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Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder
RRP: €19.03€11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434070Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 249g -
Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to stir the soul by Paul Evans
RRP: €15.46€10.60'Galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world, through the words of an army of poets, ancient and modern' - Bel Mooney An anthology of poems to enter the bloodstream and rewild the spirit. As with all life on Earth, the climate... -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094
RRP: €15.46€8.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73The definitive biography of the war poet - 'Dominic Hibberd has probably done more more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and work. His new Life is a triumph ... it is difficult to believe it will ever be superseded' Mark Bostridge, The... -
Cherry Pie Hollie McNish 9781909136557
RRP: €11.89€8.32Cherry Pie is 2015 collection from Ted Hughes Award and Arts Foundation Award winner Hollie McNish, inspired by her grandparents' advice on newspapers, war, sex and tinned cherries. The poems collected in Cherry Pie hold personal meaning for Hollie and... -
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition by Gertrude Stein 9780872866355
RRP: €9.51€6.55This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein's corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes out on the centennial of its original publication, and... -
Words the Turtle Taught Me by Susan Richardson
RRP: €11.89€8.32Combining poetry with the long essay, 'Thirty Ways of Looking at the Sea', which charts her involvement with the Marine Conservation Society as resident poet as they launched an appeal to tackle the threats facing thirty marine species, Words the Turtle... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: €15.46€10.23The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle of Troy, is one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.Populated by one-eyed man-eating giants,... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: €15.46€10.19Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
Alun Lewis: Collected Poems by Cary Archard 9781854113160
RRP: €11.89€8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113160Author Alun LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €13.08€9.25In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in... -
Tender Spot: Selected Poems Naomi Shihab Nye 9781780372808
RRP: €15.46€10.23Naomi Shihab Nye is a wandering poet. For nearly 40 years she has travelled America and the world to read and teach. Born in Missouri to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she grew up in St Louis, Jerusalem and San Antonio. Drawing on her... -
Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide by Sylvia Plath
RRP: €15.46€10.19Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and... -
Lips too Chilled by Matsuo Basho
RRP: €3.57€2.96'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haikuIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world... -
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia
RRP: €13.08€8.71'A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves' - Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions 'Unlike almost anything I've read - so alive it seems to squirm to the... -
Spenser: The Faerie Queene A. C. Hamilton 9781405832816
€36.70The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now... -
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
RRP: €15.46€10.19BBC Radio 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKFORWARD PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019The long-awaited new collection from Ilya Kaminsky: a remarkable parable in poems which asks us, what is silence?Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in... -
Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: €14.27€10.03This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright.About the AuthorChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare's birth. He wrote seven... -
Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art by Reginald Gibbons
RRP: €33.32€32.59"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The... -
It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life by Judith Viorst 9781982122522
RRP: €20.23€12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122522Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 193mm *... -
Telling Tales Patience Agbabi 9781782111573
RRP: €11.89€7.97SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen the... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780571340163
RRP: €22.60€15.74When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge . . .This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most... -
The Weights We Carry: Poems from a solo bike-packing journey around the Scottish Highlands and the Orkney Islands by C.D. Seventeen
RRP: €16.65€15.21I want to leave this world behind, jump on a bike, go on a journey without others, dive deep into the self, and let the weight of my human identity dissolve into the wind. In the wilderness, I see my emotions floating in silence, and I repaint them... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: €14.27€13.02"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the... -
Jimmy's Blues And Other Poems by James Baldwin
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807084861Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav 9781449489892
RRP: €14.27€9.03Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including Love & Misadventure, Lullabies, and The Universe of Us, and sets sail for a grand new adventure. This completely original collection of poetry and prose... -
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez 9781632431189
RRP: €22.61€19.28Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, this collection of experimental and visual poems dives into the history and culture of the poet's homeland, Guam. This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated... -
Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 Helen Dunmore 9781780374451
RRP: €17.84€12.14Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding storyteller in her poetry and in her prose. Her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare... -
Northborough Sonnets by John Clare 9781857541984
RRP: €11.84€8.29John Clare was a practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last years before his institutionalization in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of interest, since he... -
Introduction to Spanish Poetry: A Dual-language Book by Eugenio Florit 9780486267128
RRP: €8.91€5.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486267128Author Eugenio FloritFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney 9780393330106
RRP: €23.79€20.06Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the... -
Selected Poems by Jorge Borges
RRP: €17.84€13.03Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions... -
Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe 9780701188696 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.28€3.15*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable... -
Loop of Jade Sarah Howe 9780701188696
RRP: €14.28€10.04*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable... -
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage 9780571353392
RRP: €17.84€11.66When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come. Now, Armitage's reputation as one... -
Labyrinth: One classic film, fifty-five sonnets by A. Corrigan
RRP: €15.47€10.83Labyrinth: One classic film, fifty-five sonnets retells the cult classic film in the form of Shakespearean sonnets. It was inspired by A Corrigan's love of the film and the fact that she wished the novelisation had been more poetic, and physically... -
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud...: and other poems you half-remember from school by Ana Sampson
RRP: €9.51€6.66'A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days' - The Times____________________You may remember the famous opening lines, 'Tyger tyger, burning bright'? and 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' but would you be able to... -
Poems (1930) by W. H. Auden
RRP: €15.46€10.19Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for... -
Aspects of Edinburgh: Poems by Stewart Conn Drawings by John Knight by Stewart Conn 9781910895283
RRP: €11.89€8.32'North-east the Firth, a bracelet merging with mist; south-west the Pentlands, sharply defined. Directly opposite, the Castle. A sudden gust makes me lose my footing. Gulls slip past, eyeing us disdainfully.' - from From Arthur's Seat The... -
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
RRP: €20.22€13.78This 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...