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Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
RRP: $29.23$21.35A 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... -
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck 9781847774798
RRP: $19.40$13.59Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection 'At last the night surrounded me; / I floated on it, perhaps in it, / or it carried me as a river carries / a boat'. In Louise Gluck's new collection, night takes on the dimensions of myth,... -
Sidelines: Selected Prose 1962-2015 by Michael Longley 9781911253297
RRP: $58.50$41.63Michael Longley's prose centres on poetry. This is so, even when he is writing autobiographically, or reflecting on war and memory, or enthusing about music and painting. Since Longley writes relatively little criticism, readers of his poetry have lacked... -
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $25.33$16.69Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $25.33$16.69The 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... -
One Poem a Day: A Writer's Daily Journal of Words & Inspiration by Nadia Hayes
RRP: $27.28$24.14Each page provides a brand-new prompt designed to stretch you as an artist and a person. Fill-in-the-blanks to create a touching love sonnet; compose a haiku about your biggest mistake; or write a free verse poem on anything from hope, to a locked door,... -
Maldoror and Poems by Comte de Lautreamont
RRP: $25.33$19.11Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: $19.48$13.86Beginning 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... -
Walk A Little Slower: A Collection of Poems and Other Words by Tanner Olson 9780578983424
$22.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578983424Author Tanner OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Written to Speak, LLCPublisher Written to Speak, LLCWeight(grams) 132g -
Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan 9780571371273
RRP: $25.33$16.22'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... -
Selected Poems by Robert Graves
RRP: $29.23$19.11An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves's poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet,... -
Haywire: New & Selected Poems Luljeta Lleshanaku 9781852249137
RRP: $19.40$13.22Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through intense, powerful lyrics, she explores how these... -
Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems Ephrem the Syrian 9780934893657
RRP: $58.50$49.24Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of... -
Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship by Coleman Barks
RRP: $23.38$16.11Now in paperback, considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, "The Big Red Book" is one of the masterpieces of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America.About the AuthorColeman Barks is a... -
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anais Duplan
RRP: $27.28$18.06Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anais Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by... -
The Esoterism of Dante by Rene Guenon 9780900588648
$25.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588648Author Rene GuenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 131g -
Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition by Walter Whitman
RRP: $42.90$29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600763Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 193mm *... -
Sex & Love & Rock&Roll by Tony Walsh
RRP: $19.48$13.63This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical... -
Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems by Martin Shaw
RRP: $35.10$20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Dramatic new retellings of Celtic poetry's great lyrics and legendsAbout the AuthorMartin Shaw is a mythologist, a storyteller, an author, and a designer of mythic life and oral... -
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav 9781449456146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$3.74Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair-from the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the... -
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav
RRP: $19.48$12.50Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair-from the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the... -
Staring Directly at the Eclipse by Henry Normal 9781999670733
RRP: $17.55$14.57Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic... -
Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $19.48$13.86A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, from... -
Something in the Water: Fictions by Luke O'Neil
RRP: $29.23$19.27A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life. Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified by the earth's looming mortality, and their own, but... -
My Heart Cries Out: Gospel Meditations for Everyday Life by Paul David Tripp
RRP: $35.08$26.03Paul David Tripp shares his celebrations, disappointments, cries for help, confessions, and confusions in the form of 120 poems written as he experienced God's grace in various seasons of his life.About the AuthorPaul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster... -
Morning Breaks In The Elevator Lemn Sissay 9780862418380
RRP: $19.48$13.07Lemn 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... -
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo by Buonarroti Michelangelo
RRP: $33.15$32.53Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic... -
Ballard Spahr Prize 2023 Winner: Poems by Caroline Harper New 9781571315304
RRP: $23.38$15.60Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history’s most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.Rooted in the Gulf Coast, A History of Half-Birds measures the line... -
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
RRP: $25.33$16.69Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with... -
Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan 9780571362288
RRP: $25.33$16.69Hannah 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... -
Yehuda Amichai Selected Poems by Yehuda Amichai
RRP: $29.23$19.11Yehuda Amichai was first brought to attention in this country by his inclusion in Modern Poetry in Translation (1965). The magazine's editors, Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes, here provide a selection of Amichai's poetry translated by various hands,... -
Source: Poems by Distinguished Writer Mark Doty 9780060935405
RRP: $31.18$21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935405Author Distinguished Writer Mark DotyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Thorpeness by Alison Brackenbury 9781800172258
RRP: $25.33$17.43There is something richly circumstantial about Alison Brackenbury's poems: they are often rooted in a rural world, or in townscapes which sustain communities and preserve a strong sense of their history and what it gives them. Thorpeness has delicious... -
Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney 9780571144693
RRP: $25.33$16.69This 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... -
Green Shoots Rising by Andy Tooze
RRP: $17.53$12.58Green Shoots Rising is an exciting and stimulating collection of poems aimed primarily at primary age children. It's full of thought provoking and amusing poems which children, and adults will love. The 'green shoots' of the title are a play on words... -
Full Circle Undivided: Poems-Volume 1 by Wendy E Slater
$32.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943512034Author Wendy E SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wendy E. SlaterPublisher Wendy E. SlaterWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
Pierre Reverdy Pierre Reverdy 9781590176795
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: $19.48$13.86'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric... -
brainwaves by Ziggy Alberts 9780648705710
RRP: $27.28$19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648705710Author Ziggy AlbertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Commonfolk PublishingPublisher Commonfolk Publishing -
Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke 9780865476073
RRP: $29.25$19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476073Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...