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Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E. E. Cummings
RRP: €15.46€10.19This selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.About the AuthorE. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first book, The Enormous Room (1922), was... -
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: €11.89€10.22Rainer 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... -
Selected Poems by John Clare
RRP: €15.46€10.82Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
RRP: €15.46€10.23Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the... -
New and Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
RRP: €20.22€13.78This volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes's writing life, and some new work. ... -
Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin
RRP: €14.27€9.52LONG LISTED FOR THE 2021 POETRY BOOK AWARDThe second full-length title to award-winning poet and former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Rhiannon McGavin.If the word stanza means "room," then this book is an orchard. Former Youth Poet Laureate of Los... -
The River's Voice: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: €11.84€8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098823Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
Life Studies by Robert Lowell
RRP: €15.46€10.19Life Studies was first published in 1959.'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background... -
An Ocean of Static by J. R. Carpenter 9781908058461
RRP: €14.28€9.88From the late 15th century onwards, a flurry of voyages were made into the North Atlantic in search of fish, the fabled Northwest Passage, and beyond into the territories purely imaginary. Today, this vast expanse is crisscrossed with ocean and wind... -
The Complete Poems Of Sappho by Willis Barnstone
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306130Author Willis BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Two Countries by Katrina Porteous
RRP: €15.46€10.23Two Countries is a book of poems about place: about landscape, community, and the shifting, provisional relations between them. Born in Scotland, Katrina Porteous grew up in North-East England. These poems explore the ambiguities of borderlands, from the... -
The Sustainable Nihilist's Handbook by Jonny Fluffypunk
RRP: €9.51€6.77The Genesis of this Revolutionary has involved an up-bringing of scientific exactness, complemented by experimental cross-dressing, existential fist-fights and being possessed by the spirit of a relentlessly swearing 17th Century Ranter. Nourished by... -
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 9780571328802
RRP: €17.84€12.14Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets.The... -
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan 9780571378906
RRP: €13.08€8.71Following their award-winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's latest work... -
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
RRP: €25.57€18.66Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur... -
The Baton Rouge Interviews: with Edouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin by Kate M Cooper
RRP: €27.36€24.66This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences... -
Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: by Edouard Glissant by Celia Britton
RRP: €27.36€24.66This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction a une poetique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from L'Imaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). ... -
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: €11.89€8.46As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.'Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of... -
Heine: Selected Verse by Heinrich Heine
RRP: €15.46€10.82'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in fact born in 1797. He was a restless and homeless poet,... -
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9781853264337
RRP: €5.94€4.12With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the... -
A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: €17.84€11.76Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest... -
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: €17.84€13.03A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of... -
Dylan Thomas: Everyman Poetry by Dylan Thomas
RRP: €8.32€5.95Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas's poems are visions of creation and morality.A collection of Dylan Thomas's most beloved poems.About the AuthorDylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales, is... -
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
RRP: €11.89€7.97Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and... -
I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: Poems on Pregnancy and Motherhood by Grace Pilkington
RRP: €16.66€11.33From the depression, nausea and constant burping of the first trimester, to the sciatica, sleeplessness and anxiety of the last; the elation and terror of early motherhood right through to the end of breastfeeding and her child's first day at nursery -... -
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
RRP: €15.46€10.19Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.POET... -
Dear Departed by Harry Eyres 9781905082803
RRP: €11.90€9.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905082803Author Harry EyresFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye -
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: €47.60€33.65For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition.The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete... -
indiom by Daljit Nagra 9780571372256
RRP: €17.84€11.66A cast of 'Indic-heritage poets' meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry. indiom engages eclectic, often Rabelaisian styles on subjects as various as the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel, Shakespearean comedy, Under Milk Wood, The Simpsons and... -
Selected Poems: with parallel Spanish text by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: €11.89€8.46'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 DISTAL POINT by Fiona Moore 9781910131442
€28.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910131442Author Fiona MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint HappenStancePublisher HappenStance -
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey 9780062688811
RRP: €20.22€15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062688811Author Nicole SealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas by R. S. Thomas
RRP: €20.22€13.73Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet.'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted HughesThe complete works of one of Britain's finest, introduced by Andrew Motion.About the AuthorR. S... -
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings 9781631490415
RRP: €47.59€41.86With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E.E. Cummings in his lifetime.About the AuthorE... -
Another Life: Fully Annotated by Derek Walcott 9781588266156
RRP: €35.64€28.71This near-definitive study sets a new standard for the kind of meticulous scholarship that Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry deserves. Another Life, Walcott's masterpiece of autobiography in verse. (D.J. McClatchy, writing in The New Republic, called... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: €13.08€8.71Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
And So This is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems by Brian Bilston 9781035031467
RRP: €15.46€10.45It's that time of year again . . .With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty-one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to the office Christmas party; from voting day for turkeys... -
Seasons Of The Heart by Alan Spence
RRP: €11.89€8.46This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.'One of Scotland's most accomplished literary talents' The TimesAbout the AuthorAlan Spence is an award winning... -
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
RRP: €22.60€15.27Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century.Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a... -
Beloved: 81 poems from Hafez by Hafez
RRP: €14.28€9.52Hafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets, thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi. Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential in the West. Interpreted variously as ardent mystic and lover, he fuses...