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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... -
The Knucklebone Floor by Linda France 9781838465377
RRP: £7.99£5.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838465377Author Linda FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
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... -
One Poem a Day: A Writer's Daily Journal of Words & Inspiration by Nadia Hayes
RRP: £13.99£12.58Each 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,... -
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,... -
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... -
Sailing Alone Around The Room by Billy Collins
RRP: £11.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. Nominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375755194Author Billy CollinsFormat... -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by R. H. Sin 9781449480356 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.88Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin's first book is a bestseller and continues to delight his one million followers. R.H. Sin's second... -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by R. H. Sin
RRP: £12.99£8.18Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin's first book is a bestseller and continues to delight his one million followers. R.H. Sin's second... -
The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine by Kathleen Raine
RRP: £20.00£13.86In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as... -
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad
RRP: £12.99£10.13In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of... -
White Pine by Mary Oliver 9780156001205
RRP: £16.00£11.16In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. "[Her] poems are...as genuine, moving and... -
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition by Gertrude Stein 9780872866355
RRP: £7.99£5.50This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein's corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes out on the centennial of its original publication, and... -
Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems by Frank O'Hara 9781857546880
RRP: £9.95£6.97Frank O'Hara (1926-66) composed poems 'any time, any place', collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O'Hara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and... -
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £25.00£16.99It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as... -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: £27.00£26.47Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon
RRP: £9.99£6.64Austin Kleon is a cartoonist and poet from Austin, Texas, who takes a page from an existing newspaper and blacks out words until he finds a new hidden meaning in the text. Hilarious and profound, silly and contemplative, the poems in this collection will... -
I Find You in the Darkness: Poems by Alfa
RRP: £15.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250202628Author AlfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 127mm *... -
Conversations with Nature by Peter Owen Jones 9781912992416
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Once, we were one form among many in the garden. We learned to hear the voices of the mountains, the rivers, the sky, of silence. The mice spoke, the trees spoke, the stars spoke, the deer and the fox spoke, the snake spoke - and from these words we... -
Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems by Peter Gizzi 9781784108229
RRP: £14.99£10.77Gathered from over thirty years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly resonance - in Gizzi's work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: £12.99£9.09A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he was sixty. Presented in rough chronological order, the... -
Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £6.99£5.26Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to... -
Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib by Guru Nanak
RRP: £29.95£25.95An exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the sacred tenets cherished by millions of Sikhs worldwide.Guru Nanak (1469-1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core... -
The Odyssey (Collins Classics) by Homer 9780007420094
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more... -
What the Trumpet Taught Me by Kim Moore 9781914914140
RRP: £8.99£6.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914140Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780486295770
RRP: £3.49£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295770Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer 9781908058713
RRP: £9.99£6.99A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the... -
Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss
RRP: £16.00£11.24A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to... -
Do Not Go Gentle by Neil Astley
RRP: £12.00£8.00This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are poems here for churchgoers and believers, including... -
Kabir by Robert Bly
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063804Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 140mm * 9mm -
William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth 9780571328789
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Iron Bridge by Rebecca Hurst 9781800173941
RRP: £12.99£8.43Rebecca Hurst's first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The book's places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and... -
Selected Poems by John Glenday
RRP: £14.99£10.95Selected Poems collects the work of one of our foremost lyric poets, John Glenday. The elemental themes long associated with Glenday's name are strongly represented here: the sea, the sky; light and its absence; the spirit in the secular age; our natural... -
A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016202Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Collected Poems by Edwin Morgan 9781857541885
RRP: £25.00£17.72To catch "in full sight" is Edwin Morgan's ambition. That fullness he achieves in lyric epiphanies, in the cumulative focuses and refocuses of sequences, in the reification of words in concrete poems, in the rhythms of sound poems. He hears and... -
Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom by Rumi
RRP: £12.99£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970258Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
Fool's Gold: Poetry and Postcards by Arch Hades 9781528987950 [USED COPY]
£35.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528987950Author Arch HadesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Gloria: Selected Poems by Selima Hill
RRP: £20.00£13.75Selima Hill's poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout "Gloria", a comprehensive selection drawn from ten formally diverse... -
Landing Light by Don Paterson
RRP: £9.99£6.70WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Landing Light is Don Paterson's most accomplished and spiritual collection to date. In these poems, he guides us down the labyrinths of our deepest and most private concerns, pursuing the intimacy that the...