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Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan
RRP: $27.28$17.47Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map... -
Complete Poems: Dual Language by Guido Cavalcanti
RRP: $23.08$17.75Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural... -
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear by Edward Lear
RRP: $20.98$14.07Edward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lear's nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and ... -
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson 9780141025018
RRP: $20.98$14.93A selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and playful celebrations of urban life, Johnson's use of Jamaican dialect to tackle distinctly British... -
The Major Works by William Wordsworth
RRP: $27.28$20.43This 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 Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by... -
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,... -
Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781853264153
RRP: $10.48$7.27With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into... -
The Complete Poems by Emily Bronte
RRP: $27.28$19.09The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed... -
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... -
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World by Kendra DeColo
RRP: $27.28$18.12The Southern Review of Books's "Best Southern Books of April 2021" Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as... -
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... -
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
RRP: $52.50$35.68Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a... -
After the Applause: Pandemic poetry of a frontline nurse by Andrew Ridgway
RRP: $14.68$10.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433496Author Andrew RidgwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $46.20$33.64At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a... -
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem by Harold Schechter
RRP: $20.98$14.93In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante 9781840221664
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... -
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786837660
RRP: $18.88$14.43Down 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... -
Dad, the Donkey's on Fire by Ian Mcmillan
RRP: $20.90$14.64A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine equally or often on all and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but keeps... -
The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward
RRP: $20.98$14.83Gerard Woodward's poetry has long been admired for its sharp and unflinching eye, its fearless surrealism, its blacker-than-black humour, and its ability to find a little abyss in any detail, no matter how innocuous or domestic. Here, his considerations... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: $29.38$21.32This 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 Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to... -
Unseen Poetry AQA English Literature by Richard Durant
RRP: $14.68$9.74Board: AQA Examination: English Language & Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Unseen Poetry Type: Set Text Study Guide As you know, poetry is worth nearly 40% of your entire English ... -
The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: $27.28$17.98POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely... -
Russian Absurd: Selected Writings by Daniil Kharms
RRP: $52.40$42.55A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. His writing, which partakes of performance, narrative, poetry, and visual elements, was largely suppressed during his lifetime,... -
The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850: A Norton Critical Edition by William Wordsworth
$33.98There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and... -
Noctuary by Niall Campbell
RRP: $20.90$14.24A noctuary is a diary for the late hours. In Niall Campbell's poems, this is a time for reflection, discovering what it means to be a young father, anxious, caring and protective, deeply connected to the new, precious life of another human being. The... -
Selected Poetry and Prose by Charlotte Mew
RRP: $35.68$24.32The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This Selected Poetry and Prose is edited... -
Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas 9780571376438
RRP: $27.28$17.98Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on... -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams 9781800173613
RRP: $42.00$29.51William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), like his friend Ezra Pound, never finished his magnum opus, a poem as impossibly ambitious as the Cantos, but richly invested in the present world. It was published over a period of a dozen years (1946-1958) in five... -
Selected Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780199555826
RRP: $14.68$10.77Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge... -
Ovid Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris by E. J. Kenney 9780198149699
$37.99Since it first appeared in 1961 this has been the standard critical edition of Ovid's love poems. For this new edition the text has been throughly revised to take account of published scholarship and the further thoughts of the editor. Conjectures have... -
Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry
RRP: $27.28$17.98Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between... -
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
RRP: $27.28$19.07'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite... -
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
RRP: $27.28$17.98In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
RRP: $27.28$17.98Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic... -
Lumen by Tiffany Atkinson
RRP: $23.08$15.54How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes the prize-winning sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of speech and found text from a hospital residency to pay homage... -
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden
RRP: $20.98$13.46In this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing 20 nationalities and ranging in age from... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid
RRP: $67.20$47.65A bold, transformative new translation of Ovid's classicOvid's epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: $39.88$31.06When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a... -
Beowulf by Michael Alexander
RRP: $16.78$12.16Beowulf 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... -
Selected Poetry by John Donne
RRP: $18.88$13.55John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'...