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The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot 9780571351138
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.59Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation between the two World Wars.This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's... -
Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781906188146
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.21An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labour and an emergency... -
Under Milk Wood (Collins Classics) by Dylan Thomas 9780008706555
Booksplease Price: $5.83HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood. On a dark moonless night in spring, the seaside town of Llareggub sleeps. Dreams of hope and... -
Selected Poems by U. A. Fanthorpe
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.98U. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity. Since her death, much of... -
All The Names Given Raymond Antrobus 9781529059502
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.68From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021'[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside.' Mark Haddon 'Moving deftly... -
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot 9780156332255
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156332255Author T. S. EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace International -
Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry by Nerys Ann Jones 9781781889091
Booksplease Price: $40.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889091Author Nerys Ann JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Songs of Love and Grief by Heinrich Heine 9780810113244
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $29.09A translation of Heinrich Heine's love poems. This bilingual edition includes an introduction by Heine scholar Jeffrey L. Sammons. The author aims to capture the meaning of the original, but preserve the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods.Book... -
The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.97This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems,... -
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $57.41For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition.The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete... -
Oxford Student Texts: John Milton: Paradise Lost Book IX by John Milton 9780198326007
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.71One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions... -
Between Mountain and Sea: Poems From Assynt by Norman MacCaig
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.80'Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It is... -
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 by David Norbrook
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.37The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great... -
Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Coleridge
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.94A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads... -
Poems by W. H. Auden 9780679443674
Booksplease Price: $26.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679443674Author W. H. AudenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 164mm... -
Man at Leisure by Alexander Trocchi 9780714549446
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.71Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi's writing. The poems included span a long period of time, and range from the lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on... -
Collected Poems by Laurie Lee 9780241625170
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $22.48A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning... -
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.56Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politics and reggae... -
The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse by J M Cohen
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.02'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and... -
Iliad by Homer 9780872203525
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.23"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781847496089
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.31Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time... -
Physical by Andrew McMillan
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $19.21*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of... -
My Family and Other Superheroes Jonathan Edwards 9781781721629
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781781721629Author Jonathan EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Art of Escape by Mina Gorji
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.02A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the... -
Battery Rocks Katrina Naomi 9781781727546
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727546Author Katrina NaomiFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.56Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective,... -
The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary by Peter Ramey 9781621389132
Booksplease Price: $47.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389132Author Peter RameyFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
You Were Never Broken: Poems to Save Your Life Jeff Foster 9781683645597
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.36At one time, Jeff Foster wanted to die. After a lifetime of self-loathing, crippling fear, and attempts to numb his own feelings, he was left on the verge of suicide. It was only when he opened himself completely to his emotions - both the unbearable and... -
At the Source: A Writer's Year by Gillian Clarke 9781857549867
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.84"At the Source" reflects upon a writer's deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Her creative journeys begin from those sources. The book opens with a house, Blaen Cwrt. A river rises, a tributary which will flow on to the Atlantic, and a family... -
Feed the Beast by Pádraig Ó Tuama 9781915079527
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079527Author Padraig O TuamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender by Jacqueline Labbe 9780719083211
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.33This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender.About the AuthorJacqueline M. Labbe is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative... -
Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.34An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets.Book InformationISBN 9781857157000Author Percy ShelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's LibraryPublisher... -
Collected Poems by Ann Duffy 9781447231752
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.62Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the... -
The Divine Comedy: Anniversary Edition: Newly Translated and Annotated with illustrations by Gustave Dore Dante Alighieri 9781847498762
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.56Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones... -
Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke 9781907587597
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.25Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is... -
Beastly Tales by Vikram Seth
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.44Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike'Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving... -
Come Here To This Gate by Rory Waterman 9781800173965
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.59Come Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and unexpected, personal, brash, hilarious, and wide-ranging. The book is in three parts, the first a sequence about the last year of the life of his father, the poet Andrew... -
Selected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780141185835
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.56Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful Suites and... -
Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.18This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in Under the North Star and What is the Truth?... -
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.68Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical...