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Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has... -
Selected Poems 1968-2014 by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $21.92$14.94Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals',... -
Crow by Ted Hughes
RRP: $16.76$11.04Crow 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... -
Ovid Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris by E. J. Kenney 9780198149699
$25.17Since 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... -
Hidden Words: Collected Poems by Spike Milligan
RRP: $16.76$11.73Spike Milligan's Hidden Words: Collected Poems is an emotional, surprising collection of tender(ish) moments.The complete poems of Spike Milligan, Hidden Words consists of three individual volumes now collected together (SMALL DREAMS OF A SCORPION, OPEN... -
Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: $12.89$9.17This 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 Sidney's poetry and prose - all the major writing, complemented by... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: $32.25$23.09Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the... -
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
RRP: $24.50$16.55Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century.Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a... -
Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas 9780571376438
RRP: $16.76$11.04Floodmeadow 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... -
Faces of Love by Hafez
RRP: $16.76$11.73Acclaimed 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... -
The Lonely Funeral by F Starik
RRP: $15.47$10.69Every year, a large number of people living in our towns and cities - the homeless, suicides, illegal immigrants, junkies, drug 'mules', victims of crime and, above all, old people living alone - are found dead. Sometimes, they are not discovered for... -
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney 9780571175376
RRP: $21.92$14.94These 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... -
Lumen Tiffany Atkinson 9781780375304
RRP: $14.18$9.55How 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... -
The Woman Who Was Not There by Joelle Taylor
RRP: $12.89$9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909136397Author Joelle TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Burning Eye BooksPublisher Burning Eye BooksWeight(grams) 130g -
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $12.89$8.57Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.Book InformationISBN 9780876851913Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: $16.76$11.09Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to know about poetry would go to someone who knew something... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill 9780198713180
RRP: $43.85$39.81Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
RRP: $16.76$11.53Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024. Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize 2024. The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2023. A... -
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $16.76$10.73Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost in Plain English by Professor John Milton 9780963962157
RRP: $17.16$16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963962157Author Professor John MiltonFormat PaperbackImprint New Arts LibraryPublisher New Arts LibraryWeight(grams) 513g -
Poems: (2015) third edition J. H. Prynne 9781780371542
RRP: $32.25$22.42J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through... -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pope
RRP: $9.02$6.62Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21... -
Three Births by K Patrick 9781915051097
RRP: $16.76$11.04An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings,... -
Love & Poetry by Atticus
RRP: $21.92$14.89From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars, and The Truth About Magic comes LVOE., a dazzling new journey into the great unknown by Atticus. Featuring over 250 brand new poems, this sees Atticus take his readers... -
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden 9781471134906 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$2.95In 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... -
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden
RRP: $12.89$8.27In 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... -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781789295467
RRP: $16.76$10.73Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from... -
Diiwaanka Siinley by Yuusuf Cismaan Cabdille 9781678023348
RRP: $108.66$16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678023348Author Yuusuf Cismaan CabdilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *... -
Selected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $12.89$9.17Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and his celebratory later verse, 'To... -
Persian Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: $15.48$10.89Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider... -
The Terrorist at My Table Imtiaz Dharker 9781852247355
RRP: $16.76$11.09An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are... -
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus 9781908058522
RRP: $12.89$9.02*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize * The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut... -
Here by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $14.18$9.35This is an exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marvelled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators... -
Rapture's Road: From the author of All Down Darkness Wide Sean Hewitt 9781787334274
RRP: $16.77$11.74In this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland'Points to a bright future for Irish poetry' SUNDAY TIMES'An exquisitely calm and insightful... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: $19.34$16.19One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: $19.34$12.64Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS). This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent... -
Fasti by Ovid
RRP: $15.47$10.87'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their... -
The Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: $21.92$15.31'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $11.60$7.84In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
RRP: $14.18$10.02Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus' mastery of poetic forms as diverse as the lyric, the...