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After by Jane Hirshfield 9781852247416
RRP: $23.40$15.60Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her... -
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
RRP: $29.23$19.11When 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... -
John Clare by John Clare 9780571234639
RRP: $17.53$11.86John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in his mental health saw him committed to an insane asylum. He published four volumes of verse, including Poems, Descriptive of Rural... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780199537488
RRP: $21.43$15.15The supreme Roman epic and the greatest poem in Latin, the Aeneid has inspired many of the great European poets including Dante and Milton. The Trojan hero Aeneas, after surviving the sack of Troy, makes his way to the West, urged on by benevolent... -
Collected Poems: with translations of Jacques Prevert by A. S. J. Tessimond
RRP: $23.40$15.60A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) was one of the most individual, versatile and approachable voices in 20th century poetry. Influenced at first by the Imagists, his poetry is remarkable for its lucidity and formal exactness and for its witty, humane depiction... -
Being Alive Neil Astley 9781852246754
RRP: $25.33$17.55Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively... -
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by Neil Astley
RRP: $23.40$15.60Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive series has 500... -
Selected Poems by R. S. Thomas
RRP: $25.33$17.73RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an outspoken critic of his... -
Nature by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: $21.43$15.15One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Nature Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically, Duffy also adds to her... -
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
RRP: $25.33$16.69WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONPostcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book, an anthem of desire against... -
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
RRP: $21.43$15.15`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud... -
Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: How to Enjoy a Life of Great Meaning and Altruism by Buddhist Master Shantideva 9781910368749
RRP: $35.00$25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorShantideva was a renowned Indian Buddhist master who composed the Buddhist classic Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (known in Sanskrit as... -
Oroonoko and Other Writings by Aphra Behn
RRP: $15.58$11.29'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface to The Lucky Chance). Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the story... -
The Nightlife by Elise Paschen
RRP: $25.33$16.83In Elise Paschen's prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems ". . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world." In her third poetry book, The Nightlife, Paschen once again taps into dream... -
We Go On Kerry Hardie 9781780377018
RRP: $23.40$15.60This 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 Poetry of Lord Byron by Lord Byron 9781789509694
RRP: $13.63$10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789509694Author Lord ByronFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $25.33$17.73Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood,... -
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
RRP: $17.53$12.58Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary... -
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $19.48$12.95Burning 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... -
Islands: Sirens, Circe and Calypso by Stuart Montgomery 9781901538540
RRP: $21.45$17.55Apologies 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 -
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz 9780781800334
RRP: $42.88$33.27Translated by Kenneth R MacKenzie, Pan Tadeusz is an epic tale of country life among the Polish and Lithuanian gentry in the years 1811 and 1812. It is a poem of the love of country, to which all people belong.Book InformationISBN 9780781800334Author... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
RRP: $13.63$10.00'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovelyand more temperate . . .'Shakespeare's 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: $27.28$19.79This 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... -
City Psalms by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $21.43$14.43City 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... -
Memories by Lang Leav 9781449472399
RRP: $29.23$19.03Best-selling poet Lang Leav presents a gorgeous hardcover gift book featuring the best of Lullabies and Love & Misadventure plus thirty-five new poems for fans to discover, along with original color illustrations by the author. For fans of Lang Leav,... -
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 9781435171374
RRP: $25.33$17.73Quoth 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... -
Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler 9780824808181
RRP: $46.70$44.48The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travelers and guests flow into and past the inn-warriors on the march, lovers fleeing to a new life, pilgrims... -
Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams 9781784106713
RRP: $48.75$33.77William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume I reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: $29.23$19.11Sometimes 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... -
This Time You Save Yourself by Zara Bas 9780645545586
$26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645545586Author Zara BasFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Zara Bas PublishingPublisher Zara Bas PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison
RRP: $25.33$17.73Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness of family life and personal love, to war poems written... -
Poems of the Decade 2011-2020: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2011-2020 by Various Poets
RRP: $19.48$13.07Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh powerful... -
The Poems of Norman MacCaig by Norman MacCaig 9781846971365
RRP: $48.75$33.13This 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... -
The Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
RRP: $25.33$17.73Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life. Few people realise that it was written in 1927 by the... -
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Rilke 9781907587221
RRP: $19.48$13.86In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice - all are encompassed in poems that... -
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
RRP: $21.43$15.15Of 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... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 Andrew Greig 9781852247133
RRP: $29.23$19.11What 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 Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
RRP: $33.13$24.73In 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... -
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413412904
RRP: $21.43$16.34In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she... -
Omeros by Derek Walcott
RRP: $35.08$23.79A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African...