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White Pine by Mary Oliver 9780156001205
RRP: $31.20$21.55In 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... -
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $48.75$33.13It 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... -
Country Music by Will Burns 9781916015913
RRP: $19.50$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916015913Author Will BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Offord Road BooksPublisher Offord Road Books -
I Find You in the Darkness: Poems by Alfa
RRP: $31.18$19.54Apologies 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 *... -
Dear Boy by Emily Berry
RRP: $25.33$16.69Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for... -
Real Cardiff Two: 2 by Peter Finch 9781854113849
RRP: $19.48$13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113849Author Peter FinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 275g -
Conversations with Nature Peter Owen Jones 9781912992416
RRP: $21.43$15.15'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... -
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $39.00$28.65New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a... -
Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems by Peter Gizzi 9781784108229
RRP: $29.23$21.00Gathered 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... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: $48.65$45.61Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
The Complete Poems by William Empson
RRP: $39.00$27.87Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation contines to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes... -
Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
RRP: $25.33$17.73Originally 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... -
For Every One by Jason Reynolds
RRP: $15.58$10.20Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and Carnegie Medal winner Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the young dreamers... -
Poetics Aristotle Aristotle 9780486295770
RRP: $6.81$5.03Apologies 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)... -
Selected Poetry by John Donne
RRP: $17.53$12.58John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'... -
Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Ovid 9780393326420
RRP: $27.28$23.89Ovid's epic poem-whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages-is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a... -
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer 9781908058713
RRP: $19.48$13.63A 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: $31.20$21.47A 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 Neil Astley 9781852246358
RRP: $23.40$15.60This 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... -
Vinegar Hill by Colm Toibin 9781800171619
RRP: $25.33$17.43Winner 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... -
The Iron Bridge by Rebecca Hurst 9781800173941
RRP: $25.33$16.44Rebecca 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: $29.23$21.35Selected 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
$24.12Apologies 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 -
The Odyssey (Collins Classics) by Homer 9780007420094
RRP: $5.83$4.56HarperCollins 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... -
Collected Poems Edwin Morgan 9781857541885
RRP: $48.75$34.55To 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: $25.33$18.23Apologies 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]
$70.18Apologies 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 Selima Hill 9781852248055
RRP: $39.00$26.81Selima 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: $19.48$13.07WINNER 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... -
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand 9780241639795
RRP: $33.13$23.95An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a... -
Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris
RRP: $21.43$14.39how to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? No quaint, no dainty, no winsome. This smells good, that smells bad, my hands rank with manure. This at least is pure. What is a plant in language? Something like a 'morose... -
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin 9780571335596
RRP: $78.00$57.31Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a... -
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton 9780199261390
$68.72Why should a poet feel the need to be original? What is the relationship between genius and apprenticeship? James Fenton examines some of the most intriguing questions behind the making of the art - issues of creativity and the 'earning' of success, of... -
Susceptible to Light: Poetry by Chelan Harkin by Chelan Harkin 9780578807270
RRP: $29.25$21.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578807270Author Chelan HarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Chelan HarkinPublisher Chelan HarkinWeight(grams) 140g -
Selected Poetry by Lord George Gordon Byron
RRP: $13.63$10.00Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the... -
What Do We Know: Poems And Prose Poems by Mary Oliver 9780306812064
RRP: $27.28$21.31Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep it reads like a blessing," wrote Stanley Kunitz many years ago and recently, Rita Dove described her last volume, The Leaf and the Cloud, as "a brilliant meditation." For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's dazzling... -
Another Lad of Evesham Vale: Poetry from Evesham (Asum) and the Vale by Bob Woodroofe 9780995729049
RRP: $13.63$12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995729049Author Bob WoodroofeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint The Greenwood PressPublisher The Greenwood PressWeight(grams) 154g -
Complete and Utter Cult by Elvis McGonagall
RRP: $19.48$13.63Stand-up poet, comedian and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall returns with Complete and Utter Cult! the follow-up to 2017's "Viva Loch Lomond!". This new collection of satirical verse captures Elvis' ongoing futile exasperation at the dismal... -
Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer 9781946482693
RRP: $31.20$24.57Sean Singer's radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman's, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient... -
The Awakening of Intelligence by J. Krishnamurti 9780060648343
RRP: $38.98$24.28This work provides a wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition, the need for awareness of "cosmic consciousness", the problem of good and evil, and methods of...