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Beloved: 81 poems from Hafez by Hafez
RRP: $25.20$16.80Hafez 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... -
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: $23.08$16.19The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the award-winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamie's lyric enquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten... -
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $31.48$20.58'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... -
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne
RRP: $33.58$20.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757341Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams 9781784106713
RRP: $52.50$36.37William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume I reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in... -
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
RRP: $31.48$20.58The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller'Gorgeous.' Glennon Doyle'Sharp observations on modern womanhood.' Sunday Times'Exquisite.' Fi GloverA stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today,... -
John Donne - The Major Works by John Donne
RRP: $23.08$16.32This 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 Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: $27.28$24.13"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the... -
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire 9780199535583
RRP: $20.98$13.46The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting... -
Cunto and Other Poems by Joelle Taylor 9781908906489
RRP: $23.08$16.04Rejected by our fathers, feared by our mothers, CUNTO tells the story of subversive butch counterculture that has been missing from contemporary LGBT narrative. Focusing on the private lives of characters from the gay scene, CUNTO speaks of the female... -
The Inferno by Dante 9781853267871
RRP: $10.48$7.27Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile... -
Major Works by John Clare
RRP: $25.18$18.14This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters... -
Essentials by David Whyte
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily... -
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney 9780571207985
RRP: $27.28$17.98Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book... -
A Lick and a Promise by Imelda May
RRP: $27.28$23.12A Lick and a Promise is the debut poetry collection of one of Ireland's most famed female musicians, Imelda May. Following the release of her first poetry EP Slip Of The Tongue in 2020, this collection contains 104 poems, including two each from... -
Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $27.20$18.71Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have... -
Frieze by Olga Dermott-Bond 9781913437800
RRP: $23.08$16.04Frieze by Olga Dermott-Bond is an astonishing and spellbinding debut poetry collection. Goddesses, saints, dead girls, creatures, mothers, and muses all gather in this collection to confide their secret histories and desires. Voices are recovered from... -
The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary Edition by Virgil 9780520254152
RRP: $52.50$41.12This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume... -
The Iliad of Homer by Homer 9780226470498
$25.37"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... -
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $20.98$13.94A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations... -
Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius
RRP: $52.40$48.13Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of... -
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $35.68$24.32W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume... -
Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $25.18$17.70`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of... -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
$24.23The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled... -
Collected Auden by W. H. Auden
RRP: $52.50$36.94This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It included the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works... -
Rainer Maria Rilke The Book of Hours: A Version by Robert Saxton by Robert Saxton
RRP: $25.18$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913201227Author Robert SaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The High Window PressPublisher The High Window Press -
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
RRP: $52.50$39.10Spanning fifty years of work, Collected Poems sees Clive James make his own rich selection from across his exceptional career in poetry.From his debut collection in 1986 to his dazzling achievements in the 2010s, Clive James steadily built his reputation... -
The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $10.48$7.27With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the... -
Jimmy's Blues And Other Poems by James Baldwin
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807084861Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
The Collected Poems: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust 9780143106906
RRP: $35.68$31.73As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of thirty-eight, he never stopped writing poetry. His verse is often playful, filled with affection and satire, and is peppered... -
Crow by Ted Hughes
RRP: $27.28$17.98Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural... -
Selected Poems by Lavinia Greenlaw 9780571379194
RRP: $31.48$20.58This Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to a distinguished body of work that has established Lavinia Greenlaw as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation. From her arresting debut, Night Photograph (1993), through five... -
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,... -
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez 9781639550203
RRP: $27.28$18.12The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern... -
Lark Water by Lorna Shaughnessy
RRP: $23.10$16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561292Author Lorna ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 7mm -
Faces of Love by Hafez
RRP: $27.28$19.09Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute... -
A Handsel: New and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead 9781846976513
RRP: $52.50$35.68Liz Lochhead is one of the country's leading poets. Her work has paved the way and inspired some of the most inspirational voices writing in Scotland today, including Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy. In A Handsel, the first... -
Memorial by Alice Oswald
RRP: $27.28$17.98Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve... -
Runaway by Jorie Graham 9781784109950
RRP: $27.28$18.77Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Book Prize for Ecological Writing 2021. A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie... -
Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: $20.98$14.93You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty & a promise of my love. -James Laughlin Across...