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Everything I Don't Know by Jerzy Ficowski 9781954218994
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218994Author Jerzy FicowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books -
Letters Home by Jennifer Wong
RRP: £9.99£6.99Letters Home, Jennifer Wong's remarkable and vivid third collection of poems, unravels the complexities of being between nations, languages and cultures. Travelling across multiple borders of history and place, these poems examine what it means to be... -
Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo 9781784105549
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metaphor, description, and dance. They tend... -
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich 9780393313987
RRP: £13.50£11.21A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to extend the... -
The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon
RRP: £10.99£7.32Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives... -
Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Collected Early Books of Bernadette Mayer by Bernadette Mayer 9781581771350
RRP: £34.95£27.78Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Bernadette Mayer has been one of the most influential poets of the late 20th century and into the present. Her celebrated and revolutionary first books have long been out of print,... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: £20.00£14.29Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the characters, the motifs and the moments that set his... -
The Penguin Book Of The Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English by Phillis Levin 9780140589290
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589290Author Phillis LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver 9781594204777
RRP: £27.00£16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781594204777Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin Putnam... -
Blackish by Tyrone Lewis 9781911570677
£14.01From family to relationships to race, we all have different factors which contribute to our overall identity. Blackish explores the complexity of Identity, whether it be how one identifies themselves, or how their identity is perceived by others... -
Burning Books by Jess Green 9781909136625
RRP: £9.99£6.99The first collection by poet Jess Green is taken from her spoken word show set in an inner city secondary school suffering the cuts and blows of the Coalition government. Burning Books champions the underdogs; the unnoticed and unheard stories bearing... -
28 Paradises Patrick Modiano 9781644230022
RRP: £8.95£6.1828 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple's creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises ... -
A Pocketbook of Wry by B Germain 9781665741248
£8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665741248Author B GermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Fetch Your Mother's Heart by Lisa Luxx 9781838021177
RRP: £11.99£8.29A lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and... -
Contains Mild Peril: 2019 by Fran Lock 9781916046856
RRP: £10.00£7.00Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate - political, environmental,... -
The Psalms in Haiku Form: A Simplified Psalter by Richard Gwyn 9780852443538 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852443538Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm -
The Psalms in Haiku Form: A Simplified Psalter by Richard Gwyn 9780852443538
£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852443538Author Richard GwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm -
The Darkness Around Us is Deep by William Stafford 9780060969165
RRP: £17.99£11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060969165Author William StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Dressing for the Afterlife by Maria Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.99Dressing for the Afterlife is a diamond-tough and tender second collection of poems from British Cypriot poet Maria Taylor, which explores love, life, and how we adapt to the passage of time. From the steely glamour of silent film-star goddesses to... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: £38.00£31.01In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
Greekling by Kostya Tsolakis 9781913437824
RRP: £10.99£7.64Greekling,the much-anticipated debut poetry collection by Kostya Tsolakis, celebrates and commemorates damaged and rejected Greek bodies, be they of flesh and blood, made of marble, or natural bodies. In intertwining Greek culture, history and poetic... -
Selected Poems Muriel Rukeyser 9781852249908
RRP: £12.00£8.00The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change and family life. Rukeyser was a social activist... -
How You Might Know Me: 2016 by Sabrina Mahfouz 9780993103865
RRP: £8.00£5.70How You Might Know Me is a poetic exploration of four women s lives, connected through their experience in different areas of the UK s growing sex industry. Written following years of workshops and Sabrina s own experience of working in strip-clubs, the... -
Woman Killed with Kindness by A. Heywood
RRP: £15.99£15.37The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 1936-1938 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £50.00£48.41Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The... -
Still Point: Poems and Meditations by Richard L Graves 9780998060378
RRP: £13.00£7.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998060378Author Richard L GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Richard L. GravesPublisher Richard L. GravesWeight(grams) 104g -
Thirty Poets Go to the Gym by George Szirtes 9781907598616
RRP: £6.95£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598616Author George SzirtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
Alisoun Sings by Caroline Bergvall 9781643620015
RRP: £12.99£8.63Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic, proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way across narratives of genders, and addresses the brutality of social conventions with caustic humor. This labyrinthine text... -
On God and Man (Gregory) Nazianzus St Gr 9780881412208
RRP: £12.99£9.09St Gregory's poetry is open and self-revealing and has personal character. In these poems he speaks of the joys and frustrations of his own life; he reveals his inner questioning about the purpose and value of life in the face of sin and mortality; and... -
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems - Bilingual Edition by C. P. Cavafy 9780691141244
RRP: £25.00£22.82C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems... -
Poems That Touch the Heart by A.L. Alexander
RRP: £23.00£16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385044011Author A.L. AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Fortunate: A Book of Poetry by Kim Rashidi
RRP: £9.99£6.41Based on the rider-waite-smith tarot cards, this book dives into the world of tarot through delicate and illuminating poetry that stirs the soul.Inside this book, you will find 78 poems, one for each card in the Major and Minor Arcana-all a poetic... -
Be Feared by Jane Burn 9781913437275
RRP: £9.99£6.99Jane Burn's new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from the Snow Queen to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of... -
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
£22.83Born in India and considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a two-time Nobel nominee and winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. His evening readings in Hindi/Urdu-speaking regions drew thousands of... -
Learning Springsteen on my language app by Sarah Salway 9781912876761
RRP: £9.50£7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876761Author Sarah SalwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing -
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
RRP: £30.00£29.25In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the... -
The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£7.27With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers.The Drowned Book is a... -
Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton 9781586170301
RRP: £14.95£9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586170301Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press -
Toll by Luke Wright
RRP: £9.99£7.63An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; and a young woman dreams of leaving home. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: £9.95£6.97Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable...