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Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
RRP: $23.21$15.74If 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... -
Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams 9780811202343
RRP: $16.76$14.55This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of... -
The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Robin Robertson
RRP: $12.89$9.84Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Winner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that... -
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $16.76$11.04Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her... -
What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Kim Addonizio 9780393327090
RRP: $16.76$14.78A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections and two books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius... -
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar
RRP: $16.76$11.73*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... -
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $16.76$11.04Originally 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... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780143133582
RRP: $19.34$12.95A 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,... -
Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder
RRP: $20.63$12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434070Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 249g -
Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin
RRP: $15.47$10.32LONG LISTED FOR THE 2021 POETRY BOOK AWARDThe second full-length title to award-winning poet and former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Rhiannon McGavin.If the word stanza means "room," then this book is an orchard. Former Youth Poet Laureate of Los... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9781853264337
RRP: $6.44$4.46With 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... -
Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places by Julia Martin 9781595342515
RRP: $16.76$11.13In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in... -
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings 9781631490415
RRP: $51.59$45.38With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E.E. Cummings in his lifetime.About the AuthorE... -
Life of the Party: If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems by Olivia Gatwood
RRP: $16.76$11.73____________"I am stirred by the poems in this book - it is a sharp, unflinching collection of poems about girlhood, wonder, casual everyday violence."Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of 'bone' and 'The Terrible'In this multi-faceted collection of odes,... -
Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson
RRP: $21.92$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735219519Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
My New Job by Catherine Wagner
RRP: $18.00$13.34With 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... -
Calamities by Renee Gladman 9781940696270
RRP: $16.76$11.13"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and... -
Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $16.71$11.49Frank 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: $16.76$11.73"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... -
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $12.89$8.57A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations... -
Jimmy's Blues And Other Poems by James Baldwin
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807084861Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
RRP: $16.76$11.73The 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... -
Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo 9781505984347
RRP: $19.35$16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505984347Author Ijeoma UmebinyuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Leaves of Grass (Collins Classics) by Walt Whitman
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins 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... -
Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $51.60$37.91This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of... -
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
RRP: $15.48$10.89Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and... -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
RRP: $16.76$11.73A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set,... -
The House with Only an Attic and a Basement by Kathryn Maris
RRP: $10.31$7.47A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult lifeAs in life, she was a pain in the arsein death. He could hear her roaringall the way from the fifth circle,'Why the hell do you get to be in abetter circle than me, I'm... -
Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
RRP: $11.55$8.15The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane... -
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver 9780399563249
RRP: $39.99$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563249Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 9780872863101
RRP: $15.47$10.32The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition. Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956... -
Gasoline by Gregory Corso
RRP: $15.47$10.32Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $16.76$11.04Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry,... -
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Illustrated by Edward Gorey by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $14.18$9.44A 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... -
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World by Kendra DeColo
RRP: $16.76$11.13The Southern Review of Books's "Best Southern Books of April 2021" Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as... -
Poems: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: $19.34$14.13This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and... -
The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: $16.76$11.04POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely... -
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
RRP: $21.92$14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735990Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
RRP: $18.05$16.09Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr... -
You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $12.89$8.57Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.Book InformationISBN 9780876856833Author Charles BukowskiFormat...