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Midnight Letterbox by Edwin Morgan
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €18.34One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and... -
Cathures by Edwin Morgan 9781857546170
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other... -
Play of Gilgamesh by Edwin Morgan 9781857548419
Booksplease Price: €15.76Edwin Morgan's verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily between ritual, comedy and moments of intense... -
The Poetry of Edwin Morgan by James McGonigal
RRP: €8.34Booksplease Price: €7.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841157Author James McGonigalFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
Collected Poems Edwin Morgan 9781857541885
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €22.40To catch "in full sight" is Edwin Morgan's ambition. That fullness he achieves in lyric epiphanies, in the cumulative focuses and refocuses of sequences, in the reification of words in concrete... -
Three Scottish Poets Edwin Morgan 9780862414009
RRP: €14.40Booksplease Price: €10.32MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
The International Companion to Edwin Morgan by Alan Riach
RRP: €29.94Booksplease Price: €24.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980144Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus by Edwin Morgan
Booksplease Price: €23.86Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men. Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time. A declaration of love from his closest... -
Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English by Edwin Morgan 9781857545883
RRP: €10.74Booksplease Price: €8.29This reprint of Morgan's popular and well-respected 1952 modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic captures a taut expression of the poem's themes of danger, voyaging, displacement, loyalty,... -
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Three Scottish Poets by Edwin Morgan 9780862414009 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.40Booksplease Price: €3.22MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac: (Scotnotes Study Guides) John Corbett 9781906841447
RRP: €8.34Booksplease Price: €8.08Edwin Morgan's brilliant Glasgow-based Scots translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the most successful productions in modern Scottish theatre. Fresh, clever and dynamic,... -
Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems by Stewart Conn
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.50An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers... -
Anamnesis by Iona Lee 9781846976322
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €8.78Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining... -
Fetch by Colin Bramwell 9781916751699
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €13.92In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder's fate. Your fetch 'fetches' you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise. Bramwell's... -
New Poems Book Four by Charles Bukowski 9780753510360
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. His slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of gritty urban... -
Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €8.78In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, a woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades... -
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781857540284
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.92The Communicado Theatre's production of this verse rendering won the Edinburgh Fringe First award at the 1992 Festival, and has gone on to tour Scotland and England in 1992-3. Edwin Morgan provides... -
All the Prayers in the House Miriam Nash 9781780373621
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €8.86Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first... -
The Wallace Muse: Poems and Artworks Inspired by the Life and Legend of William Wallace by Lesley Duncan 9781905222292
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.27The Wallace Muse is an anthology of poem and song inspired by William Wallace - one of Scotland's greatest heroes - composed by some of Scotland's greatest writers. Robert Burns, William Wordsworth,... -
Helen And Desire by Alexander Trocchi
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me... -
In Search of Dustie-Fute by David Kinloch
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.13Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search... -
Greengown: New and Selected Poems by David Kinloch 9781800172791
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.72David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'; and Douglas Messerli declared,... -
The Wilderness Party A.B. Jackson 9781780372600
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €8.86With its flighty parables and skewed morality tales, The Wilderness Party is an unforgettable record of turbulent times. These are poems of finely-wrought musicality, bristling energy and playful... -
Fower Pessoas Fernando Pessoa 9781800174641
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.54A bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry into a mixed dialect of Scots and English by an exciting next-generation, prize-winning Scottish poet.About the AuthorFernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was... -
But N Ben A-Go-Go by Matthew Fitt 9781912147502
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.00With strong characters and a gripping plot, the well-defined settings create an atmosphere of paranoia and danger. The exciting denouement has a surprising twist and is set on Schiehallion. The... -
Remedy is None by William McIlvanney
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment... -
This changes things by Claire Askew
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €8.86This changes things was Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women... -
Wi the Haill Voice by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Booksplease Price: €14.42Forty-four years after their first publication, Edwin Morgan's versions of the great twentieth-century Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky are back in print. Wi the haill voice collects twenty-five... -
Me and Ma Gal by Des Dillon
RRP: €8.39Booksplease Price: €6.54A story of boyhood friendship and irrepressible vitality told with the speed of trains and the understanding of the awkwardness, significance and fragility of that time. This is a day in the life of... -
Bevel by William Letford 9781847771926
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.74"Bevel" is William Letford's first book, but his poems have already earned him a large following thanks to his brilliant performances and through Carcanet's "New Poetries V" anthology. Letford makes... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: €10.61The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas... -
City Of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €8.78In this haunting poem from the latter part of the nineteenth century, Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern age's nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation... -
Byssus by Jen Hadfield 9781447241102
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.74Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced 'bissus', and meaning the mussel's 'beard', the tough fibres which... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781906817527
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.27As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
In My Father's House David Kinloch 9781857547665
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11A quick-tempered grandmother is singing; The Mikado is performed in an African village: David Kinloch explores his relationship with his father in unexpected and affectionate terms. An extended... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781906817060
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.74As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781910021446
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.74As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
Rome the Sorceress: La Sorcière de Rome by Andre Frenaud 9781852243180
RRP: €10.74Booksplease Price: €8.11First known for his war-time poems written from a German labour camp - notably his sombre reworkings of the myth of the Magi - Andre Frenaud (1907-1993) is one of the most searching of French poets... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Lean Tales: The Collected Short Stories Agnes Owens 9781846977046
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.54People Like That comprises Agnes Owens' complete life's work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever,...