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Speechless by Fiacre Ryan
RRP: €19.03€15.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Newcomer of the Year 2022 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785374395Author Fiacre RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion... -
Japanese Haiku Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: €14.28€10.04Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese... -
163 Days by Hannah Hodgson 9781781726471
RRP: €11.89€8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726471Author Hannah HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
After by Jane Hirshfield 9781852247416
RRP: €14.28€9.52Jane 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... -
Shine, Darling by Ella Frears 9781916015920
RRP: €11.90€8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916015920Author Ella FrearsFormat PaperbackImprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 7mm -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: €22.60€17.99When 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... -
Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: €13.08€9.25The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing lifeThis selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval,... -
John Clare by John Clare 9780571234639
RRP: €10.70€7.24John 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... -
Poems for When You Can't Find the Words: A comforting collection from Irish Hospice Foundation by Mary Shine Thompson
RRP: €19.03€13.82From Irish Hospice Foundation, who so compassionately provide end-of-life and bereavement care, this collection provides the gift of words at a time when words can be hard to find and is designed to speak to the fears and concerns that illness and... -
Collected Poems: with translations of Jacques Prevert by A. S. J. Tessimond
RRP: €14.28€9.52A.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: €15.46€10.71Being 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: €14.28€9.52Staying 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... -
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: €23.80€16.49Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from... -
Nature by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: €13.08€9.25One 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: €15.46€10.19WINNER 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... -
Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: How to Enjoy a Life of Great Meaning and Altruism by Buddhist Master Shantideva 9781910368749
RRP: €21.36€15.37Apologies 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... -
The Nightlife by Elise Paschen
RRP: €15.46€10.27In 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: €14.28€9.52This 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... -
Collected Poems and Other Verse by Stephane Mallarme
RRP: €14.27€10.03'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many... -
The Poetry of Lord Byron by Lord Byron 9781789509694
RRP: €8.32€6.10Apologies 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 -
Islands: Sirens, Circe and Calypso by Stuart Montgomery 9781901538540
RRP: €13.09€10.71Apologies 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 -
Selected Poems 1930-1988 by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €15.46€10.19It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to 'what is the word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of writing. It was as... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery 9780701173364 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€2.73Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight, inspire and excite. Chosen for their magic and memorability,... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery
RRP: €22.60€16.20Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight, inspire and excite. Chosen for their magic and memorability,... -
City Psalms by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: €13.08€8.81City 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... -
Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler 9780824808181
RRP: €28.50€27.14The 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: €29.75€20.61William 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: €17.84€11.66Sometimes 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... -
Poems of the Decade 2011-2020: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2011-2020 by Various Poets
RRP: €11.89€7.97Poems 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: €29.75€20.22This 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... -
Ten Poems To Change Your Life by Roger Housden
RRP: €11.89€8.09In this powerful book, Roger Housden harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the reader's inner-most feelings. For everyone who knows there is more to life than they are currently experiencing, it aims to bring an awakening...Through the voices... -
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Rilke 9781907587221
RRP: €11.89€8.46In 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... -
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
RRP: €15.46€10.19For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 Andrew Greig 9781852247133
RRP: €17.84€11.66What 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: €20.22€15.09In 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... -
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them Dai George 9781399408301
RRP: €20.22€14.61An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us. How did the greatest poets in history make the world... -
Life is Sad and Beautiful: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hussain Manawer 9781529390186
RRP: €20.22€13.73** 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 Fat Black Woman's Poems: From the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Grace Nichols 9780860686354
RRP: €13.08€7.70A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021Beautyis a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheekwhile the sun lights up her feetNichols gives us images that stare us... -
Coronaverses by Armando Iannucci
RRP: €13.08€5.66Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life For which we give plenty... -
my name is abilene by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
RRP: €13.08€8.81Sennitt 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...