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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... -
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... -
The Flame by Leonard Cohen 9781786893130
RRP: £22.00£14.71THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRYTHESE POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS ARE THE LAST WORD FROM THE LATE, GREAT LEONARD COHENThe Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and writings, selected and... -
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Willis Barnstone 9780811204491
RRP: £11.99£10.15Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the... -
Red Bird by Mary Oliver
RRP: £18.00£14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068939Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 7mm -
The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99£8.56POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely... -
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... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: £14.99£12.55One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Metamorphosis by Ovid
RRP: £9.99£7.11Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously... -
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... -
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £12.99£9.09Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the... -
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... -
Elegies: With parallel Latin text by Albius Tibullus
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me, and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.' Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of... -
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 . ... -
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. ... -
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... -
Cavafy Poems by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: £12.00£8.44In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such... -
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,... -
Beginning and End of the Snow: followed by Where the Arrow Falls by Yves Bonnefoy 9781611484588
RRP: £30.00£26.68Yves Bonnefoy's book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet's thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first, the wintry New England landscape he encountered while... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery 9780701173364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight, inspire and excite. Chosen for their magic and memorability,... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery
RRP: £18.99£13.61Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight, inspire and excite. Chosen for their magic and memorability,... -
Poems Of Jane Austen, A Classic Collection Book by Debbie Brewer 9780244797645
RRP: £7.99£7.11Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most famous English novelists, known for her romantic fiction about English gentry. Less well known, but equally highly regarded, are her remarkable poems, which mark her as an exceptionally talented and respected... -
Little Lost Girl by Melissa Jane Hershaw 9781800747432
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800747432Author Melissa Jane HershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
William McGonagall Collected Poems by Chris Hunt
£13.92William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal... -
Pocket Book of W.B. Yeats by Tony Potter 9780717173259
RRP: £6.99£5.13William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne,... -
RENDANG by Will Harris 9781783785599
RRP: £10.99£7.32WINNER OF THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020 A startlingly radical and surreal poetic journey, RENDANG takes the reader from West Sumatra to Planet Mongo via Gray's Inn Road,... -
The Singing Bowl by Malcolm Guite
RRP: £10.99£8.94Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality. A further group,... -
New Selected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: £14.99£9.80'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIMEGathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. The renowned... -
I Needed a Viking: Poems by Alfa
RRP: £15.99£10.34I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths or of my needs. I chose wrong in the past.... Beloved contemporary poet Alfa is back with a brand-new collection of more than 180 heartfelt poems on the... -
Mistakes in the Background by Laura Dockrill 9780007300594 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.78Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008. Enter the weird and wonderful world of Laura Dockrill ... ... -
Twenty Love Poems: And A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £8.99£6.45A sensual, tender collection to be cherished by lovers new and oldPablo Neruda was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. This, his third collection, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion... -
Backlash Journal: Isolation by Gretchen Heffernan 9781916266681
RRP: £6.65£4.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916266681Author Gretchen HeffernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Backlash PressPublisher Backlash PressWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Selected Poems: William Cowper by William Cowper 9781857547122
RRP: £9.99£6.99In this selection, which includes short poems and extracts from the longer ones, there is ample evidence of the quality of Cowper's faith and of his eye and ear for nature. Indicative of how his life was sustained by writing, these poems reveal his... -
Meadowlands by Louise Gluck
RRP: £9.95£6.97Includes Penelope's Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nostos, the... -
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia 9780856359910 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95£2.14This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.About the AuthorLEONARDO SCIASCIA (1921-1989) was Sicilian by birth and vocation. Sicily is the fierce locality that focuses his work and, in...