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Coal by Audre Lorde 9780393314861
RRP: $28.28$22.62Coal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." Marilyn... -
The Love I Do To You by Whelan Mariah
RRP: $21.43$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477876Author Mariah WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: $43.86$31.08The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012 Richard Murphy 9781852249861
RRP: $23.40$15.60Richard Murphy (1927-2018) was one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished' clarity. He emerged in the 1950s with John Montague... -
The Sight of A Goose Going Barefoot by U. S. Dhuga
RRP: $21.43$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335375Author U.S DhugaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681884Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten by Will Alexander
RRP: $21.43$14.27FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying... -
A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens by Eleanor Cook
RRP: $62.40$56.80Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and... -
The Arriere-pays by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $37.05$32.37Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. At last, we have the long-awaited English translation of his celebrated work "L'Arriere-Pays", which takes us to the... -
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Peter Porter
RRP: $25.33$16.69In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's... -
Rego Retold: Poems in Response to Works by Paula Rego by Owen Lowery 9781784100032
RRP: $25.33$17.43As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the 'pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing'. Into this pause, Owen... -
Somehow by Helen Calcutt
RRP: $14.63$10.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565429Author Helen CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press -
The Visitations by Kathryn Simmonds 9781781721162
RRP: $17.53$12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721162Author Kathryn SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 105g -
Raking Light by Eric Langley 9781784103323
RRP: $19.48$13.63Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First Collection 2017. Raking Light is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems... -
The Inventors: And Other Poems by Rene Char
RRP: $31.20$26.99One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French poetry." Translated by Mark Hutchinson, The Inventors is a companion volume to Char's critically acclaimed Hypnos. It... -
The Earthly Paradise of William Morris by Clare Gibson 9781840132458
$3.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840132458Author Clare GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Grange Books LtdPublisher Grange Books Ltd -
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems C. D. Wright 9781852247621
RRP: $23.40$16.38C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her... -
Poetry in (e)motion: The Illustrated Words of Scroobius Pip by Scroobius Pip
$16.09One of the UK's most exciting up-and-coming hip-hop artists, Scroobius Pip is a master of the spoken word lyric. From his childhood musings in the school playground to his feelings on the rat race, Pip has selected from his online fan collective artistic... -
City of Departures by Helen Tookey 9781784107598
RRP: $19.48$13.63Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel-Child, an `exceptional volume ... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright)... -
The Song Weigher by Egill Skallagrimsson
RRP: $19.48$13.63Egill Skallagrimsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's... -
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth Ruth Padel 9780701188160
RRP: $27.28$19.01'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern... -
Curious Affinities by Sophie Chauhan 9781914221262
$25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221262Author Sophie ChauhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press -
The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs du mal) Charles Baudelaire 9781631498596
RRP: $42.88$36.95Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian bohemian Charles Baudelaire, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the... -
The Poems of Dorothy Molloy by Dorothy Molloy
RRP: $33.13$22.58Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark... -
A Poet's Notebook: with new poems, obviously by Stewart Henderson
RRP: $19.48$14.72A Poet's notebook... with new poems...obviously... includes not just recent favourites, television and radio commissioned poems, some freshly minted verse written especially for this book but also notes and gives the background on how, why, and where the... -
The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Aemilia Lanyer 9780195083613
RRP: $78.96$55.34Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as... -
Bitter Sweet Love by Michael Faudet 9781449481018
RRP: $23.38$14.80Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet, author of Dirty Pretty Things, a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's whimsical and often erotic writing... -
The Great Escape by Jenny Berry 9781838114923
RRP: $16.77$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838114923Author Jenny BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Soulful GroupPublisher Soulful GroupWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm -
Deep Lane by Mark Doty 9780224099837
RRP: $19.50$13.88Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks away from nothing'. In the poems of Deep Lane the... -
Strong In the Rain Kenji Miyazawa 9781852247812
RRP: $23.40$15.60Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at 37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved children's author whose magical tales have been translated into... -
Footnotes to Water by Zoe Skoulding 9781781725269
RRP: $19.48$13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725269Author Zoe SkouldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky 9788086264387
RRP: $38.03$32.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264387Author Jindrich StyrskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)... -
No Words and other poems by Glen Oglaza 9781800169708
RRP: $13.63$10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800169708Author Glen OglazaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik
RRP: $29.23$23.79Revered 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... -
Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Box Set: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer 9780147505606
RRP: $113.10$79.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147505606Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1760Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 2041gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm *... -
Revolving Door by William Sharp 9781398497221
RRP: $13.63$10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398497221Author William SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems by Louise Gluck
RRP: $48.75$27.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780374604103Author Louise GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher... -
Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems by Harry Martinson
RRP: $23.40$15.60Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time,... -
Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral 9780226531915
RRP: $46.80$44.91Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in... -
Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him by Kevin Connolly
$32.74The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted...