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An Essay on Man, The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope 9781420970524
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970524Author Alexander PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Restoration Literature: An Anthology by Paul Hammond 9780199555192
RRP: £11.99£8.64When our great monarch into exile went, Wit and religion suffered banishment... At length the Muses stand restored again To that great charge which Nature did ordain. In these lines Dryden represents the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 as the... -
The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas by Jackie Tasioulas
RRP: £25.00£16.99The poetry of the Makars marked an extraordinary flowering of Scottish culture and the Scots language in the 15th and early 16th centuries. This magnificent anthology, introduced, edited and annotated by J.A. Tasioulas, makes available for the modern... -
Collected Plays: Volume 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £20.99£20.87`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through... -
Iliad by Homer 9780872203525
RRP: £16.99£16.71"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his... -
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw 9780571284559
RRP: £9.99£6.70Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award.When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title... -
Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud 9781857157086
RRP: £10.99£7.77Burnt-out at twenty-three, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse in his few years of activity. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several... -
Hat-Stand Union by Caroline Bird 9781847771643
RRP: £9.95£6.97Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Adrift in a surreal world of the everyday, Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets, purchase mail-order tears, sing love-songs to hat-stands... -
Wilson's Ornithology and Burds in Scots by Hamish MacDonald
RRP: £9.99£6.99'The crossbill is a bonny bird An she sings wi a guid Scots tongue Jip-jip-jip A'll gie ye gip Gin ye meddle wi me nor ma young' As a result of his travels across the North American continent in the eighteenth century Alexander Wilson... -
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: £22.00£17.36Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that... -
What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: £12.99£11.46An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation "This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan's poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching... -
Growing into God by Edwina Gateley 9781580510806
RRP: £7.99£7.11Growing into God is a personal and poignant new collection of poetry. Tapping into the deep spiritual life inside all of us, and drawing upon her growing understanding of God in our insecure and fast-moving world, Gateley travels the spiritual path from... -
A Village Life by Louise Gluck 9781847770592
RRP: £9.95£6.97From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time... -
From Our Own Fire by William Letford 9781800173439
RRP: £14.99£11.35A The Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year. This prose and poetry tour de force of storytelling has the narrative punch of a novel. It is a new departure for the poet, and for poetry itself. It takes the reader into the not-too-distant future: an... -
Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints by Mary Clayton
RRP: £29.95£23.66Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great inventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In different... -
Nude as Retrospect by Alex Marlow 9781739265236
RRP: £8.00£5.70Debut poetry pamphlet by Alex Marlow, a British poet and actor from Lancashire. His work has appeared in the Rialto, The London Magazine, Ambit, fourteen poems, and Impossible Archetype. He is a 2022 beneficiary of The Fenton Arts Trust.Book... -
Out of the Ashes by Frieda Hughes
RRP: £12.00£8.00Frieda Hughes's fable-like poems draw on her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, a lifelong engagement with nature and itinerant wildlife, and later experiences when living in Australia, London, and most recently, Wales. They cast light on two worlds,... -
On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of Gregory Nazianzen by Peter Gilbert 9780881412208
RRP: £12.99£9.09St Gregory's poetry is open and self-revealing and has personal character. In these poems he speaks of the joys and frustrations of his own life; he reveals his inner questioning about the purpose and value of life in the face of sin and mortality; and... -
From Darkness Into Light by A Helwa 9781957415031
RRP: £12.99£9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957415031Author A HelwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Naulit Inc.Publisher Naulit Inc.Weight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm -
Dunce by Mary Ruefle
RRP: £12.99£8.63FINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has... -
I Will Not Fold These Maps by Mona Kareem
RRP: £9.00£6.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894832Author Mona KareemFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Songs Of Kabir by Kabir
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173794Author KabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 200mm... -
Isn't Forever by Amy Key
RRP: £10.99£7.40Amy Key's Isn't Forever is a spell book for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy, elusive and unrequited. The poems in this book are obsessive in their desire to construct and breach the terms of their own intimacy. The poems have... -
The Years by Jamie McKendrick
RRP: £8.00£5.70With a number of highly-acclaimed poetry collections to his name, this well-known poet has produced a chapbook of enigmatic and beautifully-crafted poems, each of which is accompanied by an illustration by the poet who reveals himself as an accomplished... -
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
RRP: £12.99£8.56In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime... -
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker
RRP: £30.00£23.69'The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes,' Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry... -
Solitude by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: £10.99£7.77A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and despair, reflections on mind and soul, and meditations... -
As Far as I Know by Roger McGough
RRP: £8.99£6.45Take comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger McGough's new book of poems shows him writing as fluently and inventively as ever. There... -
Selected Poems of Mick Imlah by Mick Imlah
RRP: £12.99£8.56Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length... -
The Threadbare Coat: Selected Poems by Thomas A. Clark
RRP: £12.99£8.94Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. This Selected Poems celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer - a vivid minimalist, ruralist and... -
Collected Poems 1946-1996 by David Shoemaker 9780997668667
RRP: £7.41£6.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997668667Author David ShoemakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Temple of the Silver StarPublisher Temple of the Silver StarWeight(grams) 195g -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: £20.00£15.89An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose... -
Tormentil by Ian Humphreys 9781913437787
RRP: £10.99£7.64'I can't face the big stuff so I comb the moors for a tiny yellow flower' - so begins Tormentil, the second poetry collection by Ian Humphreys. Set largely in the starkly beautiful West Yorkshire moorlands, these poems creep and bloom across geographies... -
New and Selected Poems: Ruth Bidgood by Ruth Bidgood 9781854113771
£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113771Author Ruth BidgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After by Vera Brittain
RRP: £10.99£6.47This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiance, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £8.99£6.45Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit... -
bandit country by James Conor Patterson
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T.S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZEbandit country, the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson, is a rollicking, hyper-literate and at times deeply... -
Passion by Jude Morgan
RRP: £9.99£6.80Jude Morgan brings the world of Keats, Byron and Shelley to life in a stunning novel of supercharged emotion, individualism, violence and sensuality.They were the Romantic generation, famous and infamous, and in their short, extraordinary lives, they... -
Poems Of Friendship by Peter Washington 9781857157192
RRP: £12.00£8.44There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion, the present selection draws on the literature of many periods... -
The Return: Selected Poems by Myfanwy Haycock 9781914595882
RRP: £10.00£7.12Myfanwy Haycock (1913-1963) mapped out a career as one of Wales's most talented female poets during the mid-twentieth century and was dubbed as 'Gwent's second voice' at the age of nineteen. A skilled illustrator, journalist and broadcaster, Haycock...