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Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante
RRP: £12.99£9.09Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an... -
Our Numbered Days Neil Hilborn 9780989641562
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989641562Author Neil HilbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 106g -
Every Word You Cannot Say by Iain Thomas 9781449495206
RRP: £9.99£6.81*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.* **I know you don't want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you're just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about... -
From the Rocking Chair: A collection of motherhood poetry and prose by Jessica L Driscoll 9780645330502
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645330502Author Jessica L DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint From the Rocking ChairPublisher From the Rocking ChairWeight(grams) 254g -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: £9.99£6.99Winner 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... -
Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: £9.99£7.11This 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 Sidney's poetry and prose - all the major writing, complemented by... -
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
RRP: £16.99£11.58This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved... -
The Complete Odes by Pindar
RRP: £11.99£8.43'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races,... -
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £16.99£11.58W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume... -
Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
RRP: £10.99£7.77This first selection of Geoffrey Hill's poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill's astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, through the verset-sequence Mercian Hymns, to... -
Selected Poems by Don Paterson
RRP: £16.99£11.58Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the... -
Proofs and Theories by Louise Gluck 9781857543902
RRP: £12.95£8.91A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and... -
Be the Light: Words to Inspire Gratitude, Hope and Happiness by Cailin Hargreaves 9781801292825
RRP: £12.99£8.60If 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... -
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... -
Everything Begins Elsewhere Tishani Doshi 9781852249366
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this, her first poetry collection since the award-winning Countries of the Body, Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time. These new poems are... -
The The Past Is a Dangerous Driver: Poems by Neal Mason
RRP: £10.00£9.62The 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... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
RRP: £10.99£7.77Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the... -
The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton 9780571218158 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, The New Faber Book of Love Poems contains a... -
The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton
RRP: £14.99£9.80James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, The New Faber Book of Love Poems contains a... -
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry A P Wavell 9780712653428
RRP: £16.99£12.28First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers.It has remained in print every since,... -
Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips 9781800172296
RRP: £14.99£10.77Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2023. Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 is two books in one: a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips's innovative earlier collections and a complete new book of poems, providing a... -
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova 9781852247652
RRP: £9.95£6.78Kapka 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... -
What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story by P. L. Travers 9781930337503
RRP: £14.60£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930337503Author P. L. TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Codhill PressPublisher Codhill PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Hidden Words: Collected Poems by Spike Milligan
RRP: £12.99£9.09Spike Milligan's Hidden Words: Collected Poems is an emotional, surprising collection of tender(ish) moments.The complete poems of Spike Milligan, Hidden Words consists of three individual volumes now collected together (SMALL DREAMS OF A SCORPION, OPEN... -
Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
RRP: £9.99£6.70Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short... -
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... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
RRP: £12.99£8.56Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic... -
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... -
Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
RRP: £12.99£9.00For 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,... -
Gasoline by Gregory Corso
RRP: £11.99£8.00Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and... -
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... -
101 Sonnets by Don Paterson 9780571278732 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.15Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas... -
101 Sonnets by Don Paterson
RRP: £10.99£7.32Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas... -
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £10.99£7.32The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage... -
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£10.15An 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... -
New Selected Poems: 1984-2004 by Carol Ann Duffy 9781447206422
RRP: £14.99£9.70Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' Rose Tremain, Guardian New Selected Poems contains poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first six acclaimed collections, from Standing Female Nude to Feminine Gospels, and a handful...