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Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9780140390643
$21.86Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than... -
81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
RRP: $21.43$14.27All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering... -
The Haiku Anthology by Cor van den Heuvel 9780393321180
RRP: $25.33$22.35Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern... -
Ovid Metamorphoses by R. J. Tarrant
$56.12An Oxford Classical texts edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses has been planned for nearly a century, but earlier efforts by D. A. Slater and Franco Munari were not completed, largely because of the size and complexity of the manuscript tradition. Building on... -
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition by Pier Paolo Pasolini 9780226325446
RRP: $46.80$40.01Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works-Arabian Nights, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales among them. What most people are not aware of is that he was... -
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: $27.30$22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959012Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Ariel Poems: Illustrated poems for Christmas by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $29.23$19.11A cherished part of his oeuvre, the 'Ariel Poems' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. ('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series,... -
Petrarch's Canzoniere: Scattered Rhymes; A New Verse Translation by Peter Thornton
RRP: $39.00$26.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909954335Author Peter ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Barbican PressPublisher Barbican Press -
English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology by Paul Negri 9780486404257
$9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404257Author Paul NegriFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)... -
John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose by John Clare
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life.Reviews`This is a good looking book, nicely presented in a clear readable type,... -
Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton by Brian Russell Graham 9781032379197
RRP: $38.98$34.50Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters... -
Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $25.33$16.69WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New... -
A Recipe for Water Gillian Clarke 9781857549881
RRP: $19.40$13.59The drop of water on the tongue, writes Gillian Clarke, 'was the first word in the world', and the language of water is the element in which these poems live. Ocean currents create histories and cultures - the port cities of Cardiff and Mumbai; myths are... -
Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda 9780374529604
RRP: $48.75$35.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529604Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1040Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition by Victor Hugo
RRP: $54.60$54.19Though known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Miserables, Victor Hugo was primarily a poet - one of the most important and prolific in French history, Illustrated with Hugo's own paintings and graphic work, this lucid, award-winning... -
Poems, Stories and Writings by Margaret Tait 9781800173798
RRP: $29.23$21.00Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. 'In a documentary', she wrote, real things 'lose their reality... and there's no poetry in that. In poetry, something else happens.' If film, for Tait,... -
Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word by Marc Smith
RRP: $23.38$19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402218996Author Marc SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm... -
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez by Robert Bly 9780061138843
RRP: $37.03$26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061138843Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins
RRP: $25.33$17.73However arresting, outlandish, or hilarious, the poems in Horoscopes for the Dead are typically prompted by the familiar things of the world: dogs, stars, food, love, and marriage as well as life's local triumphs and disappointments, joys and shames... -
Dunce by Mary Ruefle
RRP: $25.33$16.83FINALIST 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... -
Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell
RRP: $29.23$19.70In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorialising the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict... -
Maggot by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $19.48$13.07In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a... -
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292864
RRP: $25.33$19.79In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the... -
Selected Poems of Christopher Logue by Christopher Logue
RRP: $21.43$14.27The arrangement of these Selected Poems demonstrates the consistency of Christopher Logue's vision as it matured through a varied career. He published his first books in the early 1950s, in Paris, where he was associated with Alexander Trocchi, Samuel... -
Tree Light by Yvonne Baker
RRP: $9.73$7.31From its tentative first word ('perhaps') to the final phrase, realising 'here is no journey / only attending to stones- / like a story told yet again / by an old friend', the reader is immersed in a woodland that is alive with quiet yet profound... -
The Noise of a Fly by Douglas Dunn
RRP: $21.43$14.27Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and... -
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by John J. L. Mood
RRP: $23.38$17.36Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections... -
New And Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver 9780807068861
RRP: $46.80$30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2005 and Quill Awards (Poetry) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780807068861Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Strikingly Invisible by Henry Normal 9781916147935
RRP: $19.50$16.09An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal... Written between October 2018 and July 2019, these poems are concerned with the nature of change, identity, worth, and other abstract... -
Everyone Knows I am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan
RRP: $17.53$12.58Shivanee Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the... -
Voices in the Distance Louis Simpson 9781852248611
RRP: $19.40$13.22Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in 1923 in Jamaica, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother, he emigrated to America at the age of 17. Voices... -
Up Late by Nick Laird 9780571378685
RRP: $25.33$16.69Nick Laird's powerful new collection reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems and the banalities and distortions of modern life, the poet confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness,... -
The Rupture Tense: Poems by Jenny Xie
RRP: $33.15$18.93Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks... -
Compact Wales: Shepherd War Poet, The by Hedd Wyn
RRP: $13.55$12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845275945Author Hedd WynFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch -
Sunken Heights by Elias Rønnenfelt
RRP: $48.75$33.75Debut book of poetry from musician Elias B. Ronnenfelt Presented in both the original Danish text and Ronnenfelt's own English translation, Sunken Heights balances the poet's reflections on the aggressive and primal present with strikingly romantic and... -
Space Between the Stones: Poetry and Practices for Connecting with Nature, Spirit, and Creativity by Mária Kersey 9780578675190
RRP: $33.05$25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578675190Author Maria KerseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Our Nature ConnectionPublisher Our Nature ConnectionWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: $15.58$11.29Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of `he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and... -
Grandma's Attic: Mom's HDB, My Wallpaper by Heng Siok Tian 9789811806124
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this her sixth collection of poetry where the real, virtual and literary mix, Heng Siok Tian travels through landscapes and explores relationships of family, friendships, the familiar and the foreign. With her signature simplicity and honesty, she... -
Zonal by Don Paterson
RRP: $21.43$13.88Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue... -
A Self Help Guide to Being In Love with Jeremy Corbyn by Jess Green
$30.17When Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philarmonic pub. Since then she's stuck by them through the downfall of Tony Blair, the disappointment of Gordon Brown and the...