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Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems by Sebastian P. Brock 9780934893657
RRP: £30.00£25.25Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of... -
Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty by Nikita Gill
RRP: £12.99£8.60A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment.You cannot burn awayWhat has always been aflameWILD EMBERS explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your own skin,... -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake 9780192810892
RRP: £9.99£7.11Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretention and falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this... -
Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan
RRP: £9.99£7.11Selected by Sean Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko... -
Plum by Hollie McNish
RRP: £10.99£7.77A wise, rude, sharp poetry collection encompassing a life from childhood to attempted adulthood, from one of the most important poets of the new generation.'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love. She points out the absurdities we've grown... -
Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams 9780811202343
RRP: £12.99£11.28This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of... -
The Poetry of Horses by Various
RRP: £7.99£5.79Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of galloping together across open country. They provide... -
R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £5.99£4.40R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate.* Introduction by a leading author or... -
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.56Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her... -
Poem For The Day One by Nicholas Albery
RRP: £16.99£12.28This book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats, Shakespeare, Housman and... -
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194667Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 342g -
John Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman
RRP: £16.99£11.27Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction... -
All Of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver 9781860463648
RRP: £18.99£13.61Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put... -
William McGonagall Collected Poems by Chris Hunt
RRP: £12.99£8.96William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: £18.99£14.01One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with... -
A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.40Jane Clarke's third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place. In luminous language her poems explore how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present reverberate with courage and resilience in face... -
Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney 9780571144693
RRP: £12.99£8.56This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It... -
What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Kim Addonizio 9780393327090
RRP: £12.99£11.46A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections and two books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius... -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
RRP: £14.99£11.35Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassioned paradox, outbreaks of cynicism and wry humour make his work particularly... -
Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.Introducing Little... -
The Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£11.87'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive... -
John Clare by John Clare
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Zafarnama by Guru Gobind Singh 9780143425557
£10.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143425557Author Guru Gobind Singh and Navtej SarnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves by Kip Thorne 9781631498541
RRP: £39.99£35.18Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe's "Warped... -
Shine, Darling by Ella Frears 9781916015920
RRP: £10.00£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916015920Author Ella FrearsFormat PaperbackImprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 7mm -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
RRP: £9.95£6.97"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self-portrait, has become Ashbery's best-known poem. It is... -
The Complete Poems by William Blake
RRP: £16.99£12.68One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: £9.99£8.82Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world, while debates still rage as to the identity of the Dark Lady and how autobiographical the sonnets really are. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets... -
Selected Poems by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £12.99£9.09RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an outspoken critic of his... -
Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina G. Rossetti 9780486280554
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486280554Author Christina RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews
RRP: £11.99£8.00Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including... -
The Poem and the Journey: 60 Poems for the Journey of Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: £12.99£9.09Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write... -
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £18.99£12.83Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. Heaney and Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection,... -
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery... -
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding... -
The Soul Bird: 10th Anniversary Edition by Michal Snunit
RRP: £8.99£5.45Deep down, inside our bodies, lives the soul. No one has ever seen it, but we all know it's there. There is a "soul bird" who lives inside us all. This special bird opens and closes the drawers of our soul, in which we keep all our feelings... -
The Nightingales are Drunk by Hafez 9780141980263
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded'Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in... -
Love Makes a Mess of Dying by Greg Gilbert 9781912196203
RRP: £7.50£5.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196203Author Greg GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 3mm -
The Little Book of Love by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: £6.99£5.13One of the world's favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profound than when he wrote about love. He believed it was the raison d'etre of the universe. With the simplicity and lyrical beauty of The Prophet, his reflections on love and... -
Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder
RRP: £15.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434070Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 249g