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Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $25.25$17.37Frank 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... -
Journal Of An Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Translation) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780982624647Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E. E. Cummings
RRP: $25.33$17.37This 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... -
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786837660
RRP: $17.53$13.40Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods... -
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
RRP: $48.75$36.31Spanning 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: $9.73$6.75With 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... -
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
RRP: $25.33$17.37Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and... -
Mothersong by Amy Acre 9781526650696
RRP: $19.48$13.07A 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... -
Inside the Wave Helen Dunmore 9781780373584
RRP: $19.40$13.22To 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... -
What the Moon Gave Her by Christi Steyn
RRP: $19.48$12.50It 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... -
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Michael Nott 9780571362523
RRP: $48.75$32.35The eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature.Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England's - and America's - most innovative and revolutionary... -
Shine, Darling by Ella Frears 9781916015920
RRP: $19.50$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916015920Author Ella FrearsFormat PaperbackImprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 7mm -
The English River: a journey down the Thames in poems & photographs Virginia Astley 9781780371955
RRP: $23.40$15.60Virginia 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... -
Selected Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: $25.33$17.73The 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... -
Runaway by Jorie Graham 9781784109950
RRP: $25.33$17.43Shortlisted 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: $19.48$13.86You 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... -
You Made Me Late Again!: My New Collection by Pam Ayres
RRP: $21.43$15.15With over fifty new poems from Britain's favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam Ayres' incomparable collection of works.Pam's poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In 'The Swifts' and 'The Pyracantha... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones
RRP: $29.23$19.11In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying... -
Selected Poems by Jenny Joseph 9781852240950
RRP: $23.40$15.60Selected Poems draws on Jenny Joseph's first four collections of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), Rose in the Afternoon (1974), The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983). The poems explore the duality of existence, a track that runs... -
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods Tishani Doshi 9781780371979
RRP: $21.43$14.43Girls 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... -
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: $21.43$15.15Horace (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,... -
Selected Poems 1930-1988 by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $25.33$16.69It 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. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to 'what is the word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of writing. It was as... -
Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.' Calvin Bedient, Poetry'He is scary, but funny, but scary. You would have go back to confessional... -
Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $13.63$10.00`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a... -
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver 9780399563249
RRP: $60.45$38.08Apologies 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 *... -
The Love Poems by Ovid
RRP: $21.43$15.15Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical... -
The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781788885195
$15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885195Author Robert BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
RRP: $25.33$16.83Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral... -
Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick 9781800173835
RRP: $23.38$16.17The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024. 'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir') The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $39.00$26.81George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn,... -
Salacia by Mari Ellis Dunning 9781912109258
RRP: $15.60$11.31In 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... -
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond 9781509824199 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.47Winner 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... -
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond
RRP: $19.48$14.18Winner 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... -
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present by John Hollander
RRP: $21.43$15.15''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... -
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney 9780571210916
RRP: $39.00$26.25Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is... -
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot 9780571351183
RRP: $25.33$16.69'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted HughesFour Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. This edition is based on the design made by Giovanni Mardersteig for his letterpress edition of 1960 and marks... -
Beowulf by Michael Alexander
RRP: $15.58$11.29Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: $19.48$13.86A 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... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $23.38$16.44This 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... -
Art of Escape by Mina Gorji
RRP: $19.48$13.63A 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...