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Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757709Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)... -
Star Lake by Arda Collins 9781737277545
RRP: €22.55€14.23Apologies 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 -
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: €9.51€7.60Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'They summoned their friends, readiedtheir horses, and prepared their... -
Toxicon & Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney
RRP: €13.08€8.81'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 Moonless Night by Henry Normal 9781739623159
RRP: €11.90€9.54A Moonless Night was written between December 2022 and December 2023. "Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance."About the AuthorHenry Normal founded the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the... -
Weeds and Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald
RRP: €20.22€13.78Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying... -
The Riverside Chaucer: Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: €33.31€32.93The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic... -
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
RRP: €9.51€6.89A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it in The Lady magazine in 1998. Her charming... -
Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002 by Maura Dooley
RRP: €10.65€7.64Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam... -
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka 9780802124685
RRP: €19.03€13.61One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This... -
The Selected Poems of Cavafy by C. P. Cavafy
RRP: €11.89€8.46C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native... -
Take Off Your Brave: The World through the Eyes of a Preschool Poet by Nadim .
RRP: €9.51€6.66A very special collection of poems by a four-year-old author, illustrated with wit and whimsy by Yasmeen Ismail.Everybody has love.Even baddies.The poems in this book beautifully capture how a four-year-old sees the world - a world of rainbows, glitter... -
A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood
RRP: €13.08€8.71SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'Jack Underwood has developed an utterly clear lyric that rebukes moral obviousness, drives against false certainty. It's as refreshing as it is instructive . . . Underwood has... -
Us by Zaffar Kunial
RRP: €13.08€8.71From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar Kunial is just such a poet and guide for us today. Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his... -
Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland by Edna Longley
RRP: €14.28€9.52This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic's argument or to illustrate a... -
Christopher Marlowe by Richard Wilson 9780582237070
€57.41Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason... -
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi 9781914221057
€15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221057Author Lola OlufemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press -
A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings by Coleman Barks
RRP: €30.93€21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845971Author Coleman BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 484gDimensions(mm) 194mm *... -
The Snow Globe by Jenny Pagdin 9781913437862
RRP: €14.27€9.87The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new... -
The Air Year by Caroline Bird
RRP: €11.89€8.32Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian... -
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
RRP: €13.08€10.64Aimless Love is Billy Collins' first compilation of poems in twelve years, and a wonderful successor to his first, the bestselling Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Aimless Love presents more than fifty new poems together with generous selections... -
Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations by Miroslav Holub
RRP: €29.75€19.97Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with... -
The Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil
RRP: €10.70€7.68The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his... -
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
RRP: €15.46€10.19Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly... -
Weep Not for Me: In Memory of a Beloved Cat by Constance Jenkins
RRP: €10.70€7.68The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet's death, complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien's etchings... -
Hope Through Poetry: Poems for resilience and self-esteen by Samantha Crilly 9781781611685
RRP: €19.03€14.22From her own experience of mental illness and what she has learned from friends and family, and extensive research, Samantha Crilly shares a collection of more than 50 inspirational poems that give an honest and relatable insight into what it means to... -
Ivor Gurney: Selected Poems by Ivor Gurney 9780192880659
RRP: €11.89€8.32Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) now takes a place among the English poets. His range is wide, including the First World War, in which he served as an infantry private, the passionate celebration of his native Gloucestershire, and fears of the mental imbalance... -
The Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: €11.89€8.46Haunting 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... -
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: €9.51€6.89This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere , Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. ABOUT THE... -
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
RRP: €13.08€8.71Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and... -
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €13.08€9.25Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and... -
Cave, The: Selected And New Poems by C.G. Hanzlicek
RRP: €15.47€13.11This collection spans twenty-five years in the career of this highly regarded poet. It features poems from the books Stars, Calling the Dead,When There Are No Secrets, and Against Dreaming, along with seventeen new poems.C.G. Hanzlicek won the Robert... -
Writ on Cold Slate by Sylvia Pankhurst 9781916312142
RRP: €9.51€6.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916312142Author Sylvia PankhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
The Day Before by Aoife Lyall 9781780376905
RRP: €14.28€9.52Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of... -
The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman 9780142437681
€16.85When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic... -
Mrs Scrooge: A Christmas Tale by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: €9.51€6.89Mrs Scrooge is a delightful Christmas poem from Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Published as a small hardback and filled with bright illustrations by Posy Simmonds, this modern take on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens makes a perfect Christmas gift... -
Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Collected Poems by Robert Desnos 9781906570699
RRP: €23.79€17.18This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the 'prophet' of the Surrealist movement by Andre Breton,... -
A Kingdom of Love by Rachel Mann
RRP: €11.89€8.32A Kingdom of Love is a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world from poet and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann.About the AuthorRachel Mann is an Anglican parish priest and writer. She was Poet-in-Residence... -
Collected Poems: Volume One by Henry Normal 9781838118563
RRP: €20.17€16.40Collected Poems, Vol. 1 includes all of the poems from Henry's first three titles with Flapjack Press - Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Travelling Second Class Through Hope, and Raining Upwards. Staring Directly at the Eclipse was Henry Normal's first... -
Selected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: €11.89€8.46Published 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...