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Epigrams: With parallel Latin text by Martial
RRP: $23.08$16.32'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the... -
Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $16.78$11.47In 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... -
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney 9780571347155
RRP: $39.88$28.58Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists... -
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats 9781398829916
RRP: $18.88$11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398829916Author W. B. YeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Eavan Boland 9780393321784
RRP: $31.48$25.73Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle,... -
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish 9780520273030
RRP: $52.50$40.28Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143105138
RRP: $31.48$23.84Robert Fagles's latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to... -
Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $63.00$43.47In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of... -
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
RRP: $23.08$16.32Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago.Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. Book of... -
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver 9780571359905
RRP: $23.08$15.37FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORThe poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: $20.98$15.31This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together all Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to give the essence of his... -
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology by Faubion Bowers
RRP: $8.38$6.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486292748Author Faubion BowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
RRP: $27.28$17.81Sometimes it's difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace, drawing on invaluable lessons from nature... -
Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
RRP: $25.18$16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156724005Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 116gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm... -
These Are the Words by Nikita Gill
RRP: $16.78$12.16From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140447941
RRP: $20.98$14.93'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the... -
Glass And God by Anne Carson
RRP: $31.50$23.02Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking... -
Arthurian Romances by Chretien
RRP: $31.48$24.23Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous... -
Swimming Lessons: Poems by Lili Reinhart 9780008365677
RRP: $27.28$17.81I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don't lose your place. ... -
Jabberwocky and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll 9780486415826
RRP: $6.28$4.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486415826Author Lewis CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)... -
In The Cairngorms by Nan Shepherd
RRP: $20.98$14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385333Author Nan ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 174g -
God Complex by Rachael Allen 9780571379910
RRP: $27.28$17.98God Complex is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of progressive environmental degradation. A grieving body moves through states of toxicity, becoming an instrument... -
Ache by Scarlett Ward 9781912565238
RRP: $20.98$14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565238Author Scarlett WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
$26.36The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled... -
Yapping Away: Poems by Joshua Seigal by Joshua Seigal
RRP: $14.68$12.16WINNER OF THE LAUGH OUT LOUD AWARDS AND THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE Joshua Seigal, winner of the 2020 and 2023 Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (the only UK prize for funny children's books voted for entirely by children), brings his raucous humour, creativity... -
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
RRP: $31.48$19.66A revised hardcover edition of the Number One Sunday Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the Number One Sunday Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and... -
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage
RRP: $27.28$17.98Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those 'private, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780141393216
RRP: $39.88$29.42Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The... -
The Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: $39.88$29.42A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from... -
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
RRP: $23.08$16.19Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the most... -
People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill
RRP: $20.90$14.24"People Who Like Meatballs" brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). The title-sequence, "People Who Like Meatballs", is about a man's humiliation by a woman. Into my... -
Horse Music by Matthew Sweeney
RRP: $20.90$14.24Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he hits in "Horse Music" are lyrical and touching as well as disturbing and disquieting. Confronting him in these imaginative riffs are not just the... -
Clever Backbone by John Agard
RRP: $23.08$15.54John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables. In "Clever Backbone", the Guyanese-born word magician plays havoc with biology and makes a monkey out of Darwinian evolution - on... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: $20.98$14.93'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history... -
Giraffe by Bryony Littlefair 9781781724620
RRP: $10.50$7.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781781724620Author Bryony LittlefairPage Count 28Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393927559
$38.87The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the... -
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip
RRP: $27.28$18.06This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine... -
Disko Bay by Nancy Campbell 9781910392188
RRP: $20.98$14.93The poems in Nancy Campbell's first collection transport the reader to the frozen shores of Greenland. The Arctic has long been a place of encounters, and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and missionaries, scientists and shamans. We hear the... -
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $27.28$17.98April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . .Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern... -
Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan 9780571362288
RRP: $27.28$17.98Hannah 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...