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The Darkness of Snow by Frank Ormsby
RRP: $20.90$14.24The Darkness of Snow is Frank Ormsby's most varied and versatile collection to date. It includes three substantial sets of poems whose themes are refreshingly and sometimes painfully new. One is a suite of poems - sombre, good-humoured, flippant - about... -
The Sun is Open by Gail McConnell 9781908058928
RRP: $20.98$14.68Winner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the author's father,... -
The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay
RRP: $23.08$15.54Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2022 The Adoption... -
Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock 9781780376844
RRP: $73.50$47.10Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational... -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney 9780571342532
RRP: $39.88$29.04'A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.' Michael Hofmann, TLSHeaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also poems from a great number of ancient and modern European... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $23.08$20.56Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
You are Her by Linda France 9781906570552
RRP: $20.98$14.68Linda France's seventh full-length collection is concerned with the dualities of our inner and outer worlds - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experiment, ideal and reality. At the heart of the book is a section look at Nature and... -
Rainbow Splinters by Paul Palmer 9781805141785
RRP: $18.88$13.55After leaving school at 15 with a CDB (Could Do Better) after his name, Paul Palmer decided he in fact could do better and wrote down his many takes on life. This book is packed full of nostalgic observations on life, play on words and sometimes... -
Morning Breaks In The Elevator by Lemn Sissay 9780862418380 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$10.16Lemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay's work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation as one of the UK's foremost poets as he ably moves from loud... -
Morning Breaks In The Elevator by Lemn Sissay
RRP: $20.98$14.07Lemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay's work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation as one of the UK's foremost poets as he ably moves from loud... -
Selected Poems Eilean Ni Chuilleanain by Eileann Ni Chuilleanain
RRP: $31.48$20.58A renowned Irish poet, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has published 7 collections of poetry. Born in Cork City in 1942, her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene... -
Love Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: $25.20$17.72It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $18.88$17.09This fresh edition of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnets, developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a Foreword by the actor/director, Fiona Shaw. Its easily accessible layout and elegant design make it the ideal gift for any special... -
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott 9780571209125
RRP: $27.28$17.98A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the... -
I am a Jigsaw: Puzzling poems to baffle your brain by Roger Stevens
RRP: $16.78$11.47From acrostics and riddles to kennings and paradiddles, this is a fun anthology of puzzling poems which also encourages children to have a go at writing poetry themselves. I am a Jigsaw is perfect for teachers who want to introduce different forms of... -
Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan
RRP: $27.28$17.47Hannah 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... -
A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 by Wendell Berry 9781619029422
RRP: $33.58$24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029422Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
I Think of You by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $27.28$17.98This new collection is a fascinating journey into the heart of each of us - from the author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the 44 Scotland Street series. In I Think of You, the reader travels through literary Edinburgh in summer, heartbreak... -
One Robe, One Bowl by John Stevens
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805705Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)... -
Modern Fog by Chris Emery 9781911469544
RRP: $23.08$16.04Emery brings an unusually wide-ranging poetic vocabulary to the encounters in Modern Fog, depicting wildlife on the Norfolk Broads or a multi-storey car park with equal fluency. These are elegiac, tough-minded poems of marked originality and scope."It's... -
Oyster by Michael Pedersen 9781846973970 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$13.38Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery... -
Oyster by Michael Pedersen
RRP: $27.28$17.98Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery... -
Say It With Me by Vanessa Lampert
RRP: $20.98$14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727010Author Vanessa LampertFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm -
Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough 9781908058638
RRP: $20.98$14.68Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. . Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough. These exuberant poems welcome... -
Turtle Island by Gary Snyder 9780811205467
RRP: $25.18$19.38These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives... -
Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan 9780571371273
RRP: $27.28$17.47'Who knew that writing with this degree of care and pain and tact was still possible? For my money it's the best first volume in decades, I would say since Tom Paulin's A State of Justice (1977): no dead weight, foot-perfect and engaging.' Michael... -
Orain Red by Kenneth Macleod 9780861521791
RRP: $14.68$12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861521791Author Kenneth MacleodFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 5mm -
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems by Shane McCrae
RRP: $23.08$15.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation' Garth... -
Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $20.98$14.93Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politics and reggae... -
Beowulf: A Prose Translation by Nicholas Howe 9780393974065
$43.01Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings of Beowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on... -
Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin
RRP: $25.20$16.80W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American... -
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna by Betty De Shong Meador
RRP: $46.18$36.83The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. High Priestess to the moon god Nanna, Enheduanna came to venerate the goddess Inanna above all gods in the Sumerian pantheon... -
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $77.60$65.39Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's... -
The Surrender Theory: Poems by Caitlin Conlon
RRP: $27.28$17.18The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and... -
wild spirit, soft heart by Butterflies Rising 9780578643540
RRP: $32.93$29.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578643540Author Butterflies RisingFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Butterflies RisingPublisher Butterflies RisingWeight(grams) 594g -
100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books by William Sieghart 9780571333172 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.65'The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous'Carol Ann Duffy100 Prized Poems brings together the best of the poems published over a quarter century in twenty-five editions of the Forward books... -
100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books by William Sieghart
RRP: $20.98$14.07'The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous'Carol Ann Duffy100 Prized Poems brings together the best of the poems published over a quarter century in twenty-five editions of the Forward books... -
If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird 9781943735471
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735471Author Blythe BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $27.28$19.09This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.The Selected... -
To Palestine with Love by Najwa Kawar Farah 9789963610372
RRP: $17.85$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789963610372Author Najwa Kawar FarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Rimal Publications,CyprusPublisher Rimal Publications,CyprusWeight(grams)...