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Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
RRP: £9.99£6.80The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods and moments: from the first... -
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
RRP: £10.99£7.32WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARDPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for... -
The Exeter Book Riddles by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781904634461
RRP: £9.95£7.08The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century "Exeter Book" are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: £8.99£6.08In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Selected Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: £7.99£5.79Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of `he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and... -
Three Hundred Tang Poems by Peter Harris 9781841597829
RRP: £12.00£8.44These some three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)-an age in which poetry and the arts flourished-were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes... -
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
RRP: £14.99£10.95A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better ... Kapla... -
Collected Poems: Gillian Clarke by Gillian Clarke 9781857543353
RRP: £14.99£10.77The 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... -
Dear Strong Black Woman: Letters of Nourishment and Reflection from One Strong Black Woman to Another by Jennifer Sterling 9781944134211
RRP: £15.95£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944134211Author Jennifer SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint One Idea PressPublisher One Idea PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
£31.61Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.About... -
Space Between The Thoughts by Sarah Miller 9781797517353
RRP: £11.99£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797517353Author Sarah MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Selected Poems by Paul Celan
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath 9780571351169
RRP: £12.99£8.56The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are... -
Selected Poems by U. A. Fanthorpe
RRP: £9.99£7.11U. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity. Since her death, much of... -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love... -
Invisible by Jacek Gutorow
RRP: £10.99£7.64"Invisible is a teasing title for a collection of poetry. [Wallace] Stevens, with whose work Jacek Gutorow has a deep and sustained engagement, suggested in 'The Creations of Sound', that poems should 'make the visible a little hard / To see' [...] Both... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780571226733 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£3.59A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose amongThe bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensongOf joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £8.99£6.08A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose amongThe bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensongOf joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
RRP: £15.99£12.30This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and... -
Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text by William Langland
RRP: £10.99£7.77This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, for its deeply imaginative religious... -
Lullabies by Lang Leav 9781449461072
RRP: £11.99£7.59Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Prelude and travels through Duet, Interlude, and Requiem with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry... -
Women in Praise of the Sacred by Jane Hirshfield 9780060925765
£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925765Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Last Days of Troy by Simon Armitage
RRP: £10.99£7.32Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer's... -
Love Poems that Rhyme: The Rosanne Collection by Carlos Alberto Amezcua 9781508665960
RRP: £6.00£5.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508665960Author Carlos Alberto AmezcuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Works by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: £16.99£12.68This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance.Reviews` ... the general introduction and... -
The Pocket Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi 9781590306352
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306352Author Mevlana Jalaluddin RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
In My Head by J M Storm
RRP: £14.00£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322068Author J M StormFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Monarch Publishing LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)... -
FURY by David Morley 9781784109905
RRP: £10.99£7.64Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Choice Shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection FURY sees the Ted Hughes Award winner David Morley once more seeking to give imaginative voice to the natural world and to those silenced or overlooked... -
Forever, Now by Helen Cadbury
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853943Author Helen CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 by Helen Dame Gardner 9780198121367
RRP: £38.49£28.35The New Oxford Book of English Verse is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and critic, Dame Helen Gardner, the book makes available in one volume the full range and variety of English... -
Poems and Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780141396903
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written... -
The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse by J M Cohen
RRP: £18.99£14.01'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and... -
A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse by Lennox Robinson 9781035026579
RRP: £10.99£7.00Originally published in 1925, A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse is an impressive and beautifully crafted collection of the best of Irish poetry from ancient times to the early twentieth century. It features folklore and legend, often beautifully... -
Iggy Horse by Michael Earl Craig 9781950268795
RRP: £24.99£16.72In Michael Earl Craig's sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the "Italy of God,"... -
New Selected Poems by Denise Levertov
RRP: £15.00£9.80This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her... -
Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan 9780571362288
RRP: £12.99£8.56Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map... -
Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: £9.99£7.11This 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 Sidney's poetry and prose - all the major writing, complemented by... -
Stranger to Nothing by Philip Levine
RRP: £12.00£8.00Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he... -
Part of My Soul Went with Him by Winnie Mandela 9780393302905
RRP: £16.00£12.53Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one...