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Over 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...

** A Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller **Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject.Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance...

'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' Boston GlobeIn Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the...

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN 'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG 'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe bestselling collection of...

A beautiful collection from much-loved poet Pam Ayres, compiling her best verse dedicated to animals, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon. Now a Sunday Times bestseller. 'Oh WHY must you bark at the postman? Why must you batter my ears? I know it seems rum But...

Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA beautiful book to connect us after such a challenging time.'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm brings huge and...

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of...

'It was with aweThat I beheldFresh leaves, green leaves,Bright in the sun'When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away...

'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726457Author Polly AtkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

A NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD SILVER WINNER Because adults need picture books too! In Amber Fossey's (AKA @Zeppelinmoon) beautiful first book, we are each reminded to listen, to look, to...

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It was ground-breaking in its subject matter and in its direct, unembellished style. Part of the Macmillan...

**WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2019**'Alice Oswald is at the height of her powers in...this electrifying new work' Observer ...

This enchanting collection of more than 80 poems captures the essence of the natural world, as seen through the eyes of Scotland's beloved bard. Each chapter explores a different aspect of nature - from wild, mossy mountains and glens to murmuring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692352Author Satish KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press

R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate.* Introduction by a leading author or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176372180Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739824501Author HemsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Wildmark PublishingPublisher Wildmark PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Conamara in the West of Ireland has a strange and beautiful landscape - a landscape of intense contrasts uniquely dependent on light and shade. In daylight, a subtle radiance of gentle colours envelops the place. Yet on the threshold of darkness, the...

Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a prominent New England family and educated at Amherst Academy and...

Sometimes it's difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace, drawing on invaluable lessons from nature...

As 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...

'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - GuardianThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in Earth Prayers span...

American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune...

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world -...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949540376Author Amy RoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Steel Toe BooksPublisher Steel Toe BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader...

'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection of poetry chosen by Aoibhin Garrihy to uplift and inspire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739824532Author Becky HemsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wildmark PublishingPublisher Wildmark PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015 and Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594649Author Ellen BassFormat PaperbackPage...

The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones.Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528717472Author Edna St Vincent MillayFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm *...

A remarkable new book in praise of marine fauna. Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone. In a sequence of 46 poems, Burnett captures the...

There is a divine restlessness in the human heart today, an eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are. Now, in this exquisitely crafted, inspirational book, John O'Donohue explores that...

Abrao's work has been described by The Outline as "an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts" that "publicly grapples with pillars of its own existence within the influencer economy." Alongside The Outline, her work has been featured in publications...

Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals,...