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Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Alice Walker 9780753819616
RRP: £12.99£8.60The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.'I am the womanoffering two flowerswhose roots are twin.Justice and HopeHope and JusticeLet us begin'Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she... -
Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems John Agard 9781852248239
RRP: £12.00£8.00John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. "Alternative Anthem" is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, including... -
Lipstick by Maggie Butt 9781871551945
RRP: £7.99£7.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551945Author Maggie ButtFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
RRP: £12.99£8.56Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the... -
Wound is the Origin of Wonder Maya C. Popa 9781035017386
RRP: £10.99£7.77I can't undo all I have done to myself,what I have let an appetite for love do to me.I have wanted all the world, its beautiesand its injuries; some days,I think that is punishment enough.Maya C. Popa's poems explore the capacity of wonder to reawaken... -
Customs by Solmaz Sharif
RRP: £9.99£6.70Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A New Yorker Essential Read of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 An NPR Best Book of 2022 A Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry... -
Hundred Thousand Places by Thomas A. Clark
RRP: £9.95£6.97To walk through a landscape is to be part of a slow unfolding of time and distance, to commit yourself to an adventure. "The Hundred Thousand Places" is a single poem that travels across seasons, through a variety of Scottish highland and island... -
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 Sussex Alphabet by Eleanor Farjeon 9781906022198
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906022198Author Eleanor FarjeonFormat PaperbackImprint Snake River Press LtdPublisher Snake River Press Ltd -
Book of Days by Phoebe Power 9781800171787
RRP: £11.99£8.29Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Animated by song and conversation, the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way,... -
50 Barn Poems by Zac Smith 9781944866600
RRP: £13.99£9.52Consisting of fifty barn poems, 50 Barn Poems is an evocative yet accessible sketch of that old barn that haunts the back of your brain. Vague memories of road trips, skateboarding, the ocean, and ping-pong are all reconstructed in the shape of a barn... -
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... -
DARKNESS BETWEEN STARS by John F. Deane
RRP: £18.00£14.91In setting the poets side by side, this volume also highlights the two main faith traditions of the West: Deane with his Roman Catholic background, rooted in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur with his Protestant (Church of Ireland and Quaker) heritage,... -
My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian by Kim Kierkegaardashian 9781982100988
RRP: £17.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982100988Author Kim KierkegaardashianFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 185mm *... -
Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780571382927
RRP: £12.99£8.56A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.Silver is a collection that shines with a guiding principle, that poetry: 'part physics, part faith, part void', can be found wherever it is looked for. Virtuosic in... -
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson 9780571310913
RRP: £12.99£8.56This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical... -
The Happy Birthday of Death Gregory Corso 9780811200271
RRP: £10.99£9.37It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever... -
Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £20.00£14.29Pinpointing the virtues of such items as soap and a tomato, this selection fr the Nobel Prizes-winning poet contains twenty-five of his odes, each accompanied by an English translation and two pencil drawings.Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in... -
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations... -
Rythmes Pittoresques by Marie Krysinksa 9780859897112
RRP: £20.00£17.62The poems in Rythmes pittoresques, first published in 1890, present not only a poet searching for a voice, but also a female poet searching for a voice while breaking down rules of both versification and gender-determined source of expression. They went... -
This is How the Change Begins Nicola Davies 9781913634247
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913634247Author Nicola DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
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... -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems (Collins Classics) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Instead of the cross, the AlbatrossAbout my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner... -
Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan 9780984459872
RRP: £12.99£8.63These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures... -
One Lark, One Horse by Michael Hofmann 9780571342297
RRP: £14.99£10.95Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century', TLS - is all the more impressive for his... -
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition by Dylan Thomas 9780811218818
RRP: £12.99£9.96The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was... -
The Bridge by Hart Crane 9780871402257
RRP: £14.50£11.73Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge,... -
Poems: The Best of Steve Turner by Steve Turner 9780745948027
RRP: £8.99£7.81This thematic selection of the best of the material produced by the performance poet since the mid-1970s is designed to appeal to a broad range of readers of all ages. Some of the subjects are serious, such as love and death, and some are more ephemeral,... -
West-Eastern Divan by Johanne Wolfgangs Von Goethe
RRP: £16.99£12.94In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian... -
Byron's Poetry and Prose by Lord George Gordon Byron
£16.58"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James... -
The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
RRP: £9.99£6.99When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen... -
The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in Its Own Right by Simon Armitage 9781906613303
RRP: £5.00£3.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613303Author Simon ArmitagePage Count 24Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 50g -
The Divine Comedy: I. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £18.49£13.97An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: £26.99£23.44Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life... -
Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems by James Joyce
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486850757Author James JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Scotland by Edwin Morgan 9781846975448
RRP: £5.00£4.35Introduced by Liz Lochhead, in this selection we journey round Scotland in 'Canedolia', study its history in 'Picts', home in on Morgan's own city of Glasgow in 'Glasgow Sonnet v', imagine the country's future in 'The Coin'.About the AuthorEdwin Morgan... -
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £10.99£8.51New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat - a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths." ... -
The Apricot Memoirs by Tess Guinery
RRP: £11.99£7.59This romantic fusion of art-poetry, prose, and unbridled creativity-was birthed from one soul's season of adventure and unraveling, inviting us to surrender the great for the greater.What started as a break from Australian artist Tess Guinery's rapidly... -
The Complete Poems by William Empson
RRP: £20.00£14.29Empson 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... -
The Aeneid Virgil 9781857150858
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Aeneid is a journey of Aeneas, a survivor of the siege of Troy. The themes within this classic work include piety, respect, destiny, war and peace. The city of Rome and its empire, its formation, and its history is a central character among others -...