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The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. 'Bunny' Lang 9781800173378
RRP: $33.13$21.35A 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... -
If They Come For Us Fatimah Asghar 9781472154620
RRP: $21.43$14.43'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... -
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: $15.58$11.29This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere , Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. ABOUT THE... -
The Routledge Companion to William Morris by Florence S. Boos 9780367560881
RRP: $85.78$74.96William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and... -
Footprints on the Path by Eileen Caddy 9780905249803
RRP: $25.33$15.95FOOTPRINTS ON THE PATH contains gentle, but direct, messages of the kind which are most likely to turn the reader inside towards his or her own divine source. Eileen saw it as containing a complete teaching in how to live a spiritual life, which the ... -
Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Charles Swinburne
RRP: $25.33$17.73This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND... -
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis by Philip Larkin
RRP: $25.33$16.69For 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 Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780241573716
RRP: $19.48$13.86Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
WITCH by Rebecca Tamas
RRP: $19.48$13.63"WITCH is sexy, frightening and cerebral. Rebecca Tamas is the real deal." KATHERINE ANGEL; WITCH is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry. Rebecca Tamas reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the... -
The Oval Window: A new annotated edition by J. H. Prynne 9781780371269
RRP: $23.40$15.60This 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... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780141187013
RRP: $17.53$12.58A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.First published in the 1920's,... -
Skin by David Harsent 9780571382569
RRP: $25.33$16.69Skin is David Harsent's visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull.A visionary new collection from one of our most... -
'We Needed Coffee but...' by Matthew Welton 9781847770028
RRP: $19.40$13.59'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... -
Collected Love Poems by Brian Patten 9780007246496
RRP: $21.43$16.17Of all the poets writing today, Brian Patten is perhaps the most accessible and popular. Now his love poems, old and new, are collected together in his single volume. Widely acknowledged as one of Europe's foremost writers, Brian Patten's love poems have... -
Mylo the Dino by Alex Miarli 9781839527708
RRP: $19.48$18.74Mylo the Dino is an epic, fun and heartwarming rhyming children's book. The story follows a young, adventurous dinosaur who strays from his herd and must find his way home. But in doing so, Mylo makes a few unexpected friends along the way... and learns... -
Door into the Dark by Seamus Heaney 9780571101269
RRP: $25.33$16.69Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his... -
In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch Poets Anna Enquist 9781854113139
RRP: $19.40$13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113139Author Anna EnquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 253g -
After You Were, I Am by Camille Ralphs 9780571384853
RRP: $25.33$15.95This extraordinary debut heralds the arrival of a major new talent.In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues... -
Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions by Robert Hethmon
RRP: $38.98$31.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360227Author Lee StrasbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by W. R. J. Barron 9780719055171
RRP: $21.43$15.41Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .About the AuthorW. R. J. Barron is Honourary Research Fellow, University of ExeterBook... -
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $21.43$15.15Carol 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... -
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $19.48$13.86It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow... -
Letters Against the Firmament by Sean Bonney
RRP: $19.48$13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910392157Author Sean BonneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Enitharmon PressPublisher Enitharmon Press -
Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden 9781784106874
RRP: $33.13$23.56To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and served... -
Hardy Poems Thomas Hardy 9781857157178
RRP: $19.48$13.86Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the short... -
v. Tony Harrison 9780906427972
RRP: $19.40$13.22Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who... -
Savage Tales by Tara Bergin 9781800172319
RRP: $31.18$22.27Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023. Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023. Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of... -
Canti: The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: $21.43$16.93First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional reading material, Leopardi's poetical masterpiece is an unsurpassed anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth. Trapped between an admiration for the... -
Selected Poems by Gillian Clarke
RRP: $33.13$24.32Selected 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... -
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $29.23$19.27The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands.Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse... -
Collected Poems 1943-2004: N/A by Richard Wilbur 9781904130178
RRP: $29.23$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130178Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser PressWeight(grams) 875g -
Nil Nil by Don Paterson
RRP: $17.53$11.86Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of dream-life, mystery and music, sexual obsession and the... -
Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck 9781800172951
RRP: $25.33$17.43"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... -
Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530011Author Don MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $21.43$14.14Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.Book InformationISBN 9780876858639Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
No Map Or Mirror by Kit Allsopp 9781804395165
RRP: $9.73$7.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804395165Author Kit AllsoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Collected Poems: Gillian Clarke by Gillian Clarke 9781857543353
RRP: $29.23$21.00The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her... -
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen 9781913738389
RRP: $38.98$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022 (India).Book InformationISBN 9781913738389Author Sudeep SenFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Pippa Rann Books &... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
RRP: $25.33$16.69Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic... -
Selected Poetry by John Donne
RRP: $17.53$12.58John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'...