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Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
RRP: £19.00£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015 and Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594649Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage... -
Complete Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: £18.99£14.61Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £22.00£16.02At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a... -
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... -
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 -
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £8.99£6.45Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in... -
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... -
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £20.00£13.86Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Revised Prof Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408017975
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... -
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... -
100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith 9780486285535
RRP: £3.99£2.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486285535Author Philip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice 9780571233816
RRP: £14.99£9.80'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical... -
Woman Much Missed Thomas Hardy 9780141398310
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... -
If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope
RRP: £12.99£8.56Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil... -
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 Complete Poems by Emily Bronte
RRP: £12.99£9.09The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed... -
The Major Works by William Wordsworth
RRP: £12.99£9.49This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56Sweeney 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... -
The Soul Bird: 10th Anniversary Edition by Michal Snunit
RRP: £8.99£6.20Deep 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... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid
RRP: £32.00£22.69A bold, transformative new translation of Ovid's classicOvid's epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the... -
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324005407
RRP: £9.99£8.59Rainer 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: £12.99£9.09Clare'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 Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: £12.99£8.60Pablo 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... -
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 9781946482013
RRP: £16.00£12.70Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the... -
101 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486417790Author Philip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan 9780571378906
RRP: £10.99£7.32Following 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 Colossus Sylvia Plath 9780571240081
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... -
The River's Voice: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: £9.95£7.08Apologies 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 -
The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: £12.99£9.49This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism,... -
Two Countries Katrina Porteous 9781852248307
RRP: £12.99£8.60Two 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 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... -
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear by Edward Lear
RRP: £9.99£6.70Edward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lear's nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and ... -
Horace Opera by H. W. Garrod 9780198146186
RRP: £23.99£22.37The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780143039952
RRP: £14.99£10.95Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin... -
The Baton Rouge Interviews: with Edouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin Kate M Cooper 9781789621303
RRP: £22.99£20.72This 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 Celia Britton 9781789621297
RRP: £22.99£20.72This 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 Alfred Lord Tennyson 9780140424430
RRP: £9.99£7.11As 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... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman 9780719568503 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Collected 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... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems John Betjeman 9780719568503
RRP: £16.99£11.54Collected 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... -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: £12.99£11.46This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and...