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Beauty and Bands: Finding Beauty Among the Ashes by Henrietta Wisbey 9781400325931
£9.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400325931Author Henrietta WisbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint ELM HillPublisher ELM HillWeight(grams) 181g -
Still Possible by David Whyte
RRP: £18.00£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932887556Author David WhytePage Count 156Imprint Many Rivers PressPublisher Many Rivers PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 176mm * 113mm * 12mm -
A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman by Olga Livshin 9780999073735
RRP: £15.00£9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999073735Author Olga LivshinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Poets and Traitors Inc.Publisher Poets and Traitors Inc.Weight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: £25.00£17.73The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling volumes on Sassoon from his biographer and foremost scholar,... -
Hardly War by Don Mee Choi 9781940696218
RRP: £12.99£8.63Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore... -
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong by Ho Xuan Huong 9781556591488
RRP: £18.00£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591488Author Ho Xuan HuongFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: £27.00£26.47Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck 9780374534097
RRP: £22.00£16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534097Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Considering the Women Choman Hardi 9781780372785
RRP: £9.95£6.78Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society and... -
Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781784103361
RRP: £9.99£6.99Second Place winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf... -
West End Final by Hugo Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.70Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it. Childhood and school... -
Made Flesh by Mr Craig Arnold 9781931337427
RRP: £17.00£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Utah Book Award (Poetry) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781931337427Author Craig ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable... -
My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £29.95£23.66Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book (Secretum)... -
The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer
RRP: £17.00£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525743Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
In Nearby Bushes by Kei Miller 9781784108458
RRP: £9.99£6.99Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2020. Longlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet - the placeless place... -
Trip Trap by Jack Kerouac 9780912516042
RRP: £9.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912516042Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Grey Fox PressPublisher Grey Fox PressWeight(grams) 114g -
Selected Poems Anna Andreevna Akhmatova 9781852240639
RRP: £20.00£13.35This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero. Akhmatova published her first book of poems... -
Trilogy by H. D. 9781857543162
RRP: £12.95£8.91As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II), Trilogys three long poems rank with T. S. Eliots Four Quartets and Ezra Pounds Pisan Cantos. The first book of the Trilogy, published in the midst of the "fifty thousand... -
Selected Poems Thomas Lux 9781780371153
RRP: £12.00£8.00After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.' The later Lux... -
Salad Anniversary by Machi Tawara
RRP: £9.99£6.70This internationally bestselling book took the world by storm on its publication. Covering the discovery of new love, first heartache and the end of an affair, these poems mix the ancient grace and musicality of the tanka form with a modern insight and... -
William Cowper by William Cowper 9780460879910
RRP: £5.99£4.40A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael BruceAbout the AuthorWilliam Cowper (1731-1800) started righting poetry whilst studying law in the 1760's. Following a very public deterioration in his health he retired to the countryside,... -
Kindertotenwald by Franz Wright 9780375711954
RRP: £18.99£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711954Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen 9781555976569
RRP: £13.99£8.57In Urban Tumbleweed Harryette Mullen, a critically acclaimed poet and winner of the GBP50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize, explores the space where both the city and natural world collide. Offering a stark and original commentary on the Los Angeles landscape,... -
I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems by Sabrina Benaim
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185872Author Sabrina BenaimFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border by James Conor Patterson
RRP: £19.99£14.28The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, composed of non-fiction, fiction and poetry - it is a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writers, that conveys in its multiplicity the true meaning of our... -
Sleep And Dreams by Peter Washington
RRP: £10.99£7.77Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams... -
The Hotel Eden by Beverley Bie Brahic 9781784106102
RRP: £9.99£6.99'Madame Martin will throw back her shutters at eight...' With these words Beverley Bie Brahic opens The Hotel Eden, a book about seeing the world. She moves through - Paris, the French provinces, the American west coast - in the spirit of a flaneur,... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek... -
Strange Fruit by Kamau Brathwaite 9781845233082
RRP: £12.99£8.94Strange Fruit is the latest poetry collection by experimental Caribbean poet and theorist Kamau Brathwaite.Book InformationISBN 9781845233082Author Kamau BrathwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press... -
The Butterfly Collection by Richard Harrington 9781908241566
RRP: £20.00£14.29Britain's much-revered and studied butterflies are, besides being very beautiful, a fascinating group of insects each with an intricate life story. The aim of this enchanting collection of poetry penned by respected insect ecologist - and as revealed... -
Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum: Text, Translation, and Commentary by David West 9780198721659
RRP: £63.00£51.56The aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the 'Roman odes' in praise of Augustus, the... -
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: First and Fifth Editions by Edward FitzGerald 9780486264677 [USED COPY]
RRP: £2.99£1.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264677Author Edward FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: First and Fifth Editions by Edward FitzGerald 9780486264677
RRP: £2.99£2.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264677Author Edward FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Elegies of Chu by Nicholas Williams 9780198818311
RRP: £12.99£9.09Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic... -
Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray
RRP: £9.95£6.97Not only the migrating birds speak in "Translations from the Natural World". The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find... -
New Collected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
RRP: £18.95£13.36Does history tell stories? Yes, if the poet listens carefully. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created an abidingly popular body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental... -
The Complete Poems of John Keats John Keats 9780679601081
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601081Author John KeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson 9781800173279
RRP: £12.99£8.94When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self-examining, sometimes funny and often... -
Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid
RRP: £14.99£9.53In Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in... -
Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore 9781784107116
RRP: £9.99£6.99Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Shortlisted for the 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward (Felix Dennis)...