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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
RRP: $35.68$24.32Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199536788
RRP: $16.78$12.16This prose translation of the Odyssey is so successful that it has taken its place as one of the few really outstanding versions of Homer's famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus from the siege of Troy to his home in Ithaca, and of... -
Life Studies by Robert Lowell
RRP: $27.28$17.98Life Studies was first published in 1959.'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background... -
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324005407
RRP: $20.98$18.04Rainer 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... -
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $23.08$15.37Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and... -
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott 9780571313815
RRP: $42.00$29.36The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like 'In My Eighteenth Year', published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse,... -
Selected Poems by Paul Celan
RRP: $27.28$19.09One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought... -
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... -
What Kind of Woman Kate Baer 9781398706828
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,... -
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
RRP: $31.48$20.58When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift... -
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... -
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
RRP: $27.28$18.71Ted 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: $20.98$14.07A 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: $20.90$14.24To 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 You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $27.28$17.47A fantastic Christmas present for Neil Gaiman super fans ** AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 NEWS ** Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman... -
Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text by William Langland
RRP: $23.08$16.32This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, for its deeply imaginative religious... -
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Michael Nott 9780571362523
RRP: $52.50$34.84The 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... -
The English River: a journey down the Thames in poems & photographs Virginia Astley 9781780371955
RRP: $25.20$16.80Virginia 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... -
Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $14.68$10.77`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... -
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: $23.08$16.32Horace (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,... -
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... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones
RRP: $31.48$20.58In 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 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: $27.28$19.09The 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... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman 9780719568503 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81Collected 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: $35.68$24.23Collected 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... -
Selected Poems by Jenny Joseph 9781852240950
RRP: $25.20$16.80Selected 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... -
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $18.88$13.55Allen 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... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: $27.28$19.09A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A glorious collection of works old and new' Independent... -
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods Tishani Doshi 9781780371979
RRP: $23.08$15.54Girls 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... -
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot 9780571351183
RRP: $27.28$17.98'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... -
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Eavan Boland 9780393321784
RRP: $31.48$26.57Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle,... -
Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
RRP: $23.08$15.37'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... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $42.00$28.88George 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,... -
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver 9780399563249
RRP: $65.10$41.01Apologies 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 Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781788885195
$16.23Apologies 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 -
Circles of Hell by Dante
RRP: $6.30$5.23'I truly thought I'd never make it back.'Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
Salacia by Mari Ellis Dunning 9781912109258
RRP: $16.80$12.18In 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: $20.98$4.81Winner 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...