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Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £10.99£7.77Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective,... -
Poems 1960-2000 by Fleur Adcock
RRP: £14.99£11.66Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational... -
Mothersong by Amy Acre 9781526650696
RRP: £9.99£7.11A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood - the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamas) **Shortlisted for the John... -
Selected Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: £12.99£9.09The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards... -
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham... -
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
RRP: £9.95£6.78To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both... -
The Prophet: With Original 1923 Illustrations by the Author by Kahlil Gibran 9781947844933
£7.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947844933Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £40.00£29.39This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of... -
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
RRP: £12.00£8.44Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and... -
The English River: a journey down the Thames in poems & photographs by Virginia Astley
RRP: £12.00£8.00Virginia Astley has been a much admired songwriter and musician since the 1980s, known for her engaging lyrics as well as for her melodious style. Now her other two passions take centre stage in this book: poetry and the River Thames. She grew up by the... -
Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings by Christine Alexander
RRP: £12.99£9.33'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories,... -
Proofs and Theories by Louise Gluck 9781857543902
RRP: £12.95£8.91A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
RRP: £14.99£11.35This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and... -
Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
RRP: £8.95£6.32The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane... -
Selected Poems of Mick Imlah by Mick Imlah
RRP: £12.99£8.56Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length... -
One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £19.99£18.80"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual... -
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: £10.99£7.77Horace (65-8 BC) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Horace's Odes and Epodes constitute a body of Latin poetry equalled only by Virgil's,... -
Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle 9781800173231
RRP: £14.99£10.77'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow - and even glimpses of 'full sun'. This selection from his own work does not... -
Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes by Simon Armitage 9780571384457
RRP: £14.99£9.80Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations... -
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £25.00£16.99It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as... -
Salacia by Mari Ellis Dunning 9781912109258
RRP: £8.00£5.80In these poems, women raise their voices and subvert the age-old tales told on their behalf: Roman goddess Salacia explores her tumultuous relationship with Neptune; Gwen Ellis, the first woman hanged for witchcraft in Wales, reflects on her impending... -
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present by John Hollander
RRP: £10.99£7.77''A sonnet is a moment's monument,'' said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection - whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or celebration - reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight... -
Poems by Victor Teran 9780956057617
RRP: £4.00£3.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956057617Author Victor TeranPage Count 32Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Doshi 9781780371979
RRP: £10.99£7.40Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is an unflinching collection of poems that weave between topics from violence against women to time and memory. Tishani Doshi's third full collection in English blends visceral power with artistic elegance, re-imagining... -
A Painter and a Poet: Conversations in Colour by Alice Mumford 9781915670069
RRP: £20.00£12.86This beautiful book, of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh, brings together exciting new work from the two makers. Collaboration is perhaps not the right word for a project in which paintings and poems sit side by side, each illuminating... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £11.99£8.43This 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 Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his... -
Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: £9.99£7.11A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected... -
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition by Andrea Zanzotto
RRP: £30.00£29.65Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. The first comprehensive collection in thirty years to translate this master European poet for an English-speaking audience, "The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto"... -
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney 9780571175376
RRP: £16.99£11.58These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to... -
Art of Escape by Mina Gorji
RRP: £9.99£6.99A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the... -
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver 9780399563249
RRP: £31.00£19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563249Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Poems Of The Sea by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: £12.00£8.44Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired... -
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 9780872863101
RRP: £11.99£8.00The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition. Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956... -
Omeros by Derek Walcott
RRP: £17.99£12.20A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African... -
Mappa Mundi by Philip Gross
RRP: £7.95£5.76The medieval Mappa Mundi showed the real world hedged about with wonders. Philip Gross's new poems are as vividly observed and sometimes fabulous as the traveler's tales of antiquity. Like those creatures in the margins of old maps they are hybrids of... -
Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers by Melody Godfred
RRP: £12.99£8.18Readers have called her work "life changing," "pandemic medicine," and "part of my daily ritual." Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry... -
Gasoline by Gregory Corso
RRP: £11.99£8.00Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and... -
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond
RRP: £9.99£7.06Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry PrizeRichard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a... -
The Edge of Glory - Prayers in the Celtic Tradition by David Adam
RRP: £9.99£7.05In the Celtic way of prayer the divine glory was intertwined with the ordinariness of everyday events like the patterns on carvings and illuminated gospels. The modern prayers in this book beautifully recapture that tradition. They were composed in a...