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A Change in the Air Jane Clarke 9781780376592
RRP: €13.08€8.81Jane 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... -
The Poetry of Horses Various 9781788166041
RRP: €9.51€6.89Since 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... -
The Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
RRP: €15.46€10.82Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life. Few people realise that it was written in 1927 by the... -
Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
RRP: €22.61€11.54Apologies 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... -
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
RRP: €13.08€9.44Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the most... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
RRP: €10.70€7.24A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose amongThe bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensongOf joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and... -
Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: €13.08€9.25The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to... -
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
RRP: €13.08€9.25Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: €14.27€11.82One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the... -
The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves by Kip Thorne 9781631498541
RRP: €47.59€41.86Nearly 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 Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: €17.84€13.03One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known... -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
RRP: €17.84€13.51Donne 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... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: €13.08€9.97In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she... -
100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith 9780486285535
RRP: €4.75€3.42Apologies 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)... -
The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: €13.08€9.25This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems,... -
Woman Much Missed Thomas Hardy 9780141398310
RRP: €3.57€2.96'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: €15.46€10.19Wendy 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... -
George Herbert by George Herbert
RRP: €4.75€3.55In 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... -
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews
RRP: €14.27€9.52Following 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... -
Selected Poems: with parallel German text by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus... -
The Soul Bird: 10th Anniversary Edition by Michal Snunit
RRP: €10.70€7.38Deep 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... -
What the Moon Gave Her by Christi Steyn
RRP: €11.89€7.63It is never too late to become all that you envision. Your birth happens more than once so sink into each feeling of uncertainty and ride with the waves. From loneliness, fear, and change comes a breathtaking collection of poetry that inspires strength... -
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 Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
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... -
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 9781946482013
RRP: €19.04€15.11Good 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: €13.08€8.33Apologies 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)... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780141393216
RRP: €22.60€16.67Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The... -
Poems by Wang Wei
RRP: €13.08€9.25Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his belief in a whole natural order, and his delicately... -
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 Colossus Sylvia Plath 9780571240081
RRP: €15.46€10.19Originally 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: €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 -
The Major Works by Alexander Pope
RRP: €14.27€10.03This 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 Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together with... -
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 Katrina Porteous 9781852248307
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 Little Book of Love by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: €8.32€6.10One 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... -
Aeneid by Virgil
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where... -
Horace Opera by H. W. Garrod 9780198146186
RRP: €28.55€26.62The 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... -
Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Duffy 9780330523936 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.28In a gorgeous pocket-sized hardback, Another Night Before Christmas is Carol Ann Duffy's magical contemporary reworking of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore. Beautifully presented, this wonderful festive poem, illustrated with Rob Ryan's paper cut... -
Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Duffy
RRP: €9.51€6.89In a gorgeous pocket-sized hardback, Another Night Before Christmas is Carol Ann Duffy's magical contemporary reworking of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore. Beautifully presented, this wonderful festive poem, illustrated with Rob Ryan's paper cut... -
Where Hope Comes From: Healing poetry for the heart, mind and soul Nikita Gill 9781398702769
RRP: €17.84€11.66'Absolutely beautiful and soul-enhancing poems' Matt HaigWritten against the backdrop of global crisis, Nikita Gill's new collection Where Hope Comes From shines a light into the darkness as we begin our journey back to hope. Weaving words that explore...