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The Ice Age: poems by Paul Farley 9780330484534
Booksplease Price: $24.65Paul Farley's debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, was one of the most celebrated debuts of the nineties. The poems in The Ice Age are as engaged and engaging as ever, but also display a new philosophical depth: Farley's gift is... -
Selected Poems of Fulke Greville by Fulke Greville
Booksplease Price: $49.61Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an... -
Why Brownlee Left by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.54Why Brownlee Left, a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, confirmed Paul Muldoon's reputation as the most inventive voice of his generation when it was first published in 1980. The key figure in the poet's third... -
On Cigarette Papers by Pam Zinnemann-Hope 9780956896988
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956896988Author Pam Zinnemann-HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Ward Wood PublishingPublisher Ward Wood Publishing -
Oul Licht and other Ulster-Scots poems by Philip Robinson 9781905281305
Booksplease Price: $18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905281305Author Philip RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Ullans PressPublisher Ullans PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 4mm -
Sepulchres and Other Poems: Dual Language by Ugo Foscolo
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.72Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nichols's lucid verse translation. Expressing... -
The Malarkey Helen Dunmore 9781852249403
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.85The malarkey is over in the back of the car - As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it and... -
Five Books Ana Blandiana 9781780375380
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.22Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian governments. This new translation... -
Collected Poems: Anne Ridler by Anne Ridler
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.30'The Observer' described Anne Ridler as 'one of the best poets of her generation.' Her first book, 'Poems', was published in 1939, and her work developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the day - MacNeice and Auden, but also Durrell and Watkins... -
Illuminations: Prose poems by 9780811201841
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.09The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original... -
All the Prayers in the House Miriam Nash 9781780373621
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.35Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first collection, All the Prayers in the House, which holds at its... -
On the Motion & Immobility of Douve: Du mouvement et de l'immobilite de Douve Yves Bonnefoy 9781852241322
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $12.64Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a central figure in post-war French culture, with a lifelong fascination with the problems of translation. Language, for him, was a visceral, intensely material element in our existence, and yet the abstract quality of words... -
My Sister, Life by Bohdan Boychuk 9780810119093
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Alive Alive O Greta Stoddart 9781780371511
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.35People we love die. And at the heart of the grief there's a sense of wonder: we can't believe it, where have they gone, what are they now, what does that make us? We end up wondering at life too. Death takes us to the edge of living; grief leads us to... -
Curses, Foiled Again! by Evelyn Hood 9780573120206
Booksplease Price: $22.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573120206Author Evelyn HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Donegal Tarantella by Moya Cannon 9781784107871
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.85This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.About the AuthorMoya Cannon is an... -
Soul Gardening by Jeremy Naydler 9780954736736
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954736736Author Jeremy NaydlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint The Godstow PressPublisher The Godstow PressDimensions(mm) 175mm * 120mm * 5mm -
New Collected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner 9781857549478
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.84The first "Collected Poems" of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal poems she ever wrote. Claire Harman, the original editor... -
Collected Poems Rainer Brambach 9780857421715
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $29.56Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, defying convention, and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left... -
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley 9780916390952
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390952Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)... -
Collected Poems by Edward Dorn 9781847771261
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.69The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn s writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn s epic poem "Gunslinger, "this collection which is both wonderfully... -
Dissenting POWs:: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today by Tom Wilber 9781583679098
Booksplease Price: $151.53Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting... -
Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance by Deborah Parker 9780822312819
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $157.01Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah... -
Heavenly Life: Selected Poems by Ramsey Nasr 9780954966690
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.14Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society.Foreword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli."With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780486408835
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408835Author A L AlgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm)... -
The "Odyssey" of Homer: A New Verse Translation by Homer 9780553213997
Booksplease Price: $11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213997Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 104mm *... -
When Sonia Met Boris by Anna Shternshis 9780197601082
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $47.54Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union are a peculiarity in the Jewish world. After decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a strong sense of Jewish identity--but one that was almost... -
Ingrid's Husband by Paul Henry 9781854114389
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114389Author Paul HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 92g -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9781631491078
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.76The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and his faithful guide, Virgil, as they traverse the... -
All Just by David Herd 9781847771636
Booksplease Price: $25.08"All Just', David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcements... -
Coleridge's Philosophy: The Logos as Unifying Principle by Mary Anne Perkins 9780198240754
Booksplease Price: $228.95Coleridge's status as a philosopher has often been questioned. `I am a poor poet in England,' he admitted, `but in America, I am a great philosopher.' J. S. Mill's assertion that `the time is yet far distant when, in the estimation of Coleridge, and of... -
Dream Kingdom: New and Selected Poems by Tijan M. Sallah 9781592215317
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215317Author Tijan M. SallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 282g -
Night Talks by Elisabeth Rynell 9780999261385
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261385Author Elisabeth RynellFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books -
Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard by Norman R. Shapiro 9780226750521
Booksplease Price: $49.61Renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro here presents fresh English versions of poems by three of Western literature's most gifted and prolific poets-the French Renaissance writers Clement Marot, Joachim Du Bellay, and Pierre de Ronsard. Writing in the... -
Selected Poetry by Rainer Rilke 9780679722014
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Borrowed Landscapes by Peter Scupham 9781847770806
Booksplease Price: $28.49Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age... -
Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family by David Selwyn 9781857542639
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.85This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.Book... -
Union by Paul Summers 9780956417596
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956417596Author Paul SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 223g -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Jessie L. Weston 9780486431918
Booksplease Price: $10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431918Author Jessie L. WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Songs from a Single Eye Oswald von Wolkenstein (New Directions) 9780811229012
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $17.51The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was...