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Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
RRP: $27.28$17.98Taking 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... -
The Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho 9781573922517
RRP: $27.28$19.66Called 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... -
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $20.98$14.07Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.Field Work,... -
Fragrance After Rain by Jaiya John 9780998780269
RRP: $48.30$42.15Apologies 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 Hurting Kind by Ada Limon 9781639550494
RRP: $37.78$25.83An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon."I have always been too sensitive, a... -
Nox by Anne Carson 9780811218702
RRP: $83.98$72.62Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus "for his... -
The Gloria Anzaldua Reader by Gloria Anzaldua
RRP: $54.58$46.28Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping... -
Selected Poems: 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $27.28$19.09Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his... -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow by Alan Plater
RRP: $20.90$14.24Close 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... -
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $27.28$19.09Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood,... -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: $20.98$14.68Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2018 Pigott... -
The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $27.28$19.09From 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... -
Moontide by Niall Campbell
RRP: $20.90$14.24Niall 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,... -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by R. H. Sin
RRP: $27.28$17.18Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin's first book is a bestseller and continues to delight his one million followers. R.H. Sin's second... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison
RRP: $27.28$19.09Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness of family life and personal love, to war poems written... -
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never... -
The The Past Is a Dangerous Driver: Poems by Neal Mason
RRP: $21.00$19.68The poems in The Past Is a Dangerous Driver is inspired by Neal Mason's fascination with the past, not only in the way it exists as general history but also as it is formed by one's own personal recollection. Through his poems, Neil links the past to... -
From From by Monica Youn 9781800173644
RRP: $31.48$22.62A Publishers Weekly and New York Times Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2023. Monica Youn's first UK collection is her fourth and most ambitious book. It ends with prose, or at least with paragraphs, the long... -
Collected Poems of Idris Davies, The by Idris Davies
RRP: $20.98$20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843233077Author Idris DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight/Pearl/Cleanness/Patience by J. J. Anderson
RRP: $20.98$13.21SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literatureNow a major film THE GREEN KNIGHT starring Dev PatelFrom the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates from the second half of the 14th... -
Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $35.68$24.32Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry', in an oeuvre of astonishing profusion and exuberance.The... -
George Herbert by George Herbert
RRP: $8.38$6.26In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova 9781852247652
RRP: $20.90$14.87Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost... -
Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare
RRP: $31.48$20.58Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's... -
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra 9780571352340
RRP: $21.00$14.09Taking 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... -
The Complete English Poems by John Milton
RRP: $31.48$23.84This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical... -
Growlery by Katherine Horrex 9781784109899
RRP: $23.08$16.04In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VII, Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.Book InformationISBN 9781784109899Author Katherine HorrexFormat... -
Be the Light: Words to Inspire Gratitude, Hope and Happiness by Cailin Hargreaves 9781801292825
RRP: $27.28$18.06If you do not release yourself from what has gone how will you hold onto what is coming?Let go of the things that let you go.An inspirational contemporary collection of words, prose and illustrations providing short, thought-provoking daily prompts for... -
Fires by Raymond Carver
RRP: $23.08$7.37Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the... -
I Gave Myself The World by Catarine Hancock
RRP: $27.28$21.02"what is it that you want?"i want all this world can give me."then you're going to have to give it to yourself."i gave myself the world showcases the beauty of introspection and exploring personal conflict. Through a conversation with an inner voice,... -
Poems to Learn by Heart by Ana Sampson
RRP: $18.88$12.66'Paths of glory', 'Theirs not to reason why', 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep', 'A handful of dust', 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'.___________'Glorious' - Tribune'Superb' - The Good Book Guide ___________These and many others are... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: $23.08$16.32Lucretius' 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... -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: $31.48$23.84This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with a... -
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
RRP: $18.88$13.55Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and... -
In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $27.28$17.98What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar,... -
River: Poems by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $23.08$15.37First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers.Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and passionatelyattentive chronicle of change over... -
Anecdotal Evidence by Wendy Cope
RRP: $27.28$17.98In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experience of... -
Heterogeneous: 2016 by Anthony Anaxagorou
RRP: $21.00$14.70Heterogeneous is the defnitive anthology of Anthony Anaxagorou s poetry - an extensive and revised selection taken from several previous volumes. The winner of the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award, Anaxagorou offers the reader an insight into his poetry... -
Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead by Sam M. Intrator 9780787988692
RRP: $39.90$26.78Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work. The... -
The Book of Healing by Najwa Zebian
RRP: $33.58$25.22From bestselling author, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a collectible treasury of her most beloved poetry and prose. Selected by the author and organized by topic, the pieces in this collection address themes such as letting go, understanding...