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Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9781847496119
RRP: $11.60$8.32Describing 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: $18.05$13.09This 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... -
Collected Poems, Volume Three by Henry Normal 9781739623111
RRP: $23.16$18.74Includes all the poems from Henry's collections Strikingly Invisible, The Beauty Within Shadow and The Distance Between Clouds, and features many of the poems from his award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, 'A Normal...'.About the AuthorHenry Normal is a... -
Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore 9781800173880
RRP: $15.47$10.69A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. 'Trees crawling with babies, babies darting through the sky or buoyed by thermal vents, babies painted with false eyes' ('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is... -
Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPESTIn her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.These... -
Too Black, Too Strong by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $14.18$9.98Too Black Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems like 'Chant of a Homesick Nigga' and 'Kill Them Before Ramadan', he shows... -
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $3.87$3.21'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the... -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems (Collins Classics) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Instead of the cross, the AlbatrossAbout my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner... -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: $16.76$15.93This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and... -
Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: $16.76$11.73In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the... -
Brand New Ancients by Kate Tempest
RRP: $12.89$9.11Kae Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; their dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of... -
The Faber Book of Beasts by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $14.18$9.44'The Faber Book of Beasts is a generous and intelligent round- up of old favourites, new juxtapositions, and poems we mightn't know about ... Will set heads shaking, as well as nodding with pleasure.' Independent William Wordsworth's 'To a Skylark'W.B... -
Let Them Eat Chaos: Mercury Prize Shortlisted by Kate Tempest
RRP: $15.47$10.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MERCURY MUSIC PRIZELet Them Eat Chaos, Kae Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the... -
Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
RRP: $6.44$4.62William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the 'Lake Poets'. Yet he was also one of the founders of English Romanticism, a writer whose early revolutionary fervor imbued his verse and his ideals.Much of Wordsworth's work was inspired by nature,... -
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
RRP: $19.34$14.13Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he... -
Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection by Pam Ayres
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'.This... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $11.60$8.41This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text... -
Field Work by Seamus Heaney 9780571114337
RRP: $14.18$9.44At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to... -
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 9781449496364
RRP: $19.34$12.07A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the... -
Selected Poetry of John Clare by John Clare
RRP: $19.34$12.64This is the first selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love... -
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert's Poems Through Lent by Mark Oakley
RRP: $14.18$10.02George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems... -
Where Hope Comes From: Healing poetry for the heart, mind and soul by Nikita Gill
RRP: $19.34$12.02'Absolutely beautiful and soul-enhancing poems' Matt HaigWritten against the backdrop of global crisis, Nikita Gill's new collection Where Hope Comes From shines a light into the darkness as we begin our journey back to hope. Weaving words that explore... -
How to be a Bomb by Andy Fletcher 9781903110300
RRP: $11.55$6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110300Author Andy FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 185g -
The Masnavi, Book One by Jalal al-Din Rumi
RRP: $11.60$8.32'The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate - Love's nature only love can demonstrate.' Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written,... -
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $11.60$8.32Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in... -
Kit by Megan Barker
RRP: $16.76$11.20'raw as well as wrought ... a novel of spaces and gaps ... like life poured into art' - Anthony Cummins, The Observer 'In both its open-throated exclamations and its concentrated meditations on myriad forms of pain and joy [...] Kit reaches places... -
Bad Diaspora Poems: ‘A once in a generation poet’ Caleb Femi by Momtaza Mehri 9781787334373
RRP: $19.34$14.13Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt.***WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION******A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Exceptional... Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first... -
Like a Tree Walking by Vahni Capildeo 9781800171954
RRP: $15.47$10.69Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice 2021 Vahni Capildeo's Like a Tree, Walking is a fresh departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title from a story of sight miraculously regained, this... -
Trees be Company: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: $12.84$9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098977Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
Tennyson Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: $15.48$10.89This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." There are extracts from all the major masterpieces-"Idylls of the King," "The Princess,"... -
The Funny Side by Wendy Cope
RRP: $14.18$9.44In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole... -
Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: $21.92$13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692260Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: $14.18$10.02This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924... -
Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
RRP: $16.76$11.61Basil Bunting was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger writers, the Northumbrian master poet had to wait over 30... -
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9781853264023
RRP: $6.44$4.98With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power... -
Selected Poems by Lars Gustafsson
RRP: $15.48$10.80Poet, novelist, and philosopher Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016) was one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness and the relationship between personal experience and self-awareness, imbued... -
Selected Poems: with parallel German text by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus... -
Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles: A Gardener's Bedside Book - the perfect Mother's Day gift by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: $16.76$10.55'Charming miscellany of rhymes and reflections celebrating the garden'CHOICE***The perfect bedside book for the green-fingered - hilarious and touching poems on a gardening theme written and introduced by the nation's favourite gardener and presenter of... -
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
RRP: $11.60$8.32More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some... -
The Waste Land and Other Writings: and Other Writings by T. S. Eliot 9780375759345
RRP: $9.68$9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759345Author T.S. EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...