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The Limerickiad - Volume 1: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare Andy Croft 9780956814425
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956814425Author Andy CroftFormat PaperbackImprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 323g -
The Self-Dismembered Man by Guillaume Apollinaire 9780819566911
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $27.71Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire... -
Collected Poems of Therese of Lisieux by St.Therese of Lisieux, 9780852445471
Booksplease Price: $27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852445471Author St.Therese of Lisieux,Format PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Indelible Miraculous by Julia Darling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.30This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling's death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: "The poems are funny, irreverent, moving and never sentimental. You can recognise yourself in... -
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.41Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize A Sunday Times, New Statesman and... -
Desire Lines by Jessica Mookherjee 9781915079916
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915079916Author Jessica MookherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)... -
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire 9780811200073
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $20.09Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and... -
Sonnets for Michelangelo by Vittoria Colonna
Booksplease Price: $59.34The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by the generation's leading male literati as an equal,... -
The Complete Poems by William Blake 9781420963977
Booksplease Price: $32.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420963977Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *... -
Complete Poems: Dual Language by Guido Cavalcanti 9781847492944
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.02Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural... -
Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.34The world of Beauty/Beauty is 'built from the nose/out, like a painting', accumulating its various feelings, ideas, objects, disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing. Preoccupied with demise and loss, as well as reimagination and... -
When I Go by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781532603327
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $32.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532603327Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
New Wings: Poems 1977-2007 Robyn Bolam 9781852247782
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.94The poems in "New Wings" focus on many different kinds of beginnings. Drawn both from new poems as well as from two earlier collections, the book gives a fresh airing to the poetry of a talented writer whose work has been unavailable for many years. The... -
"The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: v.1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780195087406
Booksplease Price: $70.22This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special... -
Selected Poems Federico Garcia Lorca 9781780376103
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.78Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking... -
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo by Buonarroti Michelangelo
Booksplease Price: $33.52Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic... -
100 Poems by Umberto Saba 9781800171930
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.80Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a sparse education but was writing distinctive poetry before he was twenty,... -
John Keats: Selected Writings by John Barnard
Booksplease Price: $35.24This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-1821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Keats's work... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown
RRP: $34.11Booksplease Price: $26.44Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
The Cinder Path by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.94Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with... -
Henri Michaux - Life in the Folds by Henri Michaux 9781939663061
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.86Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive energies in which the poet... -
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo: Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation by Michelangelo Buonarroti 9781487543624
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $43.76Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature. In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered... -
E-Mail from the Soul: New & Selected Leadership Poems by William Ayot 9780993030604
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993030604Author William AyotFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Sleeping Mountain PressPublisher Sleeping Mountain Press -
Emeritus by Brian Cox 9781857545449
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.52The leisure in which Brian Cox now writes his poems is hard-earned. Poetry, always his chief passion as reader and teacher, was forced to the edges of his life during the years in which he followed his other vocation in the world of education. When,... -
A Sinister Assassin - Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948 Antonin Artaud 9783035803563
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $22.83A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud's last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud's largely unknown final work of 1947-48, revealing... -
A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries by Susan J. Wolfson
Booksplease Price: $50.23A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than... -
Collected Poems Frances Horovitz 9781852249250
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.19Frances Horovitz's poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the... -
Fighters For Life by Michael Rosen 9781905192274
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192274Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 121g -
Apathy Is Out: Selected Poems: Ni Ceadmhach Neamhshuim: Rogha Danta Sean O Riordain 9781780375366
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.78Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the... -
Extreme of Things Jenny Joseph 9781852246815
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.40"Extreme of Things" is a large collection combining new poems with a thematic selection from recent books. It explores the duality of existence, a track which runs through all Jenny Joseph's work, whether for children or adults, in poetry or prose. This... -
Michael Drayton - Sonnets: Includes the Amour & Idea Sonnet Cycles by Michael Drayton 9781787370067
RRP: $19.97Booksplease Price: $18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787370067Author Michael DraytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Into the Night that Flies So Fast by Milena Williamson 9781915629173
RRP: $21.45Booksplease Price: $16.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915629173Author Milena WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus Press -
Darling Girl by S Niroshini 9781913268176
Booksplease Price: $11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913268176Author S NiroshiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Bad Betty PressPublisher Bad Betty PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Nil Nil by Don Paterson
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of dream-life, mystery and music, sexual obsession and the... -
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780872207547
Booksplease Price: $22.74Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than... -
Nature's Open Secret: Introductions to Goethe's Scientific Writings by Rudolf Steiner 9780880107150
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $46.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880107150Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
Poems of Rome Karl Kirchwey 9781841598116
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.78Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided... -
Old English Poetry: An Anthology by R. M. Liuzza
Booksplease Price: $40.93R.M. Liuzza's Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney's; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to... -
Earth House Matthew Hollis 9781780376226
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.55In Earth House, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. Beginning in the slate waters of the north, the book... -
The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence by 9781780373058
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.07The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence is the account of a young woman's stay in the psychiatric ward of a large hospital. The only time she feels safe is when swimming; the only place, the sea, preferably underwater. Selima Hill's 17th book of poetry -...