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Averno by Louise Gluck 9781857548372
RRP: £9.95£6.97Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world... -
New Names for Lost Things by Noor Unnahar
RRP: £9.99£6.41A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artistAn all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon, New Names for Lost Things combines Noor Unnahar's powerful... -
The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz 9780140196238
RRP: £11.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140196238Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm)... -
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
RRP: £12.99£11.78'A triumph ... A wholly original and creative mind' NEW YORK TIMES 'A multi-genre phenomena, it's a triumph of a creative mind' GLAMOUR 'Frightens and astonishes ... Combines Maya Angelou's passion and Sylvia Plath's devastating self-inquisition'... -
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick 9780571215324
RRP: £10.99£7.32The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new... -
Sparks by James Low 9780956923943
£21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956923943Author James LowFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Simply BeingPublisher Simply BeingWeight(grams) 540g -
A Two-Part Invention Elizabeth Garrett 9781852244620
RRP: £6.95£4.98The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an interplay of the reader's imagination and the poet's... -
Poems for the Funeral Celebrant: Turning Tears of Grief Into Tears of Joy by Richard a Phipps 9781532647666
RRP: £14.00£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532647666Author Richard a PhippsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Travel Light Travel Dark John Agard 9781852249915
RRP: £9.95£6.78John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, Agard casts his unique spin on the... -
Concrete Sea by E A Griffiths
RRP: £4.99£3.75The willingness to take risks with form and to push the reader's expectations of what a poem might be make E A Griffiths' poetry immediately distinctive. Here we find lyrical poems that are tiny, elliptical, often heart-breaking and utterly located in a... -
Photopoetry 1845-2015: A Critical History by Dr Michael Nott
£29.47From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Photopoetry... -
Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra 9781913437749
RRP: £10.99£7.64Velvel's Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a... -
The Escape Plan by Henry Normal 9781916147942
RRP: £16.95£14.08The Escape Plan includes all of the poems from Henry Normal's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 shows, together with the most popular poems from each of his previous collections. "Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times ... -
A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu
RRP: £9.99£7.11AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu. In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and intellectual curiosity, Nwulu melds the golden light of... -
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... -
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass Harry Clifton 9781852249359
RRP: £9.95£6.78At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together,... -
Balancing Acts: Conversations with Gerald Dawe on a Life in Poetry by Gerald Dawe
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558167Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers 9780804741088
RRP: £35.00£31.74In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers-in spite of the almost total academic... -
Fuse: New and Selected Work by Patrick Jones 9781913640422
RRP: £10.00£7.12These are hymns and elegies; protest songs and battle cries as Jones speaks to and for the disaffected: 'We are the tapestry / The crackling cracks of modernity / Dislocated desperations stitched together / By the disparate verses of our skin / I write... -
Prophet by K. Gibran
RRP: £16.00£9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394404288Author Kahlil GibranFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: £33.99£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437609300Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 467g -
Alice and the North by Anne Caldwell
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436521Author Anne CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
Play the Piano by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £8.99£6.02Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.Book InformationISBN 9780876854372Author Charles... -
Nay Rather: The Cahier Series 21 by Anne Carson 9781909631038
RRP: £14.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631038Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
The Canterbury Tales (No Fear): Volume 1 SparkNotes 9781411426962
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411426962Author SparkNotesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Barnes & Noble BooksPublisher Sterling Juvenile -
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £25.00£19.59One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As... -
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... -
James Merrill Poems James Merrill 9781841598086
RRP: £9.99£7.11James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving,... -
Berryman's Sonnets by John Berryman 9780374534547
RRP: £16.00£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534547Author John BerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Fallen by Raine Scott 9781804395592
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804395592Author Raine ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Bantam by Jackie Kay
RRP: £12.99£9.09Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to show us... -
Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition by David Ferry
£11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530310Author David FerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Poems by Emily Bronte 9781857157284
RRP: £12.00£8.44* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine * Full-cloth, flexible covers * Sewn bindings *... -
Fivemiletown by Tom Paulin
RRP: £8.99£6.08A reissue of Paulin's "corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion" from the 1980s.About the AuthorTom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has... -
The Erotic Poems by Ovid
RRP: £12.99£9.09This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna,... -
House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and... -
What Kind of Woman?: Poems by Kate Baer
RRP: £26.99£18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063087330Author Kate BaerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint HarperPublisher Harper -
Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
RRP: £9.99£6.70WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2020 Music for the Dead and Resurrected captures the complexity of living in the shadows of imperial force, of the vulnerability of bodies, of seeing with more than the... -
The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott
RRP: £11.99£8.29A The Telegraph Book of the Year. Laura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees,... -
Wait Till I'm Dead: Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were...