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Everybody Is a Poem: Midlife in Rhymes by Jan Brierton 9781848409200
RRP: £7.99£6.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409200Author Jan BriertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 148mm *... -
I Speak for the Devil by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: £12.00£8.00Imtiaz 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,... -
The Essential W.S. Merwin by W S Merwin 9781556595134
RRP: £18.00£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595134Author W S MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Hollow of the Hand by P. J. Harvey
RRP: £16.99£12.28FINALIST 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... -
Secret of the Runes by Guido Von List
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892812073Author Guido Von ListFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £12.99£8.60French-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... -
A Scattering and Anniversary by Christopher Reid
RRP: £10.99£7.32This edition brings together A Scattering and Anniversary into a single book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. A Scattering was first... -
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Emily Dickinson 9781435162563
RRP: £12.99£8.75Only 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 Complete Odes by Pindar
RRP: £11.99£8.43'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races,... -
The Song of Roland by Glyn S. Burgess
RRP: £9.99£7.11On 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... -
afterlove by Mario Petrucci
RRP: £9.99£6.99When it comes to those we love, even our most yearned-for states of union are subject to change. afterlove endures the swarming devastations of loss as consummately as it enters love's raptures, ever alive to devotion's flow and ebb. From domestic paean... -
Flood by Clare Shaw
RRP: £9.95£6.78The 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... -
Tagore: Gitanjali or Song Offerings: Introduced by W. B. Yeats by Rabindranath Tagore 9781519682451
RRP: £7.50£6.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519682451Author Sir Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Introduction to Italian Poetry: A Dual-Language Book by Luciano Rebay 9780486267159
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies 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: £12.00£8.44According 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... -
Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant 9781800171138
RRP: £10.99£7.64Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a... -
Station Island by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is... -
Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: £12.00£8.44In 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... -
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
£12.86Apologies 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 -
Sometimes I Feel...: A Menagerie of Feelings Big and Small by Sarah Maycock
RRP: £7.99£5.60Sometimes 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,... -
Selected Poems: with parallel French text by Guillaume Apollinaire
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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,... -
Noor Upon Noor by S Hukr 9780645349962
£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645349962Author S HukrFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm -
Gaudete by Ted Hughes
RRP: £14.99£9.80'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . ... -
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: £6.99£5.00The 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... -
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... -
Swims by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
RRP: £9.99£7.11Longlisted 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... -
To Fold the Evening Star: New & Selected Poems by Ian Mcmillan
RRP: £14.99£10.77Ian McMillan is among Britain's most treasured living poets. His books of poems, stories and non-fiction have delighted audiences for almost forty years. To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from eight key collections, distilling an essence of... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery 9780701173364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.34Poem 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,... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery
RRP: £18.99£13.61Poem 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,... -
The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs by Cyril Edwards
RRP: £11.99£8.43'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,... -
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard 9781908058812
RRP: £9.99£6.99Winner 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... -
The Knucklebone Floor by Linda France 9781838465377
RRP: £7.99£5.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838465377Author Linda FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
The Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £12.99£8.60Osip 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... -
Absence by Ali Lewis 9781739440503
RRP: £11.00£7.40Absence, 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... -
High Windows by Philip Larkin 9780571260140
RRP: £12.99£8.56Larkin'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... -
Emotions by Craig Harman 9781804396698
RRP: £3.99£3.14Apologies 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 -
Girls that Never Die by Safia Elhillo 9781526665546
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Incredibly moving ... Every single poem is stellar' Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger ____________________________________________ In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood... -
The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. 'Bunny' Lang 9781800173378
RRP: £16.99£10.95A 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 by Fatimah Asghar
RRP: £10.99£7.40'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... -
Gifts the Mole Gave Me by Wendy Pratt 9781908853882
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies 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