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The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
RRP: $14.18$9.95The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is... -
Averno by Louise Gluck
RRP: $11.60$8.32'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Gluck's masterpiece' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores... -
The Wanting Way: Poems by Adam Wolfond
RRP: $15.47$10.32In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to "extend the choreography."In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: $11.60$8.93The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of... -
Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins 9780399589805
RRP: $21.93$12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589805Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis
RRP: $45.15$40.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work 2023 and PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781524732585Author Robin Coste LewisFormat... -
The Book of the Dead by Murial Rukeyser
RRP: $23.16$19.16Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American... -
Poems to Fix a F**ked Up World by Various Poets
RRP: $16.76$11.09Sometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best poetry when he was in prison for 'the love that dare not speak its name'. Nelson... -
Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $14.18$9.86This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life... -
New Selected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: $19.34$12.64'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIMEGathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. The renowned... -
Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief by Tom Zuba
RRP: $15.48$9.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600475658Author Tom ZubaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bish PressPublisher Bish PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 15mm -
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry 9781582430065
RRP: $20.63$14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430065Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Honeybee by Trista Mateer
RRP: $12.89$9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789559439Author Trista MateerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
The Essential W.S. Merwin by W S Merwin 9781556595134
RRP: $23.22$16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595134Author W S MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski 9780060577049
RRP: $25.79$19.29Apologies 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... -
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Emily Dickinson 9781435162563
RRP: $16.76$11.61Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: $16.76$11.73Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... -
Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: $19.34$12.64Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS). This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent... -
What Makes the Wave Break? by Toadhouse 9781645250203
RRP: $16.13$9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250203Author ToadhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm -
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive by Leonard Cohen
RRP: $43.85$29.40Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from... -
All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers
RRP: $16.76$11.13"A precise and elegant look at motherhood, love, and what it means to live." -Seattle Met A luminous new collection from Keetje Kuipers, All Its Charms is a fearless and transformative reckoning of identity. By turns tender and raw, these poems... -
Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
RRP: $19.34$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530011Author Don MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
RRP: $14.18$10.02THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEThe black poet would love to say his century beganWith Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actuallyIt began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors,Poetry whiners &... -
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
RRP: $6.44$4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486849010Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Collected Poems 1943-2004: N/A by Richard Wilbur 9781904130178
RRP: $19.34$14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130178Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 875g -
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson 9780811221757
RRP: $51.59$45.38The Gorgeous Nothings - the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear - is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $67.08$53.52The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only... -
Antigonick by Anne Carson
RRP: $11.60$9.33Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation... -
Sailing Alone Around The Room by Billy Collins
RRP: $15.47$12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. Nominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375755194Author Billy CollinsFormat... -
Deep Lane by Mark Doty 9780224099837
RRP: $12.90$9.18Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks away from nothing'. In the poems of Deep Lane the... -
Sonnets & Poems of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$8.00Shakespeare's sonnets are amongst the most admired, complex and beautiful poems ever written. This gorgeous new collection includes sonnets from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost, to create a comprehensive collection from the greatest... -
The Octopus Museum: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711498Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
New Selected Poems by Denise Levertov
RRP: $19.35$12.64This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her... -
Stranger to Nothing by Philip Levine
RRP: $15.48$10.32Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he... -
Lord Of The Butterflies by Andrea Gibson 9781943735426
RRP: $20.63$12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735426Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
Everyone at This Party Has Two Names by Brad Aaron Modlin 9780996259682
RRP: $19.29$11.43"Poignant, quirky, troubled, the poems in Everyone at This Party are reminiscent of James Tate, Bill Knott, and eternal Edward Lear. Rife with characters who stumble, speakers who suffer, and wisdoms that bristle with the darkest and lightest... -
Cathay: A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound 9780823288687
RRP: $36.11$28.60Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound's translations helped establish a modern style for American literature,... -
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: $29.67$20.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030934Author J. D. McClatchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman 9781982186753
RRP: $16.76$10.55Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the... -
The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems by William Carlos Williams 9780811227889
RRP: $11.60$9.35Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader-The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.About the...