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In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.56What 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,... -
The Complete English Poems John Milton 9781857150971
RRP: £14.99£11.35This 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: £10.99£7.64In 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... -
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace 9780140444223
RRP: £12.99£9.09Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty... -
Selected Poetry and Prose by Charlotte Mew
RRP: £16.99£11.58The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This Selected Poetry and Prose is edited... -
The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot 9780199538867
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Eat Or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick
RRP: £10.99£7.64Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022. Awarded the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Butler Literary Prize 2022. Shortlisted... -
Selected Poems by Lavinia Greenlaw 9780571379194
RRP: £14.99£9.80This Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to a distinguished body of work that has established Lavinia Greenlaw as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation. From her arresting debut, Night Photograph (1993), through five... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: £12.99£8.60A stunning new translation of the classic tale of the fall of Troy from one of the world's finest translators. If you enjoyed THE SONG OF ACHILLES, discover the original and the best...Man seduces another's wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his... -
Poems to Learn by Heart by Ana Sampson
RRP: £8.99£6.22'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 Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £14.99£10.98An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Italian with an introduction by Mark Musa.This vigorous... -
Poems And Prose by John Donne 9781857157222
RRP: £12.00£8.44The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and a series of religious poems including the Holy Sonnets. All these... -
The Dark Film by Paul Farley 9780330461238
RRP: £10.99£10.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: £15.00£10.96What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village street, often far away in their own fields. But the... -
On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
RRP: £9.99£7.11`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines... -
I Gave Myself The World by Catarine Hancock
RRP: £12.99£9.76"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,... -
Conamara Blues by John O'Donohue
RRP: £8.99£6.45Conamara in the West of Ireland has a strange and beautiful landscape - a landscape of intense contrasts uniquely dependent on light and shade. In daylight, a subtle radiance of gentle colours envelops the place. Yet on the threshold of darkness, the... -
Memories by Lang Leav 9781449472399
RRP: £14.99£9.76Best-selling poet Lang Leav presents a gorgeous hardcover gift book featuring the best of Lullabies and Love & Misadventure plus thirty-five new poems for fans to discover, along with original color illustrations by the author. For fans of Lang Leav,... -
Fiere by Jackie Kay
RRP: £9.99£7.27Jackie Kay's new collection is a lyric counterpart to her memoir, Red Dust Road, the extraordinary story of the search for her Nigerian and Highland birth-parents; but it is also a moving book in its own right, and a deep enquiry into all forms of human... -
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes by Denise Levertov
RRP: £10.99£9.92The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.About the AuthorDenise Levertov... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.77The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
The Inferno by Dante 9780385496988
RRP: £13.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496988Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
West Wind by Mary Oliver 9780395850855
£10.37The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature... -
Ode to Flowers: A celebratory collection of the poetry of flowers by Samuel Carr
RRP: £9.99£7.00A rich collection of poetry that celebrates the beauty and symbolism of flowers. Beautifully illustrated with nostalgic illustrations of a range of beautiful blooms, this book includes a diverse range of poems. From verses celebrating the beginning of... -
Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson 9781845234331
RRP: £9.99£6.99Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London; memories of an older Trinidad and visits that tell him both how he and... -
Poems of Emily Bronte, A Classic Collection Book by Debbie Brewer 9780244200008
RRP: £10.99£9.59Emily Bronte, (1818 - 1848), was an English novelist and poet. She was born in Yorkshire and was the third of four surviving siblings, Charlotte, Branwell, and Anne. She is known best for her world famous, and only novel, Wuthering Heights, a classic of... -
Nox by Anne Carson 9780811218702
RRP: £39.99£34.58Nox 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 Complete Poems of John Donne Robin Robbins 9781408231241
RRP: £37.99£37.68The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780140268867
RRP: £16.99£14.20Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin... -
The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 by Helen Dame Gardner 9780198121367
RRP: £38.49£28.35The New Oxford Book of English Verse is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and critic, Dame Helen Gardner, the book makes available in one volume the full range and variety of English... -
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics.Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human... -
Darling: New and Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775
RRP: £12.00£8.00Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. "Darling" brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite... -
Keats's Poetry and Prose by John Keats 9780393924916
£18.13For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers... -
The Best of Betjeman John Betjeman 9780719568329
RRP: £10.99£7.40John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling... -
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
RRP: £16.99£9.58LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'[Promises of Gold] has put Olivarez at the forefront of not only first-generation poetics, but of all poetry. This one here is for us -- the ones who hide garden shears in their poems' Javier ZamoraLove is at... -
Gaudete by Ted Hughes
RRP: £14.99£9.80'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . ... -
Footprints on the Path by Eileen Caddy 9780905249803
RRP: £12.99£8.18FOOTPRINTS ON THE PATH contains gentle, but direct, messages of the kind which are most likely to turn the reader inside towards his or her own divine source. Eileen saw it as containing a complete teaching in how to live a spiritual life, which the ... -
The Annotated Collected Poems Edward Thomas 9781852247461
RRP: £15.00£10.20Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914, at the age of 36. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. Often viewed as a 'war poet', he wrote nothing... -
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
Readings from the Book of Exile by Padraig O'Tuama
RRP: £10.99£8.94One of the most intriguing and engaging voices in contemporary Christianity is that of the Irish poet, Padraig O Tuama and this is his first, long-awaited poetry collection. Hailing from the Ikon community in Belfast and working closely with its founder,...