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The Book Of Upside Down Thinking: a magical & unexpected collection by poet Brian Patten by Brian Patten
RRP: £9.99£7.12The Book Of Upside Down Thinking, by the famed Liverpool poet Brian Patten, is a magical collection of verse written in Morocco and inspired by traditional folk-tales and stories from the Near and Middle East, many dating back as far as the eleventh... -
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... -
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
£7.93The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever. Billy Collins's tone is... -
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... -
The Lonely Zoroastrian by Mike Harding 9781804251225
£7.27Well-known as a stand up comic and folk musician, Mike Harding is now equally known for his rich and varied poetry.Music, place, landscape, politics, memories and stories have always been Mike Harding’s creative touchstones, never more so than in ‘The... -
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings 9781631490415
RRP: £39.99£35.31With 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... -
Fasti by Ovid
RRP: £11.99£8.64'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their... -
Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
RRP: £9.99£6.70Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short... -
The hourglass: A collection of short poems by Michelle Morrow 9781728685212
RRP: £9.34£7.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728685212Author Michelle MorrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
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... -
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... -
Spenser: The Faerie Queene by 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... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£9.09A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A glorious collection of works old and new' Independent... -
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963 by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £20.00£14.46Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without... -
Edwin Muir Selected Poems by Edwin Muir
RRP: £14.99£9.80Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir's poetry bears... -
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330372220
£5.47That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, The World's Wife. Witty and thought-provoking, this is a... -
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!... -
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney 9780571210916
RRP: £20.00£13.46Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is... -
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... -
Second Best Moments in Chinese History by Frank Kuppner 9781857543100
RRP: £9.95£6.97"The 501 quatrains of Second Best Moments in Chinese History" make it seem at first like a repackaged version of Frank Kuppner's celebrated first collection "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (1984)". But it isn't: 'Please note that this... -
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav
RRP: £9.99£6.41Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair-from the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the... -
Collected Poems: Collected Poems by Henry Reed 9781857549430
RRP: £12.95£8.91Perhaps best known for his much anthologized World War II poem, "Naming of Parts", and a number of radio plays and translations from the Italian, Henry Reed published only one volume of verse during his lifetime, "A Map of Verona" in 1946. Jon... -
The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: £10.99£7.97This 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 Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems,... -
The Storm: And Other Poems by George-Brown Mackay 9781903385661
RRP: £8.99£6.26Apologies 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 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 by Anonymous Anonymous
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... -
The Book Of Desire by Meena Kandasamy 9781913111366
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies 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 -
Keats's Poetry and Prose by John Keats 9780393924916
£18.13For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers... -
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
RRP: £12.99£8.56When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.'Cope has an extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: £8.99£6.84The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of... -
Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories by Avan Jogia 9781449496210
RRP: £11.99£7.59From actor Avan Jogia comes a collection of poetry and art about living as a mixed-race person in a world increasingly fixated on racial identity. In Mixed Feelings, Avan Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race, identity, religion, love,... -
Emblem by Lucy Mercer 9781913513221
RRP: £12.00£8.30Emblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural world in literature. Emblem revitalises this forgotten... -
Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck 9781800171800
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Financial Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. Louise Gluck's thirteenth book of poems is among her most haunting. Here as in The Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from... -
Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins 9780399589805
RRP: £17.00£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589805Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men by Robert Bly 9780060924201
RRP: £19.99£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924201Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
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... -
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Roisin
£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, ... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The... -
The Language of Food: "A recipe can be as beautiful as a poem" by Annabel Abbs
RRP: £14.99£9.36'A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the page and live, but what sets it apart from it's...