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A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost by Robert Frost
RRP: $41.98$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684126606Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 823gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica) by Apollonius of Rhodes
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, it is a major product of the... -
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9781847496119
RRP: $18.88$13.55Describing 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... -
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $6.30$5.23'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... -
Collected Poems, Volume Three by Henry Normal 9781739623111
RRP: $37.70$28.94Includes 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... -
Beyond Tuesday Morning: Sequel to the Bestselling One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury 9780310257714
RRP: $23.08$17.41The hope-filled sequel to the bestselling One Tuesday Morning In this new novel by Karen Kingsbury, three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has... -
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
RRP: $52.50$37.84Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose... -
Brand New Ancients by Kate Tempest
RRP: $20.98$13.94Kae 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 Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: $20.98$14.93'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history... -
Selected Poems by Deceased Bertolt Brecht 9780156806466
RRP: $42.00$29.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156806466Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm... -
Let Them Eat Chaos: Mercury Prize Shortlisted by Kate Tempest
RRP: $25.18$18.06SHORTLISTED 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... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $27.28$17.98Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry,... -
Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
RRP: $10.48$7.83William 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,... -
Treatise on the Whole-World: by Edouard Glissant Celia Britton 9781789621310
RRP: $48.28$43.51This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonization, as a multiplicity of... -
How to be a Bomb by Andy Fletcher 9781903110300
RRP: $18.80$11.07Apologies 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 -
Lord Byron - The Major Works by Lord George Gordon Byron
RRP: $29.38$21.32This 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... -
The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes 9780571351176
RRP: $27.28$17.98This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. The Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival... -
Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection Pam Ayres 9781846077937
RRP: $27.28$19.09The 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... -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow... -
The Tain: From the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Louis Le Brocquy
RRP: $25.18$17.70The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their... -
Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
RRP: $27.28$18.06Basil 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... -
Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $27.28$17.81One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. "If you... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke
RRP: $18.88$13.55At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely... -
I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan 9781526665867
RRP: $20.98$14.07The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam 'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds a way to let it all be holy' Victoria... -
Where Hope Comes From: Healing poetry for the heart, mind and soul Nikita Gill 9781398702769
RRP: $31.48$20.58'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... -
All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols
RRP: $31.48$20.37A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection of poetry and prose invites you to stumble into the sunlight and delight in the wild and boundless grace... -
Kit by Megan Barker
RRP: $27.28$18.06'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: $31.48$23.00Diaspora 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... -
Trees be Company: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: $20.90$14.87Apologies 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 -
Go Giants by Nick Laird
RRP: $23.08$15.37To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In... -
Tennyson Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: $25.20$17.72This 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,"... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: $23.08$16.32This 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... -
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue 9780571314492
RRP: $35.68$24.32For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer's Iliad. The volumes that appeared from War... -
The Iron Wolf: Collected Animal Poems Vol 1 by Ted Hughes
RRP: $21.00$14.09The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur.The rusty Moon rolls through the sky.The iron river cannot stir.The iron wind leaks out a cryAnimals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young... -
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9781853264023 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48$4.81With 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... -
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 9781853264023
RRP: $10.48$8.11With 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 Lars Gustafsson 9781852249977
RRP: $25.20$16.80Poet, 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... -
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish 9780520273030
RRP: $52.50$41.14Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has... -
Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles: A Gardener's Bedside Book - the perfect Mother's Day gift by Alan Titchmarsh 9781529311150 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$3.93'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... -
Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles: A Gardener's Bedside Book - the perfect book for gardening self-isolators Alan Titchmarsh 9781529311150
RRP: $27.28$18.06'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...