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A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry 9781582430065
RRP: $33.58$23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430065Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Introduction to Italian Poetry: A Dual-Language Book by Luciano Rebay 9780486267159
RRP: $23.08$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486267159Author Luciano RebayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Indian Love Poems by Meena Alexander 9781841597577
RRP: $25.20$17.72According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion "there is no textbook at all, and no order." Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half... -
I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer
RRP: $20.98$14.28The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of found poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors - a ritual that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires... -
I Speak for the Devil by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: $25.20$16.80Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror,... -
Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: $25.20$17.72In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'SUNDAY... -
Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski 9780060577049
RRP: $41.98$30.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060577049Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Selected Poems: with parallel French text by Guillaume Apollinaire
RRP: $23.08$16.32'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived,... -
The Hollow of the Hand by P. J. Harvey
RRP: $35.68$25.79FINALIST IN THE PHOTO BOOK CATEGORY OF THE PICTURES OF THE YEAR AWARD Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected... -
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $27.28$18.06French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures - published in full in English for the first time in... -
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris
RRP: $27.28$19.09`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... -
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Emily Dickinson 9781435162563
RRP: $27.28$18.54Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works... -
The Song of Roland by Glyn S. Burgess
RRP: $20.98$14.93On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant... -
Flood by Clare Shaw
RRP: $20.90$14.24The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Flood offers an... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery
$7.94 - $28.58Poem 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,... -
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard 9781908058812
RRP: $20.98$14.68Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by... -
Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: $31.48$20.58Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS). This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent... -
Absence by Ali Lewis 9781739440503
RRP: $23.10$15.67Absence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat-death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the... -
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble: Magical Poems Chosen by Paul Cookson by Paul Cookson
RRP: $27.28$20.58Can you hear the distant dragon's rumble of thunder? And smell the sweet swampy aroma of the ogre? Can you taste the tangy tarantula tarts? And see the girl who's really a wizard? From magic carpets and wands to unicorns, potions, creams and lotions,... -
Emotions by Craig Harman 9781804396698
RRP: $8.38$6.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804396698Author Craig HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
$27.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508609Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. 'Bunny' Lang 9781800173378
RRP: $35.68$23.00A Poetry Book Society Spring Special Commendation 2024. In the archives of the Houghton Library at Harvard blazes the incandescent work of V.R. 'Bunny' Lang (1924-56), the American poet and playwright whose name has been all but erased from literary... -
Sometimes I Feel...: A Menagerie of Feelings Big and Small by Sarah Maycock
RRP: $16.78$11.38Sometimes I feel as big as a bear . . . But there will always be someone bigger than me.There are lots of ways that we can feel, so many emotions big and small. Sarah Maycock explores our feelings through a collection of animal similes and poetic prose,... -
Gifts the Mole Gave Me by Wendy Pratt 9781908853882
RRP: $20.98$14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853882Author Wendy PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
Christmas Poems by Wendy Cope
RRP: $16.78$11.47For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and previously... -
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: $14.68$10.50The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones.Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which... -
Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck 9781800172951
RRP: $27.28$18.77"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Gluck's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for... -
Swims by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
RRP: $20.98$14.93Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel PrizePlunge into mountain lakes and drift along meandering rivers in Swims, the debut poetry collection by Elizabeth-Jane BurnettA long poem taking many forms, Swims begins and ends in Devon, moving across the waterways of... -
A warm and snouting thing by Ramona Herdman 9781912915293
RRP: $13.65$9.95'A warm and snouting thing' dances delicately between the sizzle of nerves brought on by proximity to sex and the ambiguous stability of commitment and family. These poems emphasise the physicality, not only of desire, but of the human and natural worlds... -
The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs by Cyril Edwards
$11.38 - $17.70'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit,... -
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis by Philip Larkin
RRP: $27.28$17.98For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase,... -
The Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: $27.28$18.06Osip Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, with a prophetic understanding of its suffering, which he transformed into luminous poetry. Childish and wise, joyous and angry, at once complex and simple, he was sustained for 20... -
High Windows by Philip Larkin 9780571260140
RRP: $27.28$17.98Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his... -
'We Needed Coffee but...' by Matthew Welton 9781847770028
RRP: $20.90$14.64'We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew flatter and the roads became quiet and dusk began to colour the sky, you could guess from the way we returned the radio and... -
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Fatimah Asghar's debut collection brought me to tears many times over. It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have changed the face of the world. Its exploration of queerness, grief, Muslim identity, partition and being a... -
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master by Hafiz 9780140195811
RRP: $29.30$27.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140195811Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781789295467
RRP: $27.28$17.47Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from... -
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $23.08$16.19Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely... -
The Oval Window: A new annotated edition by J. H. Prynne 9781780371269
RRP: $25.20$18.92This volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material... -
Selected Poems by Gillian Clarke
RRP: $35.68$25.58Selected Poems gathers together the best of Gillian Clarke's poetry in a single volume. National Poet of Wales, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award, Clarke is one of the best-known names in UK poetry...