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The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: $21.43$15.15Lucretius' 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... -
Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage 9781907587306
RRP: $29.25$21.37The 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... -
Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text by William Langland
RRP: $21.43$15.15This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, for its deeply imaginative religious... -
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms... -
Loss by David Harsent
RRP: $21.43$14.27The 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: $9.73$7.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911475651Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackImprint Paper + InkPublisher Momentum Books -
Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Buddhist Master Hongzhi Taigen Dan Leighton 9780804832403
RRP: $29.23$19.11Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi... -
Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist 9781555976354
RRP: $29.23$19.75In 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... -
Memorial by Alice Oswald
RRP: $25.33$17.73Matthew 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: $21.43$15.15This 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,... -
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney 9780571207985
RRP: $25.33$16.69Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book... -
The Rock: Poems by Wallace Stevens 9781640093942
RRP: $15.58$12.25Apologies 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 -
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757341Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
RRP: $19.48$13.63'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: $5.85$4.86'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... -
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781857157307
RRP: $23.40$16.46Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. A major figure in the modernist movement,... -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
RRP: $15.58$11.29The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled... -
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton
RRP: $19.48$13.86James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and... -
The Complete Poetry by George Herbert
RRP: $25.33$21.35A 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,... -
Works by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $33.13$24.73This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance.Reviews` ... the general introduction and... -
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $19.48$13.86Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politics and reggae... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: $19.48$13.86Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
Fifty Poems by T. E. Fantl 9781788309622
RRP: $19.48$13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788309622Author T. E. FantlFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Wild Words: How language engages with nature: A collection of international words that describe a natural phenomenon by Kate Hodges
RRP: $19.48$12.95The book showcases 75 beautiful words evocative of the wild, from all around the world, that describe natural happenings in nature. It includes words that describe weather, or a feeling you have when in nature as well as sensory words that explain the... -
Fragrance After Rain by Jaiya John 9780998780269
RRP: $44.85$37.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998780269Author Jaiya JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Soul Water RisingPublisher Soul Water RisingWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz 9780374604301
RRP: $97.50$57.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374604301Author Delmore SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780486272665 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.83$3.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272665Author Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781789295467
RRP: $25.33$16.22Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from... -
Moder Dy: Polygon New Poets by Roseanne Watt
RRP: $21.43$14.27Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell... -
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083934
RRP: $19.48$13.40The 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... -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow Alan Plater 9781852244897
RRP: $19.40$13.22Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this gritty musical is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre... -
Flux by Orion Carloto
RRP: $23.38$14.80"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... -
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le 9781805300762
RRP: $25.33$16.69An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this... -
The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $25.33$16.48From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of grief and words to soothe the soul. 'A treasure. The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and... -
Advent Street by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $19.48$13.86In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. In each one is a gift. You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina, poised to begin, or catch your lips moving in time... -
Moontide Niall Campbell 9781780371184
RRP: $19.40$13.22Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of its winters. Quietly reflective and deftly musical,... -
Poems and Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: $25.33$17.73It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal... -
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition by Cesar Vallejo
RRP: $25.33$24.04Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles... -
The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot 9780199538867
RRP: $25.33$17.73The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had... -
The Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho 9781573922517
RRP: $25.33$18.74Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following...