Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Hope Through Poetry: Poems for resilience and self-esteen by Samantha Crilly 9781781611685
RRP: £15.99£12.23From 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... -
John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
RRP: £14.99£9.80This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and... -
Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
RRP: £9.99£6.70Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short... -
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
RRP: £12.99£8.60An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limon.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a... -
Robert Burns, the Complete Poetical Works by Robert Burns 9780907526636
RRP: £11.95£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907526636Author Robert BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Alloway Publishing LtdPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 220mm * 141mm * 33mm -
Cave, The: Selected And New Poems by C.G. Hanzlicek
£13.42This 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: £7.99£7.11Apologies 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 -
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: £12.99£9.09The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between... -
Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry
RRP: £12.99£8.56Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between... -
Love Her Wild: Poetry Atticus Poetry 9781472250933
RRP: £16.99£11.54For fans of Milk & Honey and Chasers of the Light, the first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation Atticus. Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of... -
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9789387779709
RRP: £24.99£16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387779709Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books -
The Magic Border by Arlo Parks 9780008646707
RRP: £16.99£11.27'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch 'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I'm not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you,... -
A Kingdom of Love by Rachel Mann
RRP: £9.99£6.99A 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 Verse Paul Valéry 9780198820321
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he... -
Reading Homer: Iliad Books 16 and 18 by Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course 9780521170888
RRP: £19.99£17.61Reading Homer presents two highlights of the Iliad: Book 16, where Patroclus fights and dies, and Book 18, where Achilles grieves for him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle. It enables students who have been learning Greek for perhaps... -
Selected Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780199555826
RRP: £6.99£5.13Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge... -
New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571338559
RRP: £14.99£9.80This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems.Certain... -
The Georgics by Virgil
RRP: £12.99£9.09A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, The Georgics is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry.About the AuthorVirgil (70-19BC) studied rhetoric and philosophy in Rome where... -
The Lais of Marie De France: With Two Further Lais in the Original Old French by Marie France
RRP: £8.99£6.45Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the... -
Collected Poems: Volume One by Henry Normal 9781838118563
RRP: £16.95£13.06Collected 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... -
Leaving Fingerprints Imtiaz Dharker 9781852248499
RRP: £12.99£8.60Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror. She is also... -
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry A P Wavell 9780712653428
RRP: £16.99£12.28First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers.It has remained in print every since,... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: £10.99£7.77Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is... -
Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage 9781904634584
RRP: £8.95£8.06The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was... -
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me by Maya Angelou 9781400066018
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400066018Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 172mm *... -
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo 9781945588471
RRP: £16.95£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945588471Author John MurilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 145mm *... -
No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters by Anne-Marie Fyfe 9781781725177
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables That Illumine, Delight, and Inform by Rumi 9781571747464
RRP: £15.99£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747464Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780374111199
RRP: £27.00£20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Costa Book Awards (Poetry) 1999 and Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year) 1999 and ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780374111199Author Seamus... -
Selected Poems 1908-1969 by Ezra Pound
RRP: £16.99£11.58This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T. S. Eliot which was published in 1928. A representative... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9780199535644
RRP: £11.99£8.43Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a... -
On Poetry Glyn Maxwell (Author) 9781350248359
RRP: £12.99£11.09'The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember. A handbook written from the heart by one of the true modern masters of the craft.' Simon Armitage A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from... -
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
RRP: £12.99£8.56Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones 9780571259809
RRP: £17.99£12.20In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and still regard it, as a work of genius... Here is a book... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9781857150940
RRP: £16.99£12.68Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English... -
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £10.99£7.93The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the award-winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamie's lyric enquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten... -
God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town by Catherine Cohen
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies 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 -
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
RRP: £12.99£8.56When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.'Cope has an extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what... -
The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Down at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Belief was in the air. Then the soldiers ceased fire and the magic of Christmas took hold . . .Carol Ann... -
Peace, Love & Potatoes by John Hegley
RRP: £9.99£7.40This volume by the inimitable poet, comedian and performer John Hegley brings together poetry, prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart. Contemplating subjects from painting, France and family to Daleks and of course potatoes, these pieces...