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Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 9780393938371
Booksplease Price: $26.87This Norton Critical Edition includes: * Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's poetic translation of the great Anglo-Saxon epic-winner of the Whitbread Prize-along with his translator's introduction. * Detailed explanatory annotations and an introduction to... -
Bad Diaspora Poems: ‘A once in a generation poet’ Caleb Femi by Momtaza Mehri 9781787334373
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.15Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt.***WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION******A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Exceptional... Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first... -
A Season in Hell & Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud 9780679643272
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643272Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)... -
Station Island by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.14The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is... -
Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest 9781529073119
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.68I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.I want to take you back where you began,Find the scraps of you you hid in secretAnd bring them back to life beneath my tongue.Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost... -
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $18.27Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all... -
Christmas Poems by Wendy Cope
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.45For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and previously... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Smith
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.36It is New Year at Camelot and a mysterious green knight appears at King Arthur's court. Challenging the knights of the Round Table to a Christmas game, he offers his splendid axe as a prize to whoever is brave enough to behead him with just one strike... -
Victor Hugo: Selected Poems / Translated and with an Introduction by Brooks Haxton. by Victor Hugo 9780142437032
RRP: $24.84Booksplease Price: $20.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437032Author Victor HugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays by A. C. Cawley 9780804855402
Booksplease Price: $11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804855402Author A. C. CawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Everyman PaperbacksPublisher Everyman PaperbacksWeight(grams) 312g -
Digressions by Ian Duhig 9780992740979
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740979Author Ian DuhigFormat PaperbackImprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 96g -
Stone Sleeper by Mak Dizdar 9780856463976
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.88Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar's rich and haunting poems in "Stone Sleeper", his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form a three-way dialogue between the modern poet, the... -
Crow by Ted Hughes 9780571363162
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.14This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970) - the vital, shape-shifting collectionby Ted Hughes. Its context, including the integral role of the American artist Leonard Baskin and the significance of... -
Collected Poems of Idris Davies, The by Idris Davies
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843233077Author Idris DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell 9780140424577
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.19Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense... -
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.53This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and... -
The Major Works: including poems, plays, and critical prose by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.02This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays,... -
Feminine Gospels by Carol Duffy 9780571211302
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211302Author Carol Ann DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Purgatorio by Dante
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497008Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
God'S Gift to Women by Don Paterson 9780571177622
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.85After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson's second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not disappointed. In God's Gift to Women, straight... -
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324005407
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.63Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten... -
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $19.21*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018**Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018*'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one... -
New Selected Poems by Les Murray 9781847771674
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $21.76New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today;... -
All The Men I Never Married by Kim Moore 9781781726419
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022 and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2016. Short-listed for Lakeland Book of the Year 2016.Book InformationISBN... -
Over the Moon by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.00Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement,... -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781509842919
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.52'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.'Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.25Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an... -
The Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.84Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of... -
Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye 9781910312896
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.25Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined,... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.78Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
The Temple by George Herbert
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.53A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set,... -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.02Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2018 Pigott... -
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.59'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This beautiful,... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.90This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic's argument or to illustrate a... -
Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage 9781904634584
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $15.50The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was... -
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist - the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.80'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph _____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.59First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial selections of the poetry of ten of the most consistently... -
Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757709Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)... -
The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri 9780451531391
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531391Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of Shorter Poems John Williams 9781590179772
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179772Author John WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...