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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
RRP: $18.88$13.55Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and... -
My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet 9781608467679
RRP: $31.48$20.75Powerful, 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,... -
Take Off Your Brave: Poems Just for You by Nadim Shamma
RRP: $27.28$18.06"An enchanting anthology for very young children with gorgeous illustrations." - GuardianEverybody has love. Even baddies. The poems in this book beautifully capture how a four-year-old sees the world - a world of rainbows, glitter and magical boxes; a... -
The Aeneid Virgil 9781853262630
RRP: $8.38$6.03The 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... -
New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland by Eavan Boland 9781847772411
RRP: $27.20$18.71New 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... -
The Anathemata by David Jones
RRP: $42.00$28.27'The Anathemata can scarcely fail to be counted a great book... It does what Epic is meant to do. It gives a philosophic view, tenable for our times, of the secret places where nature finds reconciliation with the Divine.' The Listener'In Parenthesis is... -
Poetic World of Emily Bronte: Poems from the Author of Wuthering Heights by Laura Inman
RRP: $50.30$45.26Emily Bronte is known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Before during and after writing Wuthering Heights, she wrote poetry. Indeed, she wrote virtually nothing else for us to read -- no other work of fiction or correspondence. Her... -
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden 9781471148644 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.81'A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need' The Times Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked... -
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden 9781471148644
RRP: $20.98$13.46'A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need' The Times Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked... -
Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth: 15th Century Zen Master by Stephen Berg
RRP: $35.70$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591525Author Stephen BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 113g -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393927559
$39.46The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the... -
Bright Wings, Dappled Things: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ & Photographs by Fr Browne SJ by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: $56.70$28.94Two Jesuit priests from different centuries and different lands, each with a particular artistic genius, brought together for the first time. Gerard Manley Hopkins is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era, and his poems continue... -
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Emily Berry
RRP: $18.88$12.77Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language... -
The Complete Odes by Pindar
RRP: $25.18$17.70'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races,... -
Wordsworth Poems William Wordsworth 9781857157185
RRP: $25.20$17.72In the long history of English literature William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the writer who achieved the most dramatic transformations of the poetic scene almost singlehanded. A leading figure among the Romantic generation which included Coleridge and... -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne 9780140422092
RRP: $27.28$19.09No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of... -
Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
RRP: $25.20$17.72Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeWinner of the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full CollectionShortlisted for the 2015 T. S. Eliot PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best First CollectionIn this... -
Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems Kim Addonizio 9781780372709
RRP: $27.28$18.06America's Kim Addonizio has been called 'one of the nation's most provocative and edgy poets'. Her poetry is renowned both for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit. With passion, precision and irreverent honesty, her poems... -
The Nightingales are Drunk by Hafez 9780141980263
RRP: $6.30$5.23'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded'Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden
RRP: $27.28$17.98Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $23.08$15.54Propa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah's second collection from Bloodaxe. First published in 1996, it includes some of his classic poems, such as 'I Have a Scheme', 'The Death of Joy Gardner', 'White Comedy' and 'The Angry Black Poet'. Best known for... -
Poems 1960-2000 by Fleur Adcock
RRP: $31.48$24.49Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational... -
Robert Burns in Your Pocket: A Biography, and Selected Poems and Songs, of Scotland's National Poet by Robert Burns
RRP: $20.98$14.93Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. This compact little book contains an illustrated selection of Burns' most acclaimed and best loved poems and songs. The book also contains a biography, a guide to the key landmarks 'in the land of... -
Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen by Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres 9781900715973
RRP: $20.98$14.68In calling this collection Yoruba from Cuba, a phrase from the poem 'Son Numero 6', the translator, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres, draws attention to Guillen's pioneering embrace, more than sixty years ago, of an African identity in Cuba. His selection shows... -
Oxford Student Texts: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
$24.70One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.Making A Level texts... -
Meadowlands by Louise Gluck
RRP: $20.90$14.64Includes Penelope's Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nostos, the... -
The Eclogues by Virgil 9780140444193
RRP: $20.98$14.93Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their... -
Mother / Line by Ankita Saxena
RRP: $23.08$16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917340Author Ankita SaxenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press -
Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick 9781800173835
RRP: $25.18$17.41The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024. 'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir') The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in... -
River: Poems by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $27.28$17.98First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers.Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and passionatelyattentive chronicle of change over... -
The Remaining Men by Martin Figura 9781788641548
RRP: $20.98$14.68Acutely observed, incisive and precise, The Remaining Men sees Martin Figura combining precision, wit and compassion to produce a collection that is linguistically dexterous and deeply effective. Keeping his gaze on those whose lives are too easily... -
Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 Margaret Atwood 9781844086931
RRP: $20.98$14.28From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Dearly I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.Eating Fire brings together three of Margaret's Atwood's key poetry collections: Poems... -
Flux by Orion Carloto
RRP: $25.18$15.94"YouTube Mastermind" Orion Carloto turns raw emotion into powerful, digestible verse in her debut collection of poetry.Flux is a somber narrative, an ode to change, a collection of poetry and prose written from the many states of grief over a broken... -
Essential Whitman by Walt Whitman 9780060887926
RRP: $14.68$13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060887926Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 136g -
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... -
A Book of Music by Jack Spicer 9781739364908
RRP: $16.80$14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739364908Author Jack SpicerFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press -
The Poetry of John Donne by John Donne 9781788885188 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68$6.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885188Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Star Lake by Arda Collins 9781737277545
RRP: $39.80$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737277545Author Arda CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Song CavePublisher Song CaveWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 140mm * 8mm -
Toxicon & Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney
RRP: $23.08$15.54'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, New YorkerHow does the... -
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: $27.28$17.98A 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,...