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The Great Cat by Emily Fragos
RRP: £12.00£8.44The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to... -
Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines by Nat Raha 9781911343479
RRP: £11.99£8.29of sirens, body & faultlines is a book of prophecy against this Brexit era, rising from a post-2008 London, where crisis and austerity meet the vanity projects of the super-rich. Committed to the immediacy of a present that is precarious and under... -
Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
RRP: £10.99£7.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020 WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS' POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE "Whip-smart, sonically... -
Naked and Other Screenplays by Mike Leigh 9780571173860
RRP: £16.99£12.18Three screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.About... -
War of the Beasts and the Animals by Maria Stepanova
RRP: £12.00£8.00War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova's first full English-language collection. Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers, and founding editor of Colta.ru, an online independent site which... -
Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £6.99£5.00American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199669103
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a... -
The Epic of Ram: Volume 7 by Tulsidas
RRP: £29.95£23.66The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a... -
Orpheus: A Version of Raine Maria Rilke by Don Paterson
RRP: £12.99£8.56Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great work.About the AuthorDon Paterson... -
Achilleid by Publius Papinius Statius 9781624664069
RRP: £11.99£9.77"One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative, which encompasses a brutish childhood, an... -
One More Before Goodbye by R H Sin 9780578820330
RRP: £5.99£4.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578820330Author R H SinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint R.H. SinPublisher R.H. SinWeight(grams) 127g -
The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan 9780571302451 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.58These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, Riordan's... -
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller 9780807121283
RRP: £16.95£12.91In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by... -
The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah
RRP: £9.99£6.70'No poet in Scotland now can take as his inspiration the folk impulse that created the ballads, the people's songs, the legends of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie,' proposed Edwin Muir. Yet many of the poems in Mick Imlah's new collection do take the most... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III by R. H. Sin
RRP: £12.99£8.18Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III! His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series. r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey,... -
The Christmas Wren by Gillian Clarke 9781907598265
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598265Author Gillian ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 3mm -
Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Derek Pearsall 9780859897846
RRP: £17.59£16.55William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary... -
After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou
RRP: £9.99£6.99A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's... -
Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray
RRP: £9.95£6.97Not only the migrating birds speak in "Translations from the Natural World". The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find... -
The Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£8.56'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday TimesAfter more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his... -
Ivor Gurney: Selected Poems by Ivor Gurney 9780192880659
RRP: £9.99£6.99Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) now takes a place among the English poets. His range is wide, including the First World War, in which he served as an infantry private, the passionate celebration of his native Gloucestershire, and fears of the mental imbalance... -
The Farewell Glacier by Nick Drake
RRP: £9.95£6.78The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was... -
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £6.99£5.13WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a... -
Don't Mention the Children by Michael Rosen 9780993149023
RRP: £8.95£6.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993149023Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
A Beautiful Composition of Broken by R. H. Sin
RRP: £14.99£9.36A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood,... -
John Keats by John Keats 9780571328765
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... -
Much With Body by Polly Atkin 9781781726457
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726457Author Polly AtkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray
RRP: £12.00£8.00The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees, ten dream pattern poems and thirty-five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen of Scots. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth,... -
Selected Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £10.99£7.77Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: £10.99£7.40For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether... -
Pamper Me to Hell & Back: Laureate's Choice 2018 by Hera Lindsay Bird
RRP: £7.50£5.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367841Author Hera Lindsay BirdFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania by Jerome Rothenberg 9780520290723
RRP: £30.00£26.35Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the... -
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Skinner Cook 9781449487560
RRP: £9.99£6.41A poet, journalist, and activist, Alicia Cook offers a soundtrack of survival. Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects... -
A Woman without a Country by Eavan Boland
RRP: £9.95£6.97The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from... -
Child Ballad by David Wheatley 9781800173552
RRP: £12.99£8.94A Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation 2023. A Sunday Times Book of the Year. In Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of... -
Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho by Basho
RRP: £14.99£10.92This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Basho:... -
Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life by Michelangelo
RRP: £12.99£9.09Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense... -
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver 9780571359905
RRP: £10.99£7.32FROM 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... -
Chick by Hannah Lowe
RRP: £10.99£7.40Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its...