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Black Country by Liz Berry
RRP: €15.46€10.82WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014*PBS Recommendation 2014*'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...'In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems... -
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara 9780872860353
RRP: €8.32€5.81Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to... -
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: €13.08€9.17Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose TremainThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our... -
Tyger, Tyger by William Blake
RRP: €3.57€2.96'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?'A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first... -
This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A.E. Stallings
RRP: €19.03€13.59Winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023. Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize 2022. The Poetry Book Society Winter Special Commendation 2022. 'The ancients taught me how to sound modern,' A.E. Stallings said in an interview... -
The Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake 9781853264528
RRP: €5.94€4.12Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted... -
Selected Poems by Lars Gustafsson
RRP: €14.28€9.52Poet, 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... -
Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
RRP: €13.08€8.71Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous,... -
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand 9780241639795
RRP: €20.22€14.61An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a... -
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
RRP: €13.08€8.71Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring... -
The Arctic by Don Paterson
RRP: €17.84€11.66'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love... -
Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: €10.70€7.68From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets.This volume includes extensive... -
Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles: A Gardener's Bedside Book - the perfect Mother's Day gift by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: €15.46€10.23'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... -
Selected Poems Bernard O'Donoghue by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: €17.84€13.03Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, Bernard O'Donoghue's poems have long captivated readers with their lyricism, their grace and with what John Burnside has called their 'scrupulous honesty'. This judicious selection, made by the author himself,... -
Selected Poems by John Wilmot Rochester
RRP: €11.89€8.46'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his... -
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz 9780571368860
RRP: €13.08€8.71FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYWhen My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: €15.46€11.29A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically... -
Collected Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
RRP: €22.60€15.27Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famousWar Poemsof 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight... -
Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod 9780872201798
RRP: €15.46€12.84"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its... -
The Sonnets: A Dual-Language Edition With Parallel Text by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: €18.94€14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143106012Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Come on Everybody by Adrian Mitchell
RRP: €29.75€19.97Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to his final collection, Tell Me Lies (2008). His poetry's simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a... -
The Dark Between Stars by Atticus Poetry
RRP: €20.22€14.21Now a New York Times bestsellerFrom the internationally bestselling author of LOVE HER WILD comes THE DARK BETWEEN STARS, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.Atticus has... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: €10.70€7.68A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with... -
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
RRP: €13.08€8.33As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
Complete Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: €22.60€17.39Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and... -
We British: The Poetry of a People by Andrew Marr 9780008130893
RRP: €11.89€8.95More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of... -
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: €13.08€11.15New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat - a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths." ... -
A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost by Robert Frost
RRP: €23.79€15.78Apologies 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... -
The Advantages of Nearly Dying by Michael Rosen
RRP: €10.70€7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772291Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg 9780520272460
RRP: €45.22€35.51This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on... -
Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things by Amanda Lovelace
RRP: €11.89€7.63in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems.within these pages, you will find that... -
Over the Moon by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: €14.28€9.52Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement,... -
Panic Response by John McCullough 9781913850050
RRP: €11.89€8.32*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* From the mercurial mind of award-winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780199535743
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world... Sing heavenly muse' From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is... -
Metamorphoses: Bks.1-8, v. 3 by Ovid
RRP: €29.69€29.48The poetry of change.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the... -
A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse by William Shakespeare
RRP: €13.08€8.71For this new edition, first published in 1971, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to restore to the common reader much of what, in Shakespeare,... -
Midnight Feasts: Tasty poems chosen by A.F. Harrold by A.F. Harrold
RRP: €17.84€13.03The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imaginable. Food is the one thing that unites us all - across time, nations and peoples. From chocolate,... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780141394633
RRP: €22.60€16.67Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise... -
England's Green by Zaffar Kunial
RRP: €15.46€10.19SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONZaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so... -
Staying Alive by Neil Astley
RRP: €15.46€10.71Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations...