantle of responsibility. Each opportunity for productivity is a personal call-out; she responds, 'diligent and strict'. A repetitive stretching exercise produces sectional meditations on obedience to... -
Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski 9780060577049
RRP: £19.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060577049Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 9781423650980
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423650980Author Emily DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield 9781780376790
RRP: £14.99£9.80Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise... -
Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
RRP: £12.95£8.91Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have... -
Musical Tables by Billy Collins 9781035022489
RRP: £12.99£9.09"I've grown old-now my own namerings a bell."In each of the short poems in Billy Collins's Musical Tables, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with what he calls the "thrill of mortality" - flashes of... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780143133582
RRP: £14.99£9.75A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to livingFirst published in the 1920's, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century,... -
Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden
RRP: £16.99£11.67In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,' commented Auden,... -
Tarantula by Bob Dylan 9780007215041
RRP: £9.99£6.64Written in 1966, 'Tarantula' is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution. 'The good samaritan coming in with the words "round &... -
Leaves of Grass (Collins Classics) Walt Whitman 9780008110604
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over... -
The Raven and Other Selected Poems (Collins Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' "...Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." ' This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's... -
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £8.99£6.45Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in...