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Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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)... -
Victor Hugo: Selected Poems / Translated and with an Introduction by Brooks Haxton. by Victor Hugo 9780142437032
RRP: $26.75$20.01Apologies 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)... -
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $46.20$32.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451208637Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert 9780060783952
RRP: $35.68$25.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060783952Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 601Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 757g -
The Iliad by Homer 9781324001805
RRP: $63.00$54.29When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded it as "a revelation"... -
The Waste Land and Other Poems: Including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot 9780451526847
RRP: $8.38$6.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526847Author T. S. EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 74gDimensions(mm) 176mm * 106mm... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual-Language Edition by Pablo Neruda
RRP: $29.40$16.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039969Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 74gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Carnac by Eugene Guillevic 9781852243937
RRP: $25.20$16.80One of France's most important modern poets, Eugene Guillevic (1907-97) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never learned the Breton language, his personality is deeply marked by his feeling of oneness with his homeland. His poetry has a... -
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9781847496119
RRP: $18.88$13.55Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been... -
Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $27.28$17.81One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. "If you... -
Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 9781852249977
RRP: $25.20$16.80Poet, novelist, and philosopher Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016) was one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness and the relationship between personal experience and self-awareness, imbued... -
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson by Jeremy Noel-Tod
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 9780241984482
RRP: $20.98$14.93Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
RRP: $27.28$17.81Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the... -
Poems by Cyprian Norwid
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935744078Author Cyprian NorwidFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 193g -
The Iliad of Homer by Homer 9780226470498
RRP: $31.50$28.25"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation-the gold standard for generations of students and general readers... -
Poems for Travellers by Various
RRP: $23.08$15.77Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
Selected Poems: with parallel Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.' Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James 9781529042085
RRP: $42.00$30.01Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the... -
Selected Poems 1930-1988 by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $27.28$17.98It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to 'what is the word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of writing. It was as... -
Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $23.08$16.32The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing lifeThis selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval,... -
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: $25.20$17.72From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty... -
The Lonely Funeral by F Starik
RRP: $25.18$17.41Every year, a large number of people living in our towns and cities - the homeless, suicides, illegal immigrants, junkies, drug 'mules', victims of crime and, above all, old people living alone - are found dead. Sometimes, they are not discovered for... -
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen 9780199555536
RRP: $23.08$16.74Peer 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... -
Here by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $23.08$15.23This is an exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marvelled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators... -
The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtromer
RRP: $18.88$13.55Over the course of his career, Tomas Transtroemer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential... -
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
RRP: $23.08$16.32`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud... -
The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer 9781556596858
RRP: $60.88$40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596858Author Tomas TranstroemerFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos David Harsent 9781780376493
RRP: $27.28$21.42Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) is generally considered to be - along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century. His life was, to say the least, troubled. From an early age, he was dogged by the tuberculosis... -
The Selected Poems of Cavafy by C. P. Cavafy
RRP: $20.98$14.93C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native... -
The Remaining Men by Martin Figura 9781788641548
RRP: $20.98$14.68Acutely observed, incisive and precise, The Remaining Men sees Martin Figura combining precision, wit and compassion to produce a collection that is linguistically dexterous and deeply effective. Keeping his gaze on those whose lives are too easily... -
Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $10.48$7.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486838670Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' SpectatorDante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes... -
Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations by Miroslav Holub
RRP: $52.50$35.24Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with... -
Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies by Huw Pryce 9780199285464
RRP: $288.75$249.69Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range... -
The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse Hermann Hesse 9781583943137
RRP: $35.68$24.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943137Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $27.28$19.09A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple... -
The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot 9780199538867
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had... -
Beginning and End of the Snow: followed by Where the Arrow Falls by Yves Bonnefoy 9781611484588
RRP: $63.00$56.03Yves Bonnefoy's book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet's thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first, the wintry New England landscape he encountered while...