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Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: $25.20$17.72A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their... -
Why I No Longer Write Poems by Diana Anphimiadi
RRP: $27.28$18.06Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the... -
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
RRP: $20.98$14.07**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... -
Poems by Cyprian Norwid
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies 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 -
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C. Foster
RRP: $23.08$15.23From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as... -
Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell 9781529023237
RRP: $27.28$19.09A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love - gorgeously presented... -
Poems for a world gone to sh*t: the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better Various Poets 9781787471030
RRP: $27.28$18.06DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better.From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Kate... -
A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland-Hunter
RRP: $52.40$35.30365 poems celebrating nature and the changing seasons. This is the perfect bedside companion for any nature or poetry fan, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from less-well-known writers. Each poem is chosen to chime with... -
A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
RRP: $42.00$29.84Allie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology, A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world's greatest ever verse writers.Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family throughout the year, it is bursting at the... -
A Poem for Every Winter Day by Allie Esiri
RRP: $35.68$24.93Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Winter Day, you will find verse that will transport you to sparkling winter scenes, taking you from Christmas, to New Years Eve and the joys of Valentines Day. The poems are... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $31.48$23.00Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
My New Job by Catherine Wagner
RRP: $29.30$20.79With her third collection, Catherine Wagner assumes a mantle of responsibility. Each opportunity for productivity is a personal call-out; she responds, 'diligent and strict'. A repetitive stretching exercise produces sectional meditations on obedience to... -
Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary'Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe,... -
Penguin's Poems for Life by Laura Barber 9780713999617
RRP: $42.00$30.85Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into... -
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
RRP: $41.98$30.83A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great... -
Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters by Nikita Gill
RRP: $31.48$24.23Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters. Wonder at Medusa's potent venom, Circe's fierce sorcery and Athena rising up over Olympus, as Nikita Gill majestically explores the untold stories of the life bringers, warriors, creators, survivors and... -
Penguin's Poems for Life by Laura Barber
RRP: $23.08$16.32Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided... -
Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
RRP: $21.00$16.42*Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize 2021**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021: A 'tour-de-force'**An Irish Times and Poetry School Book of the Year 2020*'A day will come when you won't missthe country na nagluwal sa 'yo.'-... -
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: $25.20$17.72From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty... -
Lumen Tiffany Atkinson 9781780375304
RRP: $23.08$15.54How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes the prize-winning sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of speech and found text from a hospital residency to pay homage... -
Loop of Jade Sarah Howe 9780701188696
RRP: $25.20$17.72*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable... -
Love & Poetry by Atticus
RRP: $35.68$24.23From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars, and The Truth About Magic comes LVOE., a dazzling new journey into the great unknown by Atticus. Featuring over 250 brand new poems, this sees Atticus take his readers... -
The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $23.08$15.23Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven 'essays' by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this new paperback... -
Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781780373904
RRP: $27.28$18.90Staying Human is the sequel to the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies which have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. This fourth Bloodaxe world poetry anthology offers poetry lovers an even broader, international selection... -
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $6.30$5.23'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.Penguin... -
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $20.98$13.94Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.Book InformationISBN 9780876851913Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint... -
Through His Eyes by S Hukr
RRP: $42.00$33.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645349948Author S HukrFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 12mm -
A God at the Door Tishani Doshi 9781780375779
RRP: $23.08$15.54An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, Tishani Doshi's Forward-shortlisted A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: $31.48$20.58Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting... -
Life is Sad and Beautiful: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hussain Manawer 9781529390186
RRP: $35.68$24.23** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **THE DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION FROM THE ORIGINAL MUMMY'S BOY, HUSSAIN MANAWER.'I remember the day I wrote my first ever poem, I was sitting on my bed in the attic and started jotting down lines on this little notepad, little... -
My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet 9781608467679
RRP: $31.48$20.79Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago,... -
The Fat Black Woman's Poems: From the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Grace Nichols 9780860686354
RRP: $23.08$13.59A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021Beautyis a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheekwhile the sun lights up her feetNichols gives us images that stare us... -
Life of the Party: If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems by Olivia Gatwood
RRP: $27.28$19.09____________"I am stirred by the poems in this book - it is a sharp, unflinching collection of poems about girlhood, wonder, casual everyday violence."Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of 'bone' and 'The Terrible'In this multi-faceted collection of odes,... -
Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book by Ana Sampson 9781529058994
RRP: $31.48$23.00Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book is a beautiful gift hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the... -
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy
RRP: $25.20$17.72Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by... -
Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer
RRP: $20.98$14.93The multi-award-winning meditation on survival, care and the place of literature in an unequal world'Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange:Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it.Do you mean nothing at all - just darkness - or a world... -
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry Kayo Chingonyi 9781838855307
RRP: $35.68$24.32A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets... -
Introducing George The Poet: Search Party: A Collection of Poems by George the Poet
RRP: $27.28$19.09'The title is Search Party - the idea being that we're all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.' A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a... -
Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Gaby Morgan
RRP: $18.88$13.86A refreshed cover edition of Gaby Morgan's Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year, the bestselling poetry anthology with over a quarter of a million copies sold. This anthology is perfect for sharing with the all the family - it contains a poem for... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $27.28$19.09A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple...