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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... -
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... -
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... -
Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi
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... -
Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers by Melody Godfred
RRP: £12.99£8.18Readers have called her work "life changing," "pandemic medicine," and "part of my daily ritual." Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry... -
Fires by Raymond Carver
RRP: £10.99£3.51Fires 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... -
Rooms of the Mind: Poems by Makenzie Campbell 9781771682497
RRP: £12.99£8.18From the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen comes Rooms of the Mind - a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak,... -
George Herbert by George Herbert
RRP: £3.99£2.98In 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... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: £10.99£7.77Lucretius' 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... -
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... -
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
RRP: £8.99£6.45Revered 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... -
Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams 9780811202343
RRP: £12.99£10.97This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of... -
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 by 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... -
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,... -
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the... -
Train Your Dog Like a Pro by Jean Donaldson 9780470616161
£18.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470616161Author Jean DonaldsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Red Bird by Mary Oliver
RRP: £18.00£10.34Apologies 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 -
Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead by Sam M. Intrator 9780787988692
RRP: £19.00£12.75Leading 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... -
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... -
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... -
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £10.99£7.25Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences,... -
Rebel Without Applause by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £9.99£6.70Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been published in press as diverse as the the Times Literary... -
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... -
The Dark Film by Paul Farley 9780330461238
RRP: £10.99£10.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: £14.99£11.35This 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... -
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083934
RRP: £9.99£6.87The 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... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: £9.99£7.11Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an... -
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... -
West Wind by Mary Oliver 9780395850855
£11.03The 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... -
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... -
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope
RRP: £12.99£9.98The 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 by Jackie Kay
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... -
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... -
More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty
RRP: £11.99£8.29Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. A The Irish Times Book of the Year. More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction... -
The Annotated Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
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...