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The Complete Poems by John Keats
RRP: $25.33$17.73Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats's first volume of poems, published... -
Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: $48.75$32.90A calming collection of nature poems to help you relax and unwind at the end of every day. Now more than ever we're all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by... -
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
RRP: $19.48$13.86Showcasing the creative power of one of the most outstanding English Metaphysical Poets, the Penguin Classics edition of John Donne's Selected Poems includes an introduction and notes by Ilona Bell.Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical... -
the witch doesn't burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace 9781449489427
RRP: $19.48$12.502016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn't burn in this one - the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and... -
The Universe of Us by Lang Leav 9781449480127
RRP: $25.33$15.95International best-selling author of Love & Misadventure, Lullabies (Goodreads Readers Choice Award), and Memories, Lang Leav presents a completely new collection of poetry with a celestial theme in The Universe of Us. Planets, stars, and constellations... -
The Hate Poems by John Tottenham 9781878923295
RRP: $28.28$18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923295Author John TottenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S. -
Hold Your Own by Kate Tempest
RRP: $23.38$15.89Hold Your Own, Kae Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet;... -
North by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $25.33$16.69In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the... -
Poems And Prophecies by William Blake 9781857150346
RRP: $33.13$24.73This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other... -
In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith 9781846976605
RRP: $23.40$15.50What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love - themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar,... -
Family Values by Wendy Cope
RRP: $21.43$14.27From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging... -
the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace
RRP: $23.38$14.80Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third and final installment in her "women are some kind of magic" series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780141187013
RRP: $17.53$12.58A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.First published in the 1920's,... -
The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
RRP: $39.00$26.33The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and... -
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le 9781805300762
RRP: $25.33$16.69An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this... -
"Love's Labours Lost" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $17.53$15.58'With the publication of Woudhuysen's Arden 3 edition, the magisterial study of the play that will energise a new generation of readers and directors has now arrived.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare SurveyThe latest Arden... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: $21.43$15.15The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
Poetry Please: The Seasons by Various Poets
RRP: $21.43$14.27This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of... -
The Tain: From the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Louis Le Brocquy
RRP: $21.43$15.54The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their... -
The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary by Charlie Eccleshare
RRP: $19.48$11.62Roma have risen from their ruins!Manolas, the Greek God in Rome!The unthinkable unfolds before our eyes.This was not meant to happen, this could not happen . . . this is happening!Peter DruryIf football is the beautiful game, then commentators are its... -
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth 9780140424423
RRP: $17.53$12.58One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life,... -
Girls that Never Die by Safia Elhillo 9781526665546
RRP: $19.48$13.40'Incredibly moving ... Every single poem is stellar' Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger ____________________________________________ In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood... -
Carnac by Eugene Guillevic 9781852243937
RRP: $23.40$16.46One of France's most important modern poets, Eugene Guillevic (1907-97) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never learned the Breton language, his personality is deeply marked by his feeling of oneness with his homeland. His poetry has a... -
School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson 9780571383511
RRP: $25.33$16.69In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in... -
Gmorning, Gnight!: Daily mindfulness from the creator of Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
RRP: $29.23$19.11~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ From the creator of Hamilton: The Musical and star of His Dark Materials, this beautifully illustrated book of pep talks will inspire you at the beginning and end of each day."When the world is bringing you down, Gmorning,... -
Soho by Richard Scott
RRP: $25.33$16.69SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZEIn this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising... -
I Bet I Can Make You Laugh: Poems by Joshua Seigal and Friends: Winner of the Laugh Out Loud Awards by Joshua Seigal
RRP: $13.63$10.00WINNER OF THE 2020 LAUGH OUT LOUD AWARDS Packed full of stupendously silly, fantastically funny and hysterically hilarious poems, this brilliant anthology is edited by dynamic poet, Joshua Seigal. Featuring a diverse range of contributors and some... -
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Basho
RRP: $15.58$11.29Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world -... -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
RRP: $25.33$17.73'A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow... -
Clare: Everyman's Poetry by John Clare
RRP: $11.68$8.58John Clares verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound understanding of nature and of his contemporary rural society.* Introduction by leading academic or author notes:... -
Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith by William Blake
RRP: $17.53$12.58'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake ... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William, of Chartres 9781604336153
$32.19The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets!In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... -
The Waste Land Facsimile by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $48.75$34.30When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had... -
Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
RRP: $23.38$16.44With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his... -
Butterfly Valley by Sherko Bekas
RRP: $21.43$14.90The late 1980s witnessed two devastating chemical attacks by the Saddam regime on Iraqi Kurdistan. The first of these, in 1988, known as the Anfal campaign, saw the destruction of 3000 Kurdish villages, over 40 chemical attacks launched, and 100,000... -
The Iliad by Homer
RRP: $25.33$17.73A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin... -
Whispers and Breath of the Meadows by Razmik Davoyan 9781904614470
RRP: $21.43$14.90Armenia's most significant contemporary poet, Razmik Davoyan is one of a handful of names in Armenian literature which define not only an era, but go much further to embody an entire history. Davoyan's work reflects the experiences of an old nation, yet... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: $19.48$13.86Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9781847496119
RRP: $17.53$12.58Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been... -
Lord Byron - The Major Works by Lord George Gordon Byron
RRP: $27.28$19.79This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important...