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E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings 9781631490415
RRP: £39.99£34.67With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E.E. Cummings in his lifetime.About the AuthorE... -
The Monastery of the Heart: Benedictine Spirituality for Contemporary Seekers by Joan Chittister 9781629190204
RRP: £14.95£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629190204Author Joan ChittisterFormat HardbackImprint BlueBridgePublisher BlueBridgeWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 130mm * 15mm -
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... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a... -
Juvenal and Persius by Juvenal
RRP: £24.95£23.39Mordant verse satire.The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured in this Loeb Classical Library edition. Persius (AD 34-62) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by... -
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... -
Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley 9780393977523
£19.44Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsiderations. All headnotes are new or updated, and many footnotes have been added, replaced, or revised. "Criticism" reflects... -
Spenser: The Faerie Queene A. C. Hamilton 9781405832816
£30.84The 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... -
Collected Poems and Other Verse by Stephane Mallarme
RRP: £11.99£8.43'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many... -
Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted... -
Panic Response by John McCullough 9781913850050
RRP: £9.99£6.99*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* From the mercurial mind of award-winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope... -
The Historians by Eavan Boland
RRP: £10.99£7.64Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020. An Irish Times Book of the Year 2020. A forceful and moving final volume from... -
Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 9780753810668
RRP: £9.99£6.80The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods and moments: from the first... -
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott 9780571209125
RRP: £12.99£8.56A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the... -
The Brontes and Their Poetry by Anne Crow 9780956232823
RRP: £7.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956232823Author Anne CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint CrowscapesPublisher CrowscapesWeight(grams) 224g -
Howdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon 9780571365784
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThe hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting... -
Stop Trying to be Fantastic by Molly Naylor 9781911570844
RRP: £9.99£7.11Molly Naylor is a poet, scriptwriter, performer and director. She is the co-writer of Sky One comedy After Hours. Theatre work includes Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You (writer/performer), My Robot Heart (writer/performer) and LIGHTS! PLANETS!... -
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
RRP: £22.00£16.58The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound... -
What Day Is It?: Who Gives a F*ck by Jan Brierton
RRP: £7.99£5.79POEMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS INSPIRED BY LOCKDOWN Before the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dubliner Jan was working as a freelance fashion stylist and creative director. Now, she is an experienced homeschool teacher, playground chaperone, cook, cleaner, fed-up... -
Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams
RRP: £12.99£8.94A Telegraph Best New Poetry Books for Christmas 2021. Carcanet publishes several Catulluses: C.H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating... -
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity by Jerome McGann
RRP: £19.99£17.13A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken... -
Enter, Fleeing by Mark Ford
RRP: £10.99£7.32Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford.Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford.About the AuthorMark Ford was born in 1962... -
The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: £9.99£7.11'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric... -
Discombobulated and Other Poems by Michelle L. L. Feltham 9781398495951
RRP: £6.99£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495951Author Michelle L. L. FelthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £35.00£23.83Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf (1999) was hailed as a masterpiece, alerting readers to his extraordinary ability to tune into other poets and languages and render their work fresh and alive in his own voice. In fact, as this volume attests, from... -
Beowulf: Dual Language and New Verse Translation: New Verse Translation, Fully Annotated (Dual-Language Edition) J.G. Nichols 9781847497949
RRP: £7.99£5.79Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has been devouring warriors in the hall of the Danish King in... -
Selected Poems: 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £12.99£9.09Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his... -
Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell 9781739220761
RRP: £10.99£7.40In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell - the bard of the underloved and overlooked - turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest... -
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris
RRP: £12.99£9.09`If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance... to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained'. Guillaume de Lorris's own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly... -
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido 9780307962034
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780307962034Author Lucie Brock-BroidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred... -
The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Dante Alighieri 9781435162068
RRP: £35.00£23.43A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, sin, damnation... -
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £16.99£11.58THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRYThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring... -
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Roisin
RRP: £11.99£8.27A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, ... -
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761232Author Edna St. Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: £14.99£9.88Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest... -
The Storm: And Other Poems by George-Brown Mackay 9781903385661
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385661Author George Mackay BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing by R. H. Sin
RRP: £12.99£8.18From the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of women's strength. There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish... -
The Orators by W. H. Auden
RRP: £14.99£9.80When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poems fifteen years ago'. A long poem written in both prose and verse, it was a powerful addition to the canon... -
Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief by Tom Zuba
RRP: £12.00£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600475658Author Tom ZubaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bish PressPublisher Bish PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 15mm -
The Book Of Desire by Meena Kandasamy 9781913111366
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913111366Author Meena KandasamyFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Galley Beggar PressPublisher Galley Beggar Press