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Translations from Memory by Fred D'Aguiar 9781784106065
RRP: £12.99£8.94The memories from which Fred D'Aguiar translates these poems are cultural and personal, from the anciencies of the Gilgamesh epic to the modern world, from classical philosophy to C.L.R. James and Aime Cesaire, from Asia and Europe to the new world in... -
A Little Primer Of Tu Fu David Hawkes 9789629966591
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629966591Author David HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
£31.90Since 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... -
All My Mad Mothers Jacqueline Saphra 9781911027201
RRP: £9.99£6.99Jacqueline Saphra's All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes - as a magician with a... -
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
RRP: £12.99£9.00'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite... -
Goodbye, Testicles! by Barbara Binland 9780244098223
RRP: £3.93£3.76This is another book of humorous verse by the Australian poet, Barbara Binland. Have a nice cup of tea, and enjoy a light read.Book InformationISBN 9780244098223Author Barbara BinlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert 9781907903496
RRP: £12.00£9.72A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These... -
Anna Akhmatova: Poems by Anna Akhamatova
RRP: £12.00£8.44From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a country where poetry was literally a matter of life and... -
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra 9780571352340
RRP: £10.00£7.12Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the... -
Christopher Marlowe by Richard Wilson 9780582237070
£48.24Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason... -
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
RRP: £10.99£8.94The New York Times BestsellerFrom former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase his trademark generosity, wit, and imaginative play.The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits... -
Collected Poems: Chinua Achebe by Chinua Achebe 9781857548433
RRP: £11.99£7.08Chinua Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature in English, a writer of world stature whose novel Things Fall Apart is one of the essential works of the twentieth century. This Collected Poems draws on his three collections of poetry,... -
Rilke on Love by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781734588125
RRP: £8.00£5.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734588125Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry by Craig Raine
RRP: £25.00£16.59'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.'My Grandmother's Glass Eye... -
Favourite Poems of England: a collection to celebrate this green and pleasant land by Jane McMorland-Hunter
RRP: £14.99£10.18A diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English - from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London's bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather. Ode to England... -
Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99£3.51One of those rare books that is immediately enjoyable yet will repay many re-readings' Poetry ReviewCarol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection, for which she was given the Somerset Maughan Award, showcases the Poet Laureate's skill even at the... -
The Need to Hold Still: Poems by Lisel Mueller 9780807106709
RRP: £14.95£9.87Winner of the National Book Award for PoetryAn adventurer, Lisel Mueller pursues the protean possibilities of communication. In Dreiser's works she finds language solid, ""as plain as money, / a workable means of exchange."" More often she experiences... -
Voice of the Two Shores by Agnes Agboton
RRP: £8.99£8.72Drawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is faithfully reproduced through the net of two... -
The Masnavi, Book Five by Jalal al-Din Rumi 9780192857071
RRP: £9.99£7.11'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.' This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of... -
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan 9780393322248
RRP: £24.00£19.75Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust... -
Selected Poems: Eluard: Dual-language Edition Paul Eluard 9780714550770
RRP: £9.99£7.11The poetry of Eluard is that of the real world and its natural sensations and feelings. The main themes that stand out are love, brotherhood and kindness. His imagery is characterized by its appeal to the senses and the importance of concrete objects and... -
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power 9781784105341
RRP: £9.99£6.99Longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. Winner of the... -
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Emily Dickinson 9781435162563
RRP: £12.99£8.57Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century. This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works... -
Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare
RRP: £14.99£9.80Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's... -
Pablo Picasso's Noel by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A sweet winter light blushedas Pablo Picasso walked his dogunder the cypress treesand the bell of the old chapel guessed at the hour.It was Christmas Eve.'Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's new Christmas poem, Pablo Picasso's Noel follows the famous... -
One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth 9780811206198
RRP: £11.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811206198Author Kenneth RexrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing... -
High Windows by Philip Larkin 9780571260140
RRP: £12.99£8.56Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his... -
I Think of You by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.56This 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... -
This Happy Spirit by John Clare 9780956411334
£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956411334Author John ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint John Clare SocietyPublisher John Clare SocietyWeight(grams) 140g -
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
RRP: £10.00£6.71A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the... -
Small Acts of Kindness: A Tale of the First Russian Revolution Jennifer Antill 9781914414992
RRP: £12.99£9.09St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the glory of victory over Napoleon, but in the army and elsewhere resentment is growing against serfdom and autocracy. Vasily, a pleasure loving, privileged young man, returns home from abroad... -
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
RRP: £10.99£6.47'It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush... There have been moments when, for me, its... -
Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: £3.99£2.98In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to... -
Heart On My Sleeve by Attila The Stockbroker 9781909454873
RRP: £17.00£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909454873Author Attila The StockbrokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Cherry Red RecordsPublisher Cherry Red RecordsDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
RRP: £12.99£8.56Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly... -
Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: £10.99£7.93The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most... -
Discombobulated and Other Poems by Michelle L. L. Feltham 9781398495951
RRP: £6.99£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495951Author Michelle L. L. FelthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems by Jim Carroll
RRP: £24.00£16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140586954Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 138mm *... -
Politics by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Politics, 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 politics and protest, drawing on work written over four decades... -
Truth Street by David Cain 9781999674243
RRP: £7.99£5.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999674243Author David CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books