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Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac 9780872860643
RRP: £7.99£5.50Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS... -
Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction by Jared Singer 9781943735617
RRP: £16.00£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735617Author Jared SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm -
The Mirabelles by Annie Freud
RRP: £9.99£7.27Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a... -
Writing for Our Lives: A collection of poetry by people with experience of mental health or drug and alcohol problems by Turning Point
RRP: £9.50£6.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908779595Author Turning PointFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Step Beach PressPublisher Step Beach Press -
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik
RRP: £14.99£12.38Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published... -
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
RRP: £15.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465271Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)... -
Bloodlines by Sarah Wimbush
RRP: £5.00£3.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725948Author Sarah WimbushPage Count 32Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert by Francesca Cioni 9780198874409
RRP: £80.00£73.06George Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling. Habitual providential and typological interpretation imbued matter with meaning, and connected it with the rest of... -
A Fly Girl's Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power by Odelia Younge
RRP: £15.99£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565146Author Odelia YoungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot's Life and Writings by Ann Pasternak Slater
RRP: £35.00£23.83The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan
RRP: £42.00£40.12A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including... -
The Georgics: A Poem of the Land by Virgil
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the greatest poems of the classical world, Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation.'Georgic' means 'to work the earth', and this poetic guide... -
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing by Mary Webb 9780994430663
RRP: £9.95£8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994430663Author Mary WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm -
Far Field by Jim Carruth
RRP: £10.00£6.53Far Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles... -
Storm by Tim Minchin 9781409156253
RRP: £14.99£10.23Dazzling illustrated poetry from the magical mind of Tim Minchin. This is his first ever book and features a foreword from Neil Gaiman.A storm is brewing in the confines of a London dinner party. Small talk quickly descends into a verbal and intellectual... -
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... -
afterlove by Mario Petrucci
RRP: £9.99£6.99When it comes to those we love, even our most yearned-for states of union are subject to change. afterlove endures the swarming devastations of loss as consummately as it enters love's raptures, ever alive to devotion's flow and ebb. From domestic paean... -
Collected Poems: 1974-2004 by Rita Dove 9780393354935
RRP: £14.99£13.03Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume... -
The Divine Comedy: Anniversary Edition by Dante Alighieri 9781847498762
RRP: £12.99£9.09Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones... -
Translating Mountains by Yvonne Reddick 9781781724200
RRP: £5.00£3.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724200Author Yvonne ReddickPage Count 28Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
RRP: £25.00£20.59One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780872207547
RRP: £12.99£11.06Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than... -
Reading Poetry: A Complete Coursebook by Tom Furniss
£33.02Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills... -
Emily Dickinson by Ted Hughes
RRP: £8.99£6.08In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
100 Poems by Umberto Saba 9781800171930
RRP: £14.99£10.77Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a sparse education but was writing distinctive poetry before he was twenty,... -
White Ghosts by Katie Hale
RRP: £10.99£7.64White Ghosts, the debut collection by poet and novelist Katie Hale, traces maternal lines, and the legacies of slavery and whiteness interwoven into the fabric of America, through revealing, unflinching poems. Travelling deep into an intimate history... -
Jinx by Abigail Parry
RRP: £9.95£6.78Jinx: A ruinous charm, a quickdraw curse, a knight's move. Abigail Parry's first collection is concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from moth-camouflage and stage magic, from the... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: £12.00£8.00During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang... -
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
RRP: £8.99£6.45John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few... -
The Divan of Hafez: A Bilingual Text Persian-English by Khaja Shamsuddin Mohammad Hafez 9780761822462
RRP: £74.00£65.44Khaja Shamsuddin Mohammad Hafez (1327-1390 C.E.) was born in Shiraz, a city in Southwest Iran where he lived his entire life. The elegance, beauty, and delicacy of his poetry have made him the most beloved poet of the Persian-speaking world. Hafez... -
Thebaid: A Song of Thebes by Publius Papinius Statius
RRP: £27.99£24.54The clarity of Joyce's translation highlights the poem's superb versification, sophisticated use of intertextuality, and bold formal experimentation and innovation. A substantial introduction and annotations make this epic accessible to students of all... -
Selected Poems by Rita Dove
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750802Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9780300080278
£20.24In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that... -
While We're Here by Philipp Frohnapfel 9780645133400
RRP: £7.95£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645133400Author Philipp FrohnapfelFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Thorpe-BowkerPublisher Thorpe-BowkerWeight(grams) 213g -
The Print Museum by Heidi Williamson
RRP: £9.95£6.78In her second collection, printer's daughter Heidi Williamson mines the rich language and history of printing to consider themes of belonging, parenthood, love, and how we communicate, and fail to communicate, with each other. Individual, familial, and... -
The Faerie Queene, Book Two by Edmund Spenser 9780872208476
RRP: £14.99£12.59From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance,... -
On Poetry by Jackie Wills 9781914914126
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914126Author Jackie WillsFormat PaperbackImprint SmithDoorstop BooksPublisher SmithDoorstop BooksWeight(grams) 138g -
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett 9780915924608
RRP: £19.95£17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915924608Author Ron PadgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Teachers & Writers CollaborativePublisher Teachers & Writers CollaborativeWeight(grams)... -
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt
RRP: £12.99£8.63There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for... -
Madame Fi Fi's Farewell: And Other Poems by Gerry Cambridge 9781842820056
RRP: £8.99£6.60Madame Fi Fi's Farewell opens with some lively, affecting poems of love and relationships in a variety of voices: an old man wistfully regrets lost opportunities; Madame Fi Fi decides it is time, somewhat ruefully, to hang up her whip; a lovelorn woman...