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Uncollected Poems by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £15.00£9.80R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is a major writer of our time, one of the finest religious poets in the English language and one of Wales's greatest poets. His output was prolific: over six decades he published some 25 individual collections of poems, as well as... -
The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service 9780713654356
£18.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Collected Poems: Volume Two by Henry Normal 9781838470333
RRP: £17.95£14.18Henry Normal's Collected Poems, Volume Two includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and Swallowing the Entire Ocean. The poems in This Phantom Breath are concerned with love, death, truth and other... -
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £14.99£10.95A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of... -
It Was That One Moment...: Dan Hughes' Poetry and Reflections on a Life of Making Relationships with Children and Young People Daniel A. Hughes 9781903269213
RRP: £14.99£14.49Each poem is tenderly crafted, reflecting Dan's extraordinary capacity to notice and value even the most subtle and transitory movement in a child's face, indicative of what might be going on inside him or her. The poems rveal his profound understanding... -
The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald 9780571218578
RRP: £9.99£6.70Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare,... -
Sturge Town: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781845235741
RRP: £12.99£8.94Sturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes' work as a poet, from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is witnessing his children occupying the space he once... -
Us by Zaffar Kunial
RRP: £12.99£7.38From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar Kunial is just such a poet and guide for us today. Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his... -
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£9.16"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.About the AuthorAdrienne... -
Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Alice Walker 9780753819616
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 Wood in Winter by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598425Author John Lewis-StempelFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson 9781529051117
RRP: £14.99£10.95Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you will love this book.' Val McDermidThe new book from the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of... -
Family Values by Wendy Cope
RRP: £10.99£7.32From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging... -
Bob Dylan – How the Songs Work by Timothy Hampton
RRP: £20.00£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130369Author Timothy HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm * 19mm -
Woods etc. by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99£8.56Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these... -
Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz 9781800171077
RRP: £10.99£7.64A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021. A White Review Book of the Year 2021. In this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present - their endurance and achievements, told from their points... -
When The Swimming Pool Fell In The Sea by Carole Coates 9781912524778
RRP: £10.00£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524778Author Carole CoatesFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
RRP: £12.99£9.09Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing from Spenser, Shakespeare, and... -
Things You Find in a Poet's Beard by A. F. Harrold
RRP: £9.99£6.99Things You Find in a Poet's Beard is a collection of poems that have been shouted at children from schools to church halls. They are a curation of silly tales that have been illustrated and bound into a book. Perhaps you'll want to annoy your family by... -
Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Poetry Noticed, Published and Performed by Sophia Blackwell
RRP: £20.00£15.32Poetry is increasingly democratic in its use of different formats, but it can be difficult to know how to navigate the range of options available. In a competitive field, this information is not always easy to access, and many poets make mistakes. This... -
Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology by Donald Macaulay
RRP: £15.00£9.81This indispensable anthology contains selections of the best work by Scotland's most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets: Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Iain Crichton Smith, Derick Thomson and Donald MacAulay. Designed as much for English readers of... -
Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems by Stewart Conn
RRP: £12.99£11.01An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers. Expressions of affection and accounts of imprisonment and... -
The Life Of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9781857151015
RRP: £20.00£15.29The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the... -
Vinegar Hill by Colm Toibin 9781800171619
RRP: £12.99£8.94Winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021. From the highly acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion and belonging through a modern lens. Fans of Colm Toibin's novels, including... -
Love, Life and Death in a Teacup by Sarah Priest 9781788481038
£14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788481038Author Sarah PriestFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
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... -
A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh poems of romance, desire and devotion by M. Wynn Thomas
RRP: £9.99£7.58A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they... -
Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver 9780395850862
£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395850862Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 560g -
Notes on Water by Amanda Dalton 9781914914164
RRP: £6.50£4.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914164Author Amanda DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 3mm -
Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas by Gottfried Von Strassburg
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for... -
Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet 9781449481001
RRP: £11.99£8.43Dirty Pretty Things is the international bestseller by Michael Faudet. A finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards, his whimsical and often erotic writing has already captured the hearts and minds of literally thousands of readers from around... -
Poems by Lord George Gordon Byron 9781857157147
RRP: £12.00£8.44Byron's poetry took Europe by storm in the early nineteenth century and the poems which made him a star are here represented by a selection of the early lyrics, including still popular pieces such as 'She walks in beauty' and 'We'll go a no more... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780571328758
RRP: £12.99£8.56A 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 among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,... -
A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds 9780195120820
RRP: £30.99£26.91Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore... -
Burns for Every Day of the Year by Robert Burns 9781785302985
RRP: £20.00£14.69Join Robert Burns on a wide-ranging journey of poetry, prose and song through every day of the year . . . take 366 daily dips into Burns to inspire, invigorate and amuse.Across the world, as midnight strikes on New Year's Eve, Burns's beloved song 'Auld... -
Girl by Rebecca Goss 9781784107239
RRP: £9.99£6.99Shortlisted for the 2019 East Anglian Book (Poetry) Award. In Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics... -
Do Angels Need Haircuts?: Early Poems by Lou Reed: 2018 by Lou Reed
RRP: £25.00£16.73In August of 1970, 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative isolation, the musician refashioned himself, publicly... -
Burning Season Yvonne Reddick 9781780376455
RRP: £10.99£7.40Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature's defiance. Yvonne Reddick's understanding of climate change is uniquely personal: her father was a petroleum engineer, and many members of her family worked in the fossil fuel... -
I Saw a Little Fox by David Bowerbank 9781035851614
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035851614Author David BowerbankFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Poems & Fragments by Sappho
RRP: £12.99£8.60This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she...