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White Egrets by Derek Walcott
RRP: $16.76$11.04In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime... -
Selected Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780451531865
RRP: $10.31$7.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531865Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 267g -
Balladz by Sharon Olds 9781787334229
RRP: $15.48$10.89Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Sharon Olds is a force of nature... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: $24.50$19.08When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a... -
Pagan Virtues: Poems by Stephen Dunn 9781324002314
RRP: $24.50$21.87In this meditative and incisive collection, Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on desire,... -
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton
RRP: $12.89$9.17James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and... -
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $12.89$9.17'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes... -
The Nightlife by Elise Paschen
RRP: $16.76$11.13In Elise Paschen's prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems ". . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world." In her third poetry book, The Nightlife, Paschen once again taps into dream... -
After by Jane Hirshfield 9781852247416
RRP: $15.48$10.32Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her... -
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich
RRP: $16.76$12.29"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.About the AuthorAdrienne... -
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis 9781933517414
RRP: $12.89$8.71A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous. If... -
The Best of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash 9781566637039
$29.84It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four... -
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
RRP: $21.92$16.36In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: $19.34$12.64Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting... -
God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town by Catherine Cohen
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318331Author Catherine CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 9781946482013
RRP: $20.64$15.98Good 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... -
Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa 9780822965213
RRP: $19.35$16.20The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape... -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot 9780571247059
RRP: $19.34$12.64As 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... -
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $16.76$10.94'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... -
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
RRP: $14.18$10.02*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018**A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017**A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018*'[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in... -
Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $16.76$11.04The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery and... -
New And Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver 9780807068861
RRP: $30.96$21.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2005 and Quill Awards (Poetry) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780807068861Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $15.47$12.13Although a very prolific poet-and arguably America's greatest-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing... -
Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems by Kim Addonizio
RRP: $16.76$11.09America's Kim Addonizio has been called 'one of the nation's most provocative and edgy poets'. Her poetry is renowned both for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit. With passion, precision and irreverent honesty, her poems... -
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
RRP: $21.92$14.94This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved... -
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir by Phillis Wheatley 9780486475936
RRP: $8.37$7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486475936Author Ellen Hatch BrewsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima 9780995716261
RRP: $18.05$12.37By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During... -
James Merrill: Selected Poems by James Merrill 9780375711664
RRP: $22.58$17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711664Author James MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 181mm... -
Our World by Molly Malone Cook
RRP: $34.83$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068816Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 235mm * 8mm -
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes by Denise Levertov
RRP: $14.18$12.46The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.About the AuthorDenise Levertov... -
Black Mountain Poems by Jonathan C. Creasy 9780811228978
RRP: $16.76$13.12Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded,... -
[...] by Fady Joudah 9781738412570
RRP: $15.47$10.69Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. Fady Joudah is the author of six previous collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short... -
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
RRP: $14.18$11.53Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections... -
Weep Not for Me: In Memory of a Beloved Cat by Constance Jenkins
RRP: $11.60$8.32The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet's death, complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien's etchings... -
Cave, The: Selected And New Poems by C.G. Hanzlicek
RRP: $16.77$14.22This collection spans twenty-five years in the career of this highly regarded poet. It features poems from the books Stars, Calling the Dead,When There Are No Secrets, and Against Dreaming, along with seventeen new poems.C.G. Hanzlicek won the Robert... -
The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9780142437681
$18.27When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic... -
Selected Poems 1908-1969 by Ezra Pound
RRP: $21.92$14.94This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative... -
Transformations by Anne Sexton
$11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083435Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 455g -
Crush by Richard Siken 9780300107890
RRP: $23.22$14.15The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic... -
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry
RRP: $25.79$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024366Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint