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Slug: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Hollie McNish
RRP: $16.76$11.09THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN 'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG 'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe bestselling collection of... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: $24.50$18.07A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the... -
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer 9781009200165
RRP: $32.25$23.25Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also... -
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $14.18$9.69This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous... -
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston 9781035001668
RRP: $16.76$11.33A brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year.Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella... -
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 9781449474256
RRP: $16.76$10.55#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose... -
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $12.89$11.30In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and... -
New And Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068779Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 21mm -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Robin Kirkpatrick
RRP: $16.76$11.73Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first timeThe Divine Comedy... -
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats 9781853264542
RRP: $6.44$4.46With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began... -
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur 9781471165825
RRP: $16.76$10.55The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a... -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Reni Eddo-Lodge
RRP: $18.05$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Silver PressPublisher Silver Press -
The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats 9781853264047
RRP: $6.44$4.46With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780141393544
RRP: $10.31$7.47Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for... -
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
RRP: $14.18$9.69'The godfather of British performance poetry' - Daily TelegraphThe Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades - and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and... -
Devotions by Mary Oliver
RRP: $38.70$25.54A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book ClubChosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog... -
Now We Are Sixty: 20th Anniversary Edition by Christopher Matthew 9780719559792
RRP: $14.18$9.55For those turning sixty, this new edition of Christopher Matthew's tribute to A. A. Milne's classic poems contains fresh material as well as the old favourites.'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily TelegraphWhen Christopher was... -
Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $24.50$16.55This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing... -
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $14.18$9.44Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780140424393
RRP: $12.89$9.17'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and... -
A Terrible Beauty Is Born by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $3.87$3.21'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...'By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.By turns joyful and despairing,... -
If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope
RRP: $16.76$11.04Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil... -
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $25.80$17.88The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140424386
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn BraggIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $24.50$18.07Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design... -
how sunflowers bloom under moonlight: a collection of poems on love and heartbreak by isabella dorta by Isabella Dorta 9781399917148
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399917148Author Isabella DortaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Isabella DortaPublisher Isabella DortaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems: A Collection of F**ked Up Fairy Tales by Megan Fox 9781035413393
RRP: $21.92$14.89A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glimpse to the person behind the glamour and drama . . . you get a real sense of the beating soul of Megan Fox' Glamour'A wry and moody meditation on sadness and heartbreak' Vogue'[Fox] opens up in poetic detail and... -
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Lord Alfred Tennyson 9781853264146
RRP: $6.44$4.46Selected by Rosemary Gray. Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas... -
Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling 9781853264054
RRP: $6.44$4.98Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
RRP: $12.89$9.17The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates Homer by many centuries... -
Love: Poems to bolster every heart that ever beat by Donna Ashworth
RRP: $12.89$9.17*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWA book for the passionate and warm-hearted among us, Love explores every type of affection and helps us to nurture our most precious... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140447897
RRP: $12.89$9.69'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of... -
Choose Love by Nicola Davies 9781802583779
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for CLiPPA 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781802583779Author Nicola DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $20.63$14.13'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of... -
Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Jenny Joseph
RRP: $9.02$6.62'Utterly charming and uplifting' The Good Book Guide Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun. In the poem's respectable middle-aged... -
The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth 9781853264016
RRP: $6.44$4.98With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of... -
W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $16.76$11.04W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more... -
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
RRP: $19.34$12.64Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
RRP: $12.89$8.77The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love,... -
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
RRP: $21.92$14.89From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and...