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Some Limericks Norman Douglas 9781900565493
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565493Author Norman DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 168g -
Invisible Spaces by Jack Alun 9781910346471
RRP: $18.53Booksplease Price: $17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910346471Author Jack AlunFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Red Hand BooksPublisher Red Hand BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
The Last Wolf of Scotland by Macgillivray
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.151864. In a Santa Fe gulley, scalped Scots thirteen-year-old Robert McGee lies bleeding to death. The Last Wolf of Scotland is his dream, etched onto the plate of pioneer America, his scalp lock speaking back to him, a hallucination projected in a... -
The Point of Splitting Sally Read 9781852246853
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $12.21From London's hospital wards to rural Italy and the Great Plains, Sally Read's first collection eulogises the emotional and physical borders we cross, whether in sexual surrender, the squeezing of a trigger, or the point at which skin is pierced by a... -
New Collected Poems by Charles Tomlinson 9781903039946
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.09Charles Tomlinson's "New Collected Poems" gathers a lifetime's work, from the 1950s to 2006. A poet deeply responsive to English landscape, grounded in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Tomlinson is also a writer of international renown, with... -
Shepherd's Calendar by John Clare 9781857548914
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $31.06For the first time in nearly 180 years, this is a book that presents, side by side, two major versions of one of John Clare's most celebrated poems, "The Shepherd's Calendar". The final manuscripts of the poem that Clare composed are placed against the... -
Downriver by Sean O'Brien
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O'Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is... -
Selected Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.94During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his philosophical views and radical political ideas. These, ... -
Votes for Women: A Play in Three Acts by Elizabeth Robins 9781513270982
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $9.17Votes for Women! (1907) is a play by American actress, writer, and suffragette Elizabeth Robins. Having established herself as one of England's leading actresses with her productions of Henrik Ibsen's dramas, Robins retired from the stage to pursue a... -
The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan 9781915629159
RRP: $24.38Booksplease Price: $18.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629159Author Paula MeehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press -
Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches by Wilfred Owen 9781528717045
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528717045Author Wilfred OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.34There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled sampling of them. Included here are selections from the early... -
Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini by Alda Merini
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $31.94Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love... -
The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.27*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria... -
Rite of Passage Dom Bury 9781780375496
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.81Dom Bury's Rite of Passage is an initiation into what it means to be alive on the planet in the midst of extinction, of climate, environmental and systematic collapse. It is a journey into the shadow of man's distorted relationship with the earth. And... -
Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman by John Betjeman
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.80A charming new collection of previously unpublished and uncollected poems by Sir John Betjeman. John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation... -
Women in Comfortable Shoes Selima Hill 9781780376677
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.75Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is her 21st book of poetry, presenting eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women: Fishface: A disobedient... -
Montale: Poems Eugenio Montale 9781841598093
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.56Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of... -
One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Verlaine 9780226853451
Booksplease Price: $39.23French poet Paul Verlaine was a major representative of the symbolist movement during the latter half of the 19th century. Norman Shapiro's translations seek to display Verlaine's ability to transform into verse the essence of everyday life and make... -
Platinum Blonde Phoebe Stuckes 9781780375021
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.59Platinum Blonde is Phoebe Stuckes' debut collection. Whether wildly or wryly funny, each poem presents an episode in the up-and-down life of the wise-cracking party girl. On the surface, this is a world of dancefloors and bathrooms, glitter and girls,... -
The River Jane Clarke 9781780372532
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $15.21The textured language, vivid imagery and musical rhythms of Jane Clarke's debut collection convey a distinctive voice and vision. With lyrical grace these poems contemplate shadow and sorrow as well as creativity and connection. The threat of loss is... -
The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs Du Mal (English and French Edition) by Charles Baudelaire 9781420950366
Booksplease Price: $24.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420950366Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Last Geraldine Officer by Thomas McCarthy 9780856464218
Booksplease Price: $27.01The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ('Geraldine') family that has tilled the... -
Selected Poems by John Glenday
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.25Selected Poems collects the work of one of our foremost lyric poets, John Glenday. The elemental themes long associated with Glenday's name are strongly represented here: the sea, the sky; light and its absence; the spirit in the secular age; our natural... -
Memories with Thanks: Spirit Love Volume One by Michael G Lennon 9781434317360
Booksplease Price: $23.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434317360Author Michael G LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.15The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious... -
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen 9780199555536
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.48Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist... -
Manorism by Yomi Sode 9781802061932
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEA GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A wonder of a collection' Caleb Azumah Nelson'Thrilling ... once-in-a-generation' Jackie Kay'Genius ... tells a... -
Byssus by Jen Hadfield 9781447241102
Booksplease Price: $23.11Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced 'bissus', and meaning the mussel's 'beard', the tough fibres which anchor it to the seabed - is a book first and foremost about... -
Travel Light Travel Dark John Agard 9781852249915
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.59John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, Agard casts his unique spin on the... -
You Deserve To Be Happy by Hanna Helimets 9789916756713
Booksplease Price: $67.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789916756713Author Hanna HelimetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Book Fairy PublishingPublisher Book Fairy PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)... -
Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart 9781901677744
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.69Cat Jeoffry is a self-contained passage from Christopher Smart's eccentric 18th century masterpiece Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb) and the most famous piece of poetry ever written about a cat. Poignantly, Jeoffry was Smart's companion during his... -
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass Harry Clifton 9781852249359
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.59At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together,... -
81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.14All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering... -
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.42During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to... -
New Selected Poems: Douglas Dunn by Douglas Dunn
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.35A generous selection of poems from 'one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today' (Robert Nye).In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the... -
Samson Agonistes and Other Poems: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition by John Milton
Booksplease Price: $29.25In Samson Agonistes, Milton's last great work, he addresses questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who were unhappy with the changes wrought by the Restoration. How do we respond to the experience of defeat, and to fears of having... -
Ten Poems from Wales Gillian Clarke 9781907598166
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598166Author Gillian ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm -
The City by Stav Poleg 9781800172371
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.59Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2023. Stav Poleg's poems are about cities, what they contain and what they lack; and all cities are habitable and analogous, The City: London, New York, London, New York, Rome. 'Think... -
my name is abilene by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.56Sennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. Imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgeshire, only to discover that the inhabitants are far more frightening than the carnival. Rich...