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District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
RRP: €15.46€10.82Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the... -
Epigrams: With parallel Latin text by Martial
RRP: €13.08€9.25'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the... -
The Door Margaret Atwood 9781844084951
RRP: €13.08€8.81By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject... -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: €15.46€13.64This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and... -
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon 9780571386017
RRP: €17.84€11.66'To describe Paul Muldoon's influence on contemporary poetry is like trying to assess the influence of The Beatles on post-war music: it's to be seen and heard in the work of almost every British and Irish poet since the 1970's.' Irish PostSince his... -
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry Kayo Chingonyi 9781838855307
RRP: €20.22€13.78A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets... -
Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
RRP: €15.46€10.71For readers who enjoyed Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Gone are the gender stereotypes of obliging lovers,... -
Glass And God by Anne Carson
RRP: €17.85€13.04Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking... -
Leonard Cohen Poems by Leonard Cohen
RRP: €14.28€10.04This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable poems from many collections including... -
And Yet: Poems Kate Baer 9781398706866
RRP: €17.84€11.66From Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length traditional poetry collection, And Yet.I will love and be loved. Save and be saveda thousand times. I will let the want intomy... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by W. R. J. Barron 9780719055171
RRP: €13.08€9.40Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .About the AuthorW. R. J. Barron is Honourary Research Fellow, University of ExeterBook... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy
RRP: €13.08€9.25Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems includes such familiar pieces as "During Wind and Rain,"... -
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
RRP: €15.46€10.19Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and... -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140442397
RRP: €15.46€10.82Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle... -
Night by David Harsent
RRP: €13.08€8.71Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection Legion, is a startling sequence about a garden - but a garden unlike any other. It sets the tone for a book in which the sureties of daylight become ... -
I don't know what language I dream in by Taher Adel 9781913958404
RRP: €8.32€6.00In this earnest debut Taher Adel draws from his own life, heritage, religion and culture to map a remarkable journey. The poems in I don't know what language I dream in operate in the lost spaces between language and identity where the poet wrestles... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
€12.461988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
Slave Song by David Dabydeen 9781845230043
RRP: €9.51€6.77"Slave Song" is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean/Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen as a... -
Poems for Soulful Living by Nadege Laure 9780645899306
RRP: €24.98€16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645899306Author Nadege LaureFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The Kind PressPublisher The Kind Press -
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: €13.08€8.63Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen. This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat,"... -
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
RRP: €15.46€10.19The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of... -
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... -
52: Write a Poem a Week. Start Now. Keep Going Jo Bell 9780993120190
RRP: €17.84€12.82The 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. It became a phenomenon. Hundreds of poets took up the challenge and their poems swept the board of poetry prizes, publications and personal successes.This book brings... -
Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage 9781907587306
RRP: €17.85€13.04The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. The terrain bears the deep scars of industrial exploitation, as well as those less obvious: the signs... -
Loss by David Harsent
RRP: €13.08€8.71The city never sleeps silence would weaken itwhen all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum ofmachinery dark undertone.It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by... -
Where Is My Home?: Selected Short Poems Of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781911475651
RRP: €5.94€4.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911475651Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackImprint Paper + InkPublisher Momentum Books -
Selected Poems: Milton by John Milton
RRP: €10.70€7.68The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection in this new edition spans his entire career, from his earliest works to the magnificent epics of his later life. The devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's... -
Selected Poems by R. S. Thomas
RRP: €15.46€10.82RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an outspoken critic of his... -
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083934
RRP: €11.89€8.18The enchanting festive poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and adorned with sumptuous illustrations by artist Margaux Carpentier, Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water is the perfect festive gift for the poetry lover in... -
Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist 9781555976354
RRP: €17.84€12.05In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new colour. Through the lens of an iconic moment, the Annunciation of an unsettling angel to a young woman, Szybist describes the confusion and even terror of moments in... -
Essentials by David Whyte
RRP: €17.84€11.66'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily... -
Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings by Christine Alexander
RRP: €15.46€10.82'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories,... -
Memorial by Alice Oswald
RRP: €15.46€10.82Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve... -
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
RRP: €13.08€9.25This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads,... -
Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: €14.27€8.44`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of... -
The Rock: Poems by Wallace Stevens 9781640093942
RRP: €9.51€7.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093942Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 7mm -
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
RRP: €11.89€8.32'Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch...a 'Trinidad' being created that did not take my Trinidad away (my... -
On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman
RRP: €3.57€2.96'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
The Complete Poetry by George Herbert
RRP: €15.46€13.03A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul.George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry,... -
Bonjour Mr Inshaw: Poems by Peter Robinson, Paintings by David Inshaw by Peter Robinson 9781909747562
RRP: €19.03€13.59Bonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met during the artist's years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the mid-1970s. Largely produced in an...