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Can’t Believe I’m Saying This to My Mum: Mark Wheeller Contemporary Duologues by Mark Wheeller
RRP: $23.38$15.60A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances. It includes duologues from: ... -
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Robert Frost
RRP: $31.20$17.78Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken"A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple... -
Poems for the Millennium, Volume One: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude by Jerome Rothenberg
RRP: $68.25$56.04As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. "Poems for the Millennium" captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very... -
Walking Gloucestershire with Ivor Gurney: Poetry & landscape explored through 20 circular walks by Eleanor Rawling 9781910839683
RRP: $31.18$26.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839683Author Eleanor RawlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Complete Poems by Salvatore Quasimodo 9781800171084
RRP: $38.98$27.38Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. The citation declares, 'his lyrical poetry with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time'. Jack Bevan's authoritative translation of Quasimodo... -
From Our Own Fire by William Letford 9781800173439
RRP: $29.23$22.13A The Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year. This prose and poetry tour de force of storytelling has the narrative punch of a novel. It is a new departure for the poet, and for poetry itself. It takes the reader into the not-too-distant future: an... -
The Department of Lost Wishes by Henry Normal 9781999670719
RRP: $19.50$16.09The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works. "Distinctly funny" - Time Out "Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit" - The Guardian "Witty and uncannily... -
The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad by Homer
$31.92War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved... -
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
RRP: $48.75$33.13Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a... -
The Song of Lunch by Christopher Reid
RRP: $25.33$16.69Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone . . .Christopher Reid's poem, which since its first publication has been filmed by the BBC... -
This Present Moment: New Poems by Gary Snyder
RRP: $29.23$16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027381Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead Sam M. Intrator (Smith College) 9780787988692
RRP: $37.05$24.86Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work. The... -
Old Food by Ed Atkins
RRP: $19.48$13.07From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins' Old Food lurches from allegory to... -
Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997 by Dodie Bellamy
RRP: $42.88$29.70In the twenty years that followed America's bicentennial, narrative writing was re-formed, reflecting new political and sexual realities. With the publication of this anthology, the New Narrative era bounds back to life, ripe with dramatic propulsion and... -
Selected Poems by Colette Bryce
RRP: $33.13$24.32Shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers' WeekThrough four highly acclaimed collections, Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of the younger generation of Irish poets... -
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets Rupert Brooke 9781399614061
RRP: $15.58$10.92If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are two of the best-loved poets from the heroic lost generation of the... -
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
RRP: $21.43$15.46Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly... -
Tristan/Yseult by Harry Bonelle 9781911397908
RRP: $29.25$21.06A duel on an empty island sets the course for one of the greatest romances ever told. As the lovers of legend meet, something new is born, and something eternal is revealed. Their names will forever be spoken as one. This modern retelling of Tristan and... -
The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound 9780811213264
RRP: $46.78$38.71Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it-in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos... -
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross 9780199548828
RRP: $38.98$30.07Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, are represented in this stunning new... -
The Lunatic: Poems by Charles Simic
$18.92From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself. This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America's most celebrated... -
Selected Poems: Peter France by Aleksandr Blok
RRP: $19.40$16.17Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve" has claims to being the first great poem of the... -
Edward Young: Night Thoughts by Edward Young 9780521069670
RRP: $87.73$65.64During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This... -
The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 by Robert Lowell 9780374538279
RRP: $23.38$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538279Author Robert LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
William Blake by James Fenton
RRP: $11.68$8.23In 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... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $25.33$17.73Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic... -
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
RRP: $31.18$17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430379Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Selected Poetry by John Keats
RRP: $17.53$12.58John Keats's abiding poetic legacy is one of extraordinary and triumphant richness. Before the moment of `self-will' when he declared his intention to be a poet, Keats (1795-1821) had chosen the medical profession. His apothecary's training... -
Power Politics: Poems by Margaret Atwood 9781487004552
RRP: $21.43$14.39When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the... -
Welsh Classics Series, The:1. Dafydd Ap Gwilym - Poems Dafydd ap Gwilym 9780850888157
$38.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850888157Author Dafydd ap GwilymFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780872207547
RRP: $25.33$21.57Readers 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... -
Little Gods by Jacob Polley 9780330444200
$20.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
My After All: Poems and Prose on Motherhood by Jessica Urlichs 9780473622855
RRP: $33.13$29.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473622855Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Jessica UrlichsPublisher Jessica UrlichsWeight(grams) 354g -
The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Vol I: "Love is the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 9781787374645
RRP: $19.97$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374645Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Dear Mother by Bunmi Laditan 9780778308461
RRP: $31.18$19.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778308461Author Bunmi LaditanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 155mm * 15mm -
On Purpose by Nick Laird
RRP: $21.43$14.27Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, 'doing more, in its range and ambition,' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, 'than any first collection I can think of in at least the last ten years.'... -
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by Walter Whitman 9780486456768
RRP: $7.78$5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486456768Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill 9780593085660
RRP: $31.20$24.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593085660Author Nikita GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju by Sascha Aurora Akhtar 9781912915279
RRP: $12.68$9.24The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju is a collection of colourful, energetic poems which revel in language. Using experimental forms and punctuation, with snippets of lines exploded across the page, Akhtar drags the reader into a world of magic, heat, life and..... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 3: Paradiso by Robert M. Durling
RRP: $64.33$45.57One of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators, Robert Durling's rendition of the third and final volume of Dante's masterful literary epic is now available in paperback. As with the two preceding volumes, Durling's precise and powerful...