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A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears And Laughter by Nikki Giovanni 9780062399458
RRP: £21.99£13.08The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including... -
Too Brave to Dream by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £12.00£8.00When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen... -
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9780393962987
£14.28The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh's inception, evolution, and... -
The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the <i>Maximus</i> Poems by Charles Olson 9780520212312
RRP: £45.00£36.32A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson (1910-1970) has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry is marked by an almost limitless range of interest and extraordinary depth of feeling. Olson's themes are among the... -
Yevtushenko: Selected Poems by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
RRP: £8.99£7.11This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. 'Zima Junction' vividly... -
Statius: Achilleid by O.A.W. Dilke 9781904675112
£23.21Statius' Achilleid is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. Yet the completed first book and the earliest part of the second have a charm and... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: £14.99£12.55One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney 9780571144693
RRP: £12.99£8.56This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It... -
Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £20.00£13.35R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of our time, as well as one of the finest religious poets in the English language and Wales's greatest poet. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet... -
The Complete Poems by Robert Graves
RRP: £20.00£14.69Graves described poetry as his ruling passion, and for him love was 'the main theme and origin of true poems'. He created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet... -
Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 by Alice Walker
RRP: £12.99£8.60The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.'I am the womanoffering two flowerswhose roots are twin.Justice and HopeHope and JusticeLet us begin'Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she... -
The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems by William Carlos Williams 9780811227889
RRP: £8.99£7.07Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader-The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.About the... -
The <i>Beowulf</i> Manuscript: Complete Texts and <i>The Fight at Finnsburg</i> by R. D. Fulk
RRP: £29.95£23.66Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.But this volume offers something unique. For... -
I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs by Francesco Marciuliano
RRP: £9.99£7.00Dog lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness and unbridled enthusiasm of their canine pals in this hilarious collection of poems by lovable, if sometimes misguided, dogs. In these tongue-in-cheek poems, the author who successfully interpreted the... -
Love by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her... -
John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
RRP: £15.99£13.82An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly... -
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by T. Hardy
RRP: £74.99£55.73Thomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published... -
The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman 9781982186753
RRP: £12.99£8.18Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the... -
Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337298Author Linton Kwesi JohnsonPage Count 96Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm -
Hulse Collected Poems (1985-2015): Volume 1 by John Hulse 9781490766959
£20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490766959Author John HulseFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem; Also with: The Skeleton in Armor, The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Luck of Edenhall, The Elected Knight, and The Children of the Lord's Supper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9781849023405
£25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849023405Author Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems by Mike Read
RRP: £12.99£8.60Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems is a rich and varied treasury which includes not only the famous, best-loved poems you would expect to find - and all the famous poets - but also some wonderful, less well-known works. This is a selection that will... -
Material Properties by Jacob Polley
RRP: £10.99£7.77Material Properties, Jacob Polley's fiith collection of poems with Picador, asks what it might mean to interpret and translate wildness into human language and human understanding. The book is a multi-faceted and vital exploration of the non-human, the... -
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth 9781857152456
RRP: £14.00£10.16It is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry, but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the whole of nineteeth-century culture in Britain and America. His literary... -
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus
RRP: £10.99£7.32The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.Andrew Motion's Spectator Book of the Year.'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that... -
Up Late by Nick Laird 9780571378678
RRP: £14.99£9.53Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies... -
Otter: Accordion Book No 2 by Jackie Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.73An Accordion Book doesn't open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text - poems, descriptions, invocations - inspired by the same animal.Together... -
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav 9781449489892
RRP: £11.99£7.59Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including Love & Misadventure, Lullabies, and The Universe of Us, and sets sail for a grand new adventure. This completely original collection of poetry and prose... -
Burn Lake by Carrie Fountain
RRP: £20.00£11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117711Author Carrie FountainFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Sunken Heights by Elias Rønnenfelt
RRP: £25.00£16.73Debut book of poetry from musician Elias B. Ronnenfelt Presented in both the original Danish text and Ronnenfelt's own English translation, Sunken Heights balances the poet's reflections on the aggressive and primal present with strikingly romantic and... -
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou 9781844086153
RRP: £10.99£7.40A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry has stirred our souls,... -
Four Seasons by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: £12.00£8.84Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson and Thoreau; from Keats, Blake and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes and Amy Clampitt. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly... -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I by R. H. Sin 9781449488062 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.29Completely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy.Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love... -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I by R. H. Sin
RRP: £13.99£9.20Completely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy.Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love... -
Selected Poems by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £12.99£9.09Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age. Arranged in... -
Still Possible by David Whyte
RRP: £18.00£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932887556Author David WhytePage Count 156Imprint Many Rivers PressPublisher Many Rivers PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 176mm * 113mm * 12mm -
Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney 9780571101580
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation... -
I Will Not Fold These Maps by Mona Kareem
RRP: £9.00£6.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894832Author Mona KareemFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
The Signalman by Ezra Miles 9781915406385
RRP: £11.99£7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406385Author Ezra MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing -
The River by Jane Clarke
RRP: £9.95£6.78The textured language, vivid imagery and musical rhythms of Jane Clarke's debut collection convey a distinctive voice and vision. With lyrical grace these poems contemplate shadow and sorrow as well as creativity and connection. The threat of loss is...