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Station Island by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $16.76$11.04The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is... -
Girlhood by Julia Copus
RRP: $14.18$9.44WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the... -
We Go On by Kerry Hardie 9781780377018
RRP: $15.48$10.32This is a book about the irreducible core of what it is to be human in a world that changes constantly yet repeats and repeats. It uses images that speak to a place in us that does not depend on fashion but braves that over-used word 'archetypal'. It is... -
The Poems of Norman MacCaig by Norman MacCaig 9781846971365
RRP: $32.25$21.92This collection of Norman MacCaig's poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son, Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems after his death; 99 have been selected for inclusion here. The... -
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
RRP: $16.76$11.73The perfect gift for Valentine's DaySelected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy... -
Skin by David Harsent 9780571382569
RRP: $16.76$11.04Skin is David Harsent's visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull.A visionary new collection from one of our most... -
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $14.18$10.02In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in... -
Incubation: a space for monsters by Bhanu Kapil 9781913513405
RRP: $15.48$10.71Originally published in America in 2006, and out of print for the last seven years, Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human... -
Islands: Sirens, Circe and Calypso by Stuart Montgomery 9781901538540
RRP: $14.19$11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901538540Author Stuart MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint etruscan booksPublisher etruscan books -
The Best of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash 9781566637039
$29.84It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four... -
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
RRP: $21.92$16.36In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual... -
Stranger in the Mask of a Deer by Richard Skelton 9781908058843
RRP: $12.89$9.02Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the... -
City Psalms by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $14.18$9.55City Psalms was Benjamin Zephaniah's first collection from Bloodaxe back in 1992. It includes some of his best-known poems, including 'Dis Poetry', 'Money' and 'Us and Dem'. Best known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults - and his... -
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: $16.76$11.04A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments,... -
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 9781435171374
RRP: $16.76$11.73Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem "The Raven," and the heartbreaking message... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: $19.34$12.64Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting... -
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
RRP: $19.34$12.64The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. ... -
From Our Own Fire by William Letford 9781800173439
RRP: $19.34$14.50A The Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year. This prose and poetry tour de force of storytelling has the narrative punch of a novel. It is a new departure for the poet, and for poetry itself. It takes the reader into the not-too-distant future: an... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $19.34$14.13Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 by Andrew Greig
RRP: $19.34$12.64What are the contours of a life? For Andrew Greig: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures, illness and recovery, increased awareness of mortality and... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9781853262630
RRP: $5.15$3.70The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be... -
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035038565
RRP: $14.18$9.69In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity.Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and... -
New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland by Eavan Boland 9781847772411
RRP: $16.71$11.49New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007), concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her work through more than a dozen collections, Boland continues to... -
Forever Alive by Fran Lock 9780993331183
RRP: $10.31$8.37A dramatic and enthralling new collection from acclaimed poet Fran Lock. Forever Alive abounds in strange survivals: some enchanted, some obscene. A she-wolf haunts the site of her extinction, a soldier is troubled by sleepless fear of the desert; a... -
God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town by Catherine Cohen
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318331Author Catherine CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 9781946482013
RRP: $20.64$15.98Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the... -
Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $16.76$10.94One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. "If you... -
Life is Sad and Beautiful: The Debut Poetry Collection from The Original Mummy's Boy by Hussain Manawer
RRP: $21.92$14.89** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **THE DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION FROM THE ORIGINAL MUMMY'S BOY, HUSSAIN MANAWER.'I remember the day I wrote my first ever poem, I was sitting on my bed in the attic and started jotting down lines on this little notepad, little... -
The Waste Land, Prufrock, The Hollow Men, and Other Poems by T.S Eliot
RRP: $3.86$2.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486849065Author T.S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot 9780571247059
RRP: $19.34$12.64As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The... -
my name is abilene by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
RRP: $14.18$9.55Sennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. Imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgeshire, only to discover that the inhabitants are far more frightening than the carnival. Rich... -
My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet 9781608467679
RRP: $19.34$12.75Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago,... -
My Alexandria: POEMS by Mark Doty 9780252063176
RRP: $18.05$16.90This is the first cloth edition of one of the most highly praised and touching collections of poems to appear in recent years. In selecting it for the National Poetry Series, Philip Levine said: "The courage of this book is that it looks away from... -
Lullabies by Lang Leav 9781449461072
RRP: $15.47$9.79Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Prelude and travels through Duet, Interlude, and Requiem with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry... -
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved by Maryam Mafi
RRP: $11.60$10.14A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world's most loved mystical teachers. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift for every MBS reader. Jalal-uddin Rumi was... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9780140187595
RRP: $23.22$16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187595Author Marina TsvetaevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
101 Sonnets by Don Paterson
RRP: $14.18$9.44Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas... -
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney 9780571321728
RRP: $19.34$12.64New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career.Shortly before his death... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143106296
RRP: $19.34$14.13Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold more than a million copies and become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil's Aeneid to a... -
Thirty Poems by Robert Walser 9780811220019
RRP: $21.92$18.85In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser's work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middleton's favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range...