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Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London) by Richard Maidstone
RRP: £11.50£9.34The poem that Richard Maidstone wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports information about the royal entry that concluded the crisis in greater detail than any other source. The poem is not primarily a report, however; like Maidstone's other... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780141393216
RRP: £18.99£14.01Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99£6.45A.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... -
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding... -
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
RRP: £9.99£6.70**WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023** With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his... -
Paradise Lost: Books 9-10 by John Milton 9780521200677
RRP: £17.25£15.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781840226928
RRP: £4.99£3.46During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now... -
the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace 9781449494162 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.26Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third and final installment in her "women are some kind of magic" series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and... -
the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace
RRP: £11.99£7.59Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid's voice returns in this one - the third and final installment in her "women are some kind of magic" series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780199535743
RRP: £8.99£6.45'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... -
Black Country by Liz Berry
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER 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... -
Pearl: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage 9781631492549
RRP: £11.99£10.03One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his "compulsively readable" translations (New York Times Book Review). A perfect complement to his historic translation of Sir... -
Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
RRP: £9.99£6.99A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019. Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has... -
Selected Poetry by Goethe
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose translation which has been in print continously since then (life sales 43,000).About the AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)... -
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
RRP: £8.99£6.45More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some... -
W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
RRP: £8.99£6.08W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry, plays, essays and libretti, and his ceaseless... -
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet,... -
Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart by Coleman Barks 9780061338168
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is a book of newly-translated Rumi poems, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks, to celebrate Rumi's 800th birthday in 2007, the Year of Rumi. The book will have 90 new poems, 82 of them never-before published in any form. Rumi's poetry, in... -
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman 9780486264684 [USED COPY]
RRP: £2.99£1.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264684Author A. E. HousmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman 9780486264684
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486264684Author A. E. HousmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes by Simon Armitage 9780571384457
RRP: £14.99£9.80Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations... -
Poems Of The Late T'ang by A. C. Graham
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172575Author A. C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Mondeo Man by Luke Wright
RRP: £9.99£6.99A Hornchurch Commuter / The Drunk Train / Thaxted / Get Parochial! / Loughborough / Stansted / Jean-Claude Gendarme / The Ballad of Mr & Mrs P. Cartwright / The Billionaire Princess / The Royal Wedding, 1947 / For Radio / Jeremy, Who Drew Penises on... -
Running Upon The Wires by Kate Tempest
RRP: £11.99£8.60Running Upon The Wires is Kae Tempest's first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one... -
Take Off Your Brave: Poems Just for You by Nadim Shamma
RRP: £12.99£8.60"An enchanting anthology for very young children with gorgeous illustrations." - GuardianEverybody has love. Even baddies. The poems in this book beautifully capture how a four-year-old sees the world - a world of rainbows, glitter and magical boxes; a... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: £18.99£14.01One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with... -
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 by Wendy Cope 9780571240791
RRP: £10.99£7.32The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers... -
John Clare by John Clare
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 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... -
New Collected Poems by David Gascoyne 9781907587375
RRP: £25.00£23.03When David Gascoyne celebrated his seventeenth birthday in Paris in 1933, he already had a poetry collection and a novel to his name. He spent much of the next few years in the French capital associating with Eluard, Dali, Ernst, Breton, Peret and other... -
Poems by Cyprian Norwid
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935744078Author Cyprian NorwidFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 193g -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath 9780571259311
RRP: £12.99£8.56The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are... -
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 9781449496364
RRP: £14.99£9.36A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the... -
Selected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
RRP: £12.99£8.56When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as 'a mirror of England' (Walter... -
Dart by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99£8.56Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9781838573683
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838573683Author Kahlil GibranFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
New and Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
RRP: £16.99£11.58This volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes's writing life, and some new work. ... -
Zafarnama by Guru Gobind Singh 9780143425557
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143425557Author Guru Gobind Singh and Navtej SarnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
Selected Poems: with parallel German text by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus... -
A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology by Lily Dunn
RRP: £9.99£6.68Featuring a foreword by Will SelfWe'll all experience recovery at some point in our lives, whether from addiction, physical illness, mental health issues or loss. Many of us heal, and we may discover ways to live with our changed selves, to reclaim a... -
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
RRP: £10.99£7.32Wendy 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...