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The Arctic by Don Paterson
RRP: £14.99£9.80'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love... -
XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century by Campbell McGrath 9780062427366
RRP: £13.99£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062427366Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 325g -
Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck 9781800172951
RRP: £12.99£8.94"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... -
The Funny Side by Wendy Cope
RRP: £10.99£7.32In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole... -
WITCH by Rebecca Tamas
RRP: £9.99£6.99"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: £12.00£8.00This 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... -
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
RRP: £12.99£8.56WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in... -
Jimmy's Blues And Other Poems by James Baldwin
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807084861Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
'We Needed Coffee but...' by Matthew Welton 9781847770028
RRP: £9.95£6.97'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... -
Sit! by Matt Harvey 9781912690442 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£3.49Claudia Schmid's drawings meet Matt Harvey's words in this affectionate look at dogs and their humans. Sit! is an entertaining, occasionally surreal, but mostly down to earth celebration of the strange, satisfying relationship between dog and human... -
Mylo the Dino by Alex Miarli 9781839527708
RRP: £9.99£9.61Mylo 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... -
In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch Poets by Rob Schouten 9781854113139
RRP: £9.95£6.97Apologies 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 -
School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson 9780571383511
RRP: £12.99£8.18In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in... -
Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions by Robert Hethmon
RRP: £19.99£16.18Apologies 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... -
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: £40.00£28.28For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition.The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete... -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781789295467
RRP: £12.99£8.32Great 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: £10.99£7.77Carol 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: £9.99£7.11It 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: £9.99£7.11Apologies 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: £16.99£12.08To 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... -
The Feel-Good Movie of the Year by Luke Wright 9781908058867
RRP: £9.99£6.99'My poor old heart, I've left its drawbridge down' Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans, empty car seats, and his father's skeleton clocks... -
Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy 9781857157178
RRP: £9.99£7.11Distringuished 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. by Tony Harrison
RRP: £9.95£6.78Tony 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... -
Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £11.99£7.18`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of... -
Canti: The Most Important Book of Modern Italian Poetry by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £10.99£8.68First 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: £16.99£12.47Selected 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... -
On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
RRP: £9.99£7.11`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines... -
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage 9780571353392
RRP: £14.99£9.80When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come. Now, Armitage's reputation as one... -
Collected Poems 1943-2004: N/A by Richard Wilbur 9781904130178
RRP: £14.99£11.17Apologies 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 -
Halcyon by Gabriele D'Annunzio
RRP: £12.99£8.94Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece "Halcyon" in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a... -
Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies 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 *... -
No Map Or Mirror by Kit Allsopp 9781804395165
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies 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 -
52: Write a Poem a Week. Start Now. Keep Going by Jo Bell
RRP: £14.99£10.77The 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. It became a phenomenon. Hundreds of poets took up the challenge and their poems swept the board of poetry prizes, publications and personal successes.This book brings... -
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen 9781913738389
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies 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 &... -
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson 9780811221757
RRP: £39.99£35.18The Gorgeous Nothings - the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear - is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of... -
In Search of Equilibrium by Theresa Lola 9781911027683
RRP: £9.99£7.11Theresa Lola's debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving. Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family... -
Flux by Orion Carloto
RRP: £11.99£7.59"YouTube Mastermind" Orion Carloto turns raw emotion into powerful, digestible verse in her debut collection of poetry.Flux is a somber narrative, an ode to change, a collection of poetry and prose written from the many states of grief over a broken... -
The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
RRP: £20.00£13.50The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and... -
100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems by Stewart Conn 9781906307660
RRP: £7.99£5.94This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem excepting Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. These poems explore many different kinds of love: sexual,... -
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...